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1776

American Bandstand

Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793

Arts of Wharton Esherick

Atlantic City

Automobile Racing

Avenue of the Arts

Ballet

Baseball (Professional)

Baseball: Negro Leagues

Better Philadelphia Exhibition (1947)

Bicentennial (1976)

Bicycles

Billiards (Pool)

Bookselling

Boxing and Boxers

Broad Street Bullies

Burlesque

Cartoons and Cartoonists

Centennial Exhibition (1876)

Children’s Television

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
City Merchant (The); or, The Mysterious Failure

Classical Music

Colonial Revival

Columbus Day

Cricket

Cycling (Sport)

Dancing Assembly

Department Stores

Diners

Doo Wop

Down There

Elegy (for MOVE and Philadelphia)

Fashion

Fever 1793 (Novel)

Films (Feature)

Football (Professional)

Fox Hunting

Freedom Train

Garies (The) and Their Friends

Godey’s Lady’s Book

Gospel Music (African American)

Gothic Literature

Hail, Columbia

Hoagies

Home Remedies

I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia

Ice Hockey (Professional)

Independence Seaport Museum

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Jawn

Jazz

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Kwanzaa

Labor Day

Lafayette’s Tour

Listen to the Mocking Bird

Lotteries

LOVE (Sculpture)

Magazines, Literary

Maps and Mapmaking

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Meschianza

Mighty Macs

Monopoly

Mother’s Day

Mummers

Mummies

Murals

Musical Fund Society

My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free

New Year’s Traditions

ODUNDE Festival

Oh, Dem Golden Slippers

Opera and Opera Houses

Pennsylvania Impressionism

Philadelphia (Film)

Philadelphia Folk Festival

Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent

Philadelphia Lawyer

Philadelphia Story (The)

Philadelphia Ten

Plays and Playwrights

Poetry and Poets

Quaker City (The); Or, the Monks of Monk Hall

Radio (Commercial)

Radio (High School and College)

Radio DJs

Recording Industry

Red City (The)

Restaurants

Rhythm and Blues

Rock and Roll (Early Years)

Rock Music and Culture (Late 1960s to Present)

Rocky

Root Beer

Saint Patrick’s Day

Saturday Evening Post

Scrapple

Sesquicentennial International Exposition (1926)

Sheppard Lee

Silver Linings Playbook

Skate Parks and Skateboarders

Slinky

Social Dancing

Soul Music

SPHAS

Sports Cards

Sports Mascots

Stadiums and Arenas

Staircase Group (The)

Taverns

Television

Television Shows (About Philadelphia)

Tenderloin

Thanksgiving

Tomato Pie

Toy Manufacturing

Trails (Recreational)

TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)

Twist (The)

Wanamaker Organ

Whiz Kids

Wieland; or, the Transformation: An American Tale
