Rare photographs of City Hall, Logan Square, Independence Hall, Betsy Ross House, other landmarks juxtaposed with contemporary views. Introduction. Captions.

Philadelphia Then and Now: 60 Sites Photographed in the Past and Present

Arts & Photography

Finkel, Kenneth

Oyama, Susan

Photography & Video

Dover Publications

Published in conjunction with an exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, July to December 1994. Examines the innovative design of a large prison, now a historic monument, built in Philadelphia in the 1820s, how that design was based on Quaker reform principles, and how it has influenced hundred of prisons worldwide. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Eastern State Penitentiary: Crucible of Good Intentions

COHEN, Jeffrey A.

Johnston, Norman Bruce

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Insight Philadelphia: Historical Essays Illustrated

Each of the nearly 100 essays in Insight Philadelphia tells a succinct, compelling, and little-known tale of the city’s past. Some stories are quirky, like how early gas stations were designed to resemble classical temples, or the saga of how a museum acquired a 2000-year-old Greek statue, then had it demolished with a sledgehammer. Other stories turn serious, exploring the tragic deaths of child laborers in the city’s textile mills and a century-old case of racial profiling that led to a stationhouse murder. Historian Kenneth Finkel introduces readers to the many brave souls and colorful characters who left their mark on the city, from the Irish immigrant “coal heavers”—who initiated the nation’s first general strike—to the teenage Josephine Baker making a flashy debut on the Philadelphia stage. Illustrated with scores of rare archival images, Insight Philadelphia will give readers a new appreciation for the people and places that make the City of Brotherly Love so unique.

History

Americas

Rutgers University Press

The massive Eastern State Penitentiary in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, now a National Historic Landmark, is remarkable for its innovative architecture and its pioneering system of isolation in individual cells. Heir to the energetic Quaker reformist tradition of the 1820s, the penitentiary was a model of idealism in penal reform and a model of prison architecture for the world, visible in three hundred prisons worldwide that trace their paternity to Eastern State Penitentiary. This book shows how the novel experiment in prison reform contended with the realities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and explores the legacy of this "crucible of good intentions."

Johnson, Norman

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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