Contents » Twentieth Century to 1945
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Admiral Wilson Boulevard

Aeronautics and Aerospace Industry

African American Migration

Airports

Almshouses (Poorhouses)

American Friends Service Committee

American Philosophical Society

Animal Protection

Arboretums

Armories

Armstrong Association of Philadelphia

Arsenals

Art Colonies

Art Deco

Art of Cecilia Beaux

Art of Dox Thrash

Art of Thomas Eakins

Arts and Crafts Movement

Arts of Wharton Esherick

Astronomy

Athenæum of Philadelphia

Atlantic City

Automats

Automobile Racing

Automobiles

Automotive Manufacturing

Bakeries and Bakers

Ballet

Bank of North America

Banking

Barbershops and Barbers

Barnes Foundation

Bartram’s Garden

Baseball (Professional)

Baseball: Negro Leagues

Basketball (Professional)

Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Bicycles

Billiards (Pool)

Bloody Fifth Ward

Blue Route

Board of Health (Philadelphia)

Boarding and Lodging Houses

Boathouse Row

Book Publishing and Publishers

Bookselling

Bootlegging

Botany

Boxing and Boxers

Brickmaking and Brickmakers

Bridgeton, New Jersey

Broad Street

Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Burlesque

Buses

Byberry (Philadelphia State Hospital)

Camden County, New Jersey

Camden, New Jersey

Campbell Soup Company

Carpet Weaving and Rug Making

Cartoons and Cartoonists

Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul

Cemeteries

Center City

Ceramics

Cheesesteaks

Chemical Industry

Chemistry

Chester, Pennsylvania

Children’s Aid Society of Pennsylvania

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
Chinatown

City Beautiful Movement

City Councils (Philadelphia)

City Hall (Philadelphia)

Civil Defense

Civil Rights (African American)

Civil War Museum of Philadelphia

Classical Music

Clocks and Clockmakers

Coffeehouses

College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Colonial Revival

Columbus Day

Commercial Museum

Commuter Trains

Constitution Commemorations

Contractor Bosses (1880s to 1930s)

Convents

Corrupt and Contented

Country Clubs

Courthouses (County)

Cricket

Crime

Cumberland County, New Jersey

Cycling (Sport)

Dancing Assembly

Deafness and the Deaf

Deindustrialization

Delaware Avenue (Columbus Boulevard)

Delaware Bay

Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Delaware River Port Authority

Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission

Dentistry and Dentists

Department Stores

Diners

Dinosaurs and Paleontology (Study of Fossils and Prehistoric Life)

Dispensaries

Dogfighting

Dogs

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Dream Garden

Dutch (The) and The Netherlands

Eastern State Penitentiary

Education and Opportunity
In the twentieth century, many urban school districts, which had been among the finest in the nation, became some of the most challenged. The Greater Philadelphia region reflected this trend. In 1900 the region’s school systems consisted of largely uncoordinated public, parochial, and private schools. Between 1900 and 1965 politicians, educational administrators, and civic leaders ⇒ Read More
Educational Reform

Elfreth’s Alley

ENIAC

Entomology (Study of Insects)

Environmental Movement

Eugenics

Fabric Row

Fairmount Park

Fairmount Park Commission

Fairmount Park Houses

Fairmount Water Works

Fashion

Ferries

Films (Feature)

Fire Escapes

Food Processing

Football (Professional)

Forts and Fortifications

France and the French

Franklin Institute

Freemasonry

Friends Neighborhood Guild

Funerals and Burial Practices

Furnituremaking

Gardens (Public)

Garment Work and Workers

Gas Stations

Genealogy

General Strike of 1910

German Reformed Church

Girard College

Glassmakers and Glass Manufacturing

Gospel Music (African American)

Grand Juries

Great Depression

Greater Philadelphia Region

Greeks and Greece (Modern)

Grocery Stores and Supermarkets

Gunpowder Industry

Heating (Home)

Helicopters

Herpetology (Study of Amphibians and Reptiles)

High School Sports

Higher Education: Private (Religious)

Historic Districts

Historic Germantown: New Knowledge
in a Very Old Neighborhood

Historic Preservation

Historical Societies

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Hoagies

Hog Island

Home Remedies

Horses

Horticulture

Hotels and Motels

Hurricanes and Tropical Storms

I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia

Ice Hockey (Professional)

Immigration (1870-1930)

Immigration (1930-Present)

Independence Hall

Independence Seaport Museum

Indian Rights Associations

Industrial Neighborhoods

Industrial Workers of the World

Infectious Diseases and Epidemics

Influenza (“Spanish Flu” Pandemic, 1918-19)

Inner Suburbs

Insurance

International Peace Mission Movement and Father Divine

Irish (The) and Ireland

Italian Market

Italians and Italy

Jawn

Jazz

Jewelers Row

Knights of Labor

Labor Day

Laurel Hill Cemetery

Law and Lawyers

Lawnside, New Jersey

Lehigh Valley

Liberians and Liberia
