Greater Philadelphia’s banking roots go deeper than those of any region in the country. By the late twentieth century, however, historic regulatory changes led to acquisitions by out-of-town giants and changed the face of the banking industry both locally and ...
The Philadelphia region’s long-held reputation as the “workshop of the world,” though richly deserved, did not prevent it from suffering the same loss of manufacturing firms and jobs that devastated the economies of other manufacturing centers. Local products ranged widely, from locomotives and ships to silk hosiery, wool carpets, machine tools, hand tools, lighting fixtures, ...
From 1929 to 1941, the severe economic constriction of the Great Depression greatly affected life in the Philadelphia region. Thousands of people lost their homes, became unemployed, and went hungry. New conceptions of the role of government changed local political alignments and public ...
Connecting the Past with the Present, Building Community, Creating a Legacy