Still Philadelphia : a photographic history, 1890-1940 / Fredric M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, Allen F. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Fredric, author.

Contributor:

Vogel, Morris J.

Davis, Allen Freeman, 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Pictorial works.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Manners and customs.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 290 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1983.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This is a book about Philadelphia and about photography, but it is not the usual book about either. On one level, this is the pictorial story of a great industrial metropolis in transition. It is the story of a railroad city, a city of trolleys and subways and horse-drawn vehicles, as it gradually succumbed to the automobile. It is the story of a city filled with neighborhood industry giving way to suburbs, to commuter travel, and to a change in the very nature of work. It is the story of a city spreading out, expanding and doubling in population in fifty years. It is the story of urba.

Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The City of the 1890s; Immigrant Havens; Workshop of the World; The Vision of Reform; A Gallery of Faces; Technologies of Change; The Rise of the Downtown; The New Philadelphia; The City of the 1930s; Sources; Index.

Notes:

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Miller, Fredric. Still Philadelphia.

ISBN:

9781439907610

1439907617

OCLC:

719383022

Publisher Number:

10.2307/j.ctt1bw1jpb

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.