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Author | : Harry Kyriakodis |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2011-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625841884 |
Download Philadelphia's Lost Waterfront Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Join Harry Kyriakodis as he strolls Front Street, Delaware Avenue, and Penn's Landing to rediscover the story of Philadelphia's lost waterfront. The wharves and docks of William Penn's city that helped build a nation are gone lost to the onslaught of over 300 years of development. Yet the bygone streets and piers of Philadelphia's central waterfront were once part of the greatest tradecenter in the American colonies. Local historian Harry Kyriakodis chronicles the history of the city's original port district from Quaker settlers who first lived in caves along the Delaware and the devastating yellow fever epidemic of 1793 to its heyday as a maritime center and then the twentieth century that saw much of the historic riverfront razed.
Author | : Harry G. Kyriakodis |
Publisher | : History Press Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781540206244 |
Download A History of Philadelphia's Lost Waterfront Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Harry Kyriakodis |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1614237484 |
Download Northern Liberties Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since the time of William Penn, the Philadelphia neighborhood of Northern Liberties has had a tradition of hard work and innovation. This former Leni-Lenape territory became one of the industrial River Wards of North Philadelphia after being annexed by the city in 1854. The district's mills and factories were powered not just by the Delaware River and its tributaries but also by immigrants from across Europe and the city's largest community of free African Americans. The Liberties' diverse narrative, however, was marred by political and social problems, such as the anti-Irish Nativist Riots of 1844. Local historian Harry Kyriakodis traces over three hundred years of the district's evolution, from its rise as a premier manufacturing precinct to the destruction of much of the original cityscape in the 1960s and its subsequent rebirth as an eclectic and vibrant urban neighborhood. In this first history of Northern Liberties, Kyriakodis unearths the story of this remarkable riverside community.
Author | : Harry Kyriakodis |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439666148 |
Download Underground Philadelphia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explore Philadelphia's relationship with the underground, as old as the city itself, dating back to when Quaker settlers resided in caves alongside the Delaware River more than three hundred years ago. Explore the city under the The City of Brotherly Love, which became a national and world leader in the delivery of water, gas, steam, and electricity during the industrial age. The construction of multiple subway lines within Center City took place during the early twentieth century. An intricate subsurface pedestrian concourse was also developed throughout the downtown area for the city's inhabitants. From Thirtieth Street Station and Reading Terminal to the Commuter Rail Tunnel and transit lines that were never built, Philadelphia's infrastructure history is buried under the earth as much as above. Join authors Harry Kyriakodis and Joel Spivak as they reveal the curious aspects of the Quaker City's underground experience.
Author | : Richard Bell |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501169459 |
Download Stolen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice belongs “alongside the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edward P. Jones, and Toni Morrison” (Jane Kamensky, Professor of American History at Harvard University). Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home. Their ordeal—an odyssey that takes them from the Philadelphia waterfront to the marshes of Mississippi and then onward still—shines a glaring spotlight on the Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers and slave traders who stole away thousands of legally free African Americans from their families in order to fuel slavery’s rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War. “Rigorously researched, heartfelt, and dramatically concise, Bell’s investigation illuminates the role slavery played in the systemic inequalities that still confront Black Americans” (Booklist).
Author | : Harry Kyriakodis |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2014-07-07 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1439646015 |
Download The Benjamin Franklin Parkway Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Benjamin Franklin Parkway has sliced through the Logan Square neighborhood of Center City (downtown) Philadelphia since World War I. Named after Philadelphia's favorite son, the mile-long boulevard begins at city hall and heads diagonally towards Logan Circle before reaching the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The postcards and other images in this work show the parkway's development and its role in Philadelphia's civic and cultural life. Despite often serving as a speedway into and out of town, the Ben Franklin Parkway is a triumph in urban planning that has become a treasured part of the City of Brotherly Love.
Author | : Derek Cox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Urban renewal |
ISBN | : |
Download The Philadelphia Waterfront Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jim Murphy |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2021-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439919240 |
Download Real Philly History, Real Fast Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"An alternative, history-focused guidebook to a selection of Philadelphia's heroes and notable places"--
Author | : Jennifer L. Holm |
Publisher | : Yearling |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2010-01-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375893997 |
Download Boston Jane: An Adventure Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fans of adventure, romance, and a strong heroine will love this this action-packed historical trilogy by three-time Newbery Honor winner and New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Holm. 1855. The unknown wilds of the Pacific Northwest—a land not yet tamed, and certainly not fitting for a proper young lady! Yet that’s just where Miss Jane Peck finds herself. After a tumultuous childhood on the wrong side of Philadelphia high society, Jane is trying to put aside her reckless ways and be accepted as a proper young lady. And so when handsome William Baldt proposes, she joyfully accepts and prepares to join him in a world away from her home in Washington Territory. But Miss Hepplewhite’ s straitlaced finishing school was hardly preparation for the treacherous months at sea it takes to get there, the haunting loss she’ll face on the way, or the colorful characters and crude life that await her on the frontier.
Author | : Charley Rosen |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0803248628 |
Download Perfectly Awful Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
During the 1972–1973 basketball season, the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start after losing their leading scorer and rebounder, Billy Cunningham, as well as head coach Jack Ramsay, they lost twenty-one of their first twenty-three games. A Philadelphia newspaper began calling them the Seventy Sickers, and they duly lost their last thirteen games on their way to a not-yet-broken record of nine wins and seventy-three losses. Charley Rosen recaptures the futility of that season through the firsthand accounts of players, participants, and observers. Although the team was uniformly bad, there were still many memorable moments, and the lore surrounding the team is legendary. Once, when head coach Roy Rubin tried to substitute John Q. Trapp out of a game, Trapp refused and told Rubin to look behind the team’s bench, whereby one of Trapp’s friends supposedly opened his jacket to show his handgun. With only four wins at the All-Star break, Rubin was fired and replaced by player-coach Kevin Loughery. In addition to chronicling the 76ers’ woes, Perfectly Awful also captures the drama, culture, and attitude of the NBA in an era when many white fans believed that the league had too many black players.