Contents » Business, Industry, and Labor
Aeronautics and Aerospace Industry

Airports

Armories

Arsenals

Art Deco

Artisans

Automobiles

Automotive Manufacturing

Bakeries and Bakers

Bank of North America

Bank of the United States (First)

Bank War

Banking

Barbershops and Barbers

Better Philadelphia Exhibition (1947)

Book Publishing and Publishers

Bookselling

Brickmaking and Brickmakers

Brownfields Redevelopment

Buses

Campbell Soup Company

Canals

Carpet Weaving and Rug Making

Casinos

Centennial Exhibition (1876)

Ceramics

Chemical Industry

Chemistry

Chester, Pennsylvania

China Trade

City Merchant (The); or, The Mysterious Failure

Clocks and Clockmakers

Co-Working Spaces

Coal

Coffeehouses

Commercial Museum

Contractor Bosses (1880s to 1930s)

Convention Centers

Cordwainers Trial of 1806

Deindustrialization

Delaware Avenue (Columbus Boulevard)

Delaware Bay

Dentistry and Dentists

Department Stores

Diners

Duffy’s Cut

Edge Cities

Enterprise Zones and Empowerment Zones

Fabric Row

Fashion

Films (Feature)

Flaxseed and Linen
In the colonial era linen and flaxseed were fundamental to the mercantile life of Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. Philadelphia’s linen and flaxseed market extended from the farthest point of settlement, Fort Pitt, to the fields of England and Ireland. Traveling in a circle of trade across the north Atlantic, these goods forged relationships among ⇒ Read More
Flour Milling

Food Processing

Franklin Institute

Free Society of Traders

Furnituremaking

Gallery at Market East

Garment Work and Workers

Gas Stations

General Strike of 1910

General Trades Union Strike (1835)

Gentrification

Girard’s Bequest

Glassmakers and Glass Manufacturing

Great Depression

Greater Philadelphia Movement

Greater Philadelphia Region

Grocery Stores and Supermarkets

Gunpowder Industry

Helicopters

Hinterlands

Home Remedies

Horses

Horticulture

Hospitals (Economic Development)

Hotels and Motels

Ice Hockey (Professional)

Industrial Neighborhoods

Industrial Workers of the World

Inner Suburbs

Insurance

Iron Production

Italian Market

Jewelers Row

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

Knights of Labor

Labor Day

Locomotive Manufacturing

Machining and Machinists

Manufacturing Suburbs

Maps and Mapmaking

March of the Mill Children

Market Street

Medical Publishing

Mercer Museum

Military Bases

Model Cities

Monopoly

Musical Instrument Making

Newspapers (Suburban)

Nuclear Power

Office Buildings

Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC)

Paints and Varnishes

Paper and Papermaking

PATCO

Petty Island

Pharmaceutical Industry

Philadelphia Board of Trade

Philadelphia Contributionship

Philadelphia Cream Cheese

Philadelphia Gas Works

Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC)

Philadelphia Maritime Exchange

Philadelphia Navy Yard

Philadelphia Plan

Philadelphia Stock Exchange

Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) Strike

Pine Barrens

Pipelines

Printing and Publishing

Printmaking

PSFS

Public Markets

Radio (Commercial)

Railroad Stations

Railroad Strike of 1877

Railroads

Recording Industry

Red Arrow Lines

Refineries (Oil)

Restaurants

Rock Music and Culture (Late 1960s to Present)

Root Beer

Salt Making

Savings Societies

Saws and Saw Making

Schuylkill Navigation Company

Scientific Management

SEPTA

Shipbuilding and Shipyards

Shirtwaist Strike (1909-10)

Shoemakers and Shoemaking

Shopping Centers

Silk and Silk Makers

Single Tax Movement

Slavery and the Slave Trade

Slinky

Smoking and Smoking Regulations

Society Hill

Soul Music

South Street

Sports Cards

Street Vendors

Streetcars

Subways and Elevated Lines

Sugar and Sugar Refining

Sullivan Principles

Superfund Sites

Telephones

Television

Textile Manufacturing and Textile Workers

Thanksgiving

Thrift

Tobacco

Toy Manufacturing

Trade Unions (1820s and 1830s)

Turnpikes

University City Science Center

Walking Encyclopedia: Harrowgate

War of 1812

West Philadelphia

Working Men’s Party

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Workshop of the World
