Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Advertising card from an exhibition of the Herring-Curtiss "Golden Flyer" in which Glenn Curtiss had won the first Gordon Bennett trophy at Rheims. The exh... |
Date: | 1976 |
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Description: | Demonstration by members of the Philadelphia chapter of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, one year after the war ended. |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 2-ton monorail hoist in the William Wharton Jr. & Co. rail storage house. There's a man in the cab and the text on the cab reads "P... |
Date: | 02 10 1913 |
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Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton type "M" auxiliary hoist at the Belmont Iron Works. A man wearing a hat is in the cab. The monorail hoist crane, used in stee... |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | Daniel Chester French's statue commemorating the American Revolutionary War general, Marquis de Lafayette. Installed circa, 1921, the bronze stands in fro... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | An interior view of a hotel lobby, filled with chairs and other furniture, plants, columns, and several men standing in the background. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | A view of a hotel lobby filled with chairs and other furniture, plants, columns, and several men standing in the background. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Front view of the Block House, built in 1880, at the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. The United States flag waves on a pole atop the Block House.... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Front view of the Block House, the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. Men sit on benches along both sides of a path leading to the house, with a fla... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | A view of a The Soldiers' Monument, erected on November 1, 1865 by Dan Rice, a famous circus man. The memorial is said to be the first built honoring the s... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | A postcard view of the church with two images. The first is an exterior view of the building, with two sides visible. Each side has a door flanked by windo... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | A view of the rotunda at Fonthill Castle, with the floors decorated with parquetry. Two doorways lead to additional rooms while another in the center is op... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of desks which are arranged in rows inside a classroom at St. Xavier's Academy. The teacher's desk is angled in a corner to the righ... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Two men stand near the entrance to the Opera House. Below a central clock tower, signboards advertise upcoming performances, including "Bud Hicks', 'The Ya... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | View uphill toward a group of people posing on and near the porch of Fern Rise, possibly a hotel or inn. Decorations and flags hang from the building's por... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Adults and children sit on park benches surrounding a fountain. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | View down Fifteenth Street. An automobile is parked outside an elaborate mansion. |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, posing standing, with a woman sitting on a sofa at the Barclay Hotel. Between them they are displaying a round gift t... |
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