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American Bandstand

Art Colonies

Art Deco

Art of Cecilia Beaux

Art of Dox Thrash

Art of Thomas Eakins

Arts and Crafts Movement

Arts of Wharton Esherick

Athenæum of Philadelphia

Avenue of the Arts

Ballet

Barnes Foundation

Birch’s Views of Philadelphia

Book Publishing and Publishers

Cartoons and Cartoonists

Centennial Exhibition (1876)

Ceramics

Children’s Theater
In Philadelphia, the theater capital of the United States until New York overtook it in the 1830s, an array of children’s theater activity has long sparked creativity and imagination, informed, and educated young people with live performances. Early staged productions for the entire family increasingly gave way to child-specific theater combining education with entertainment. In the twentieth century, the children’s theater company grew to include commercial and non–commercial professional productions, non–professional ⇒ Read More
Classical Music

Coffeehouses

Dancing Assembly

Doo Wop

Elegy (for MOVE and Philadelphia)

Godey’s Lady’s Book

Gothic Literature

Greeks and Greece (Modern)

Gross Clinic (The)

Hail, Columbia

Historical Societies

Jazz

Junto

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Laurel Hill Cemetery

Liberia; Or, Mr. Peyton’s Experiments

Listen to the Mocking Bird

Literary Societies

Magazines, Literary

Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago, and Teague O’Regan, his Servant

Murals

Musical Fund Society

My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free

Opera and Opera Houses

Orchard Window (The)

Painters and Painting

Peale Family of Painters

Peale’s Philadelphia Museum

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia Orchestra

Philadelphia Sketch Club

Philadelphia Ten

Plays and Playwrights

Plays of Susanna Rowson

Poetry and Poets

Printmaking

Radio DJs

Recording Industry

Red City (The)

Red Rose Girls

Rhythm and Blues

Rock and Roll (Early Years)

Rocky

Staircase Group (The)

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)
