Street Names of Philadelphia
Author : Robert I. Alotta
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Street names
ISBN :
Author : Robert I. Alotta
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Street names
ISBN :
Author : Robert I. Alotta
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Information covers entire Philadelphia county and city.
Author : Deirdre Mask
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1250134781
Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards "An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern Germany. The flipside of having an address is not having one, and we also see what that means for millions of people today, including those who live in the slums of Kolkata and on the streets of London. Filled with fascinating people and histories, The Address Book illuminates the complex and sometimes hidden stories behind street names and their power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn’t—and why.
Author : Daphne Oram
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic music
ISBN : 9781910221112
Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC, she went on to become the co-founder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. In 1972, she authored her only book, 'An Individual
Author : Jim Murphy
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1439919240
"An alternative, history-focused guidebook to a selection of Philadelphia's heroes and notable places"--
Author : Frank Hamilton Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
ISBN :
Author : Carl Baehr
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"Milwaukee's eight hundred street names offer fascinating glimpses into the city's rich heritage; from French fur traders to Yankee speculators, from wealthy German tycoons of the Gay Nineties to African American leaders of the 20th century. In this unique book you can read about Tom Mason, who started a war that gave the Upper Peninsula to Michigan; the bitter six-year religious controversy sparked by the naming of Santa Monica Boulevard; "Uncle Jerry" Rusk, the man who gave the order that caused the "Bay View Massacre;" Willaim Merrill's ill-fated diamond mind in Waukesha County!
Author : Jack Myers
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0741424797
Fictionalized memoir which explores the dynamics of being raised in a declining Southwest Philadelphia neighborhood. Pint-sized and four-eyed, little Jimmy Morris is near the bottom of the food chain in his working class "streetcar suburb" of Kings Cross. He's a dreamer, schemer, schoolyard scrapper, secret lover of books, and classroom clown ... a kid you can't decide whether to hug or to slap. Meanwhile, the conformity of the 1950s is yielding to those turbulent '60s. Yes, the times they definitely were a changin' with Kings Cross in the eye of the societal storm.
Author : Harry G. Kyriakodis
Publisher : Brief History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609496821
Visit the Philadelphia neighborhood that has gone from Leni-Lenape territory to an amazing industrial riverside community. Since the time of William Penn, the Philadelphia neighborhood of Northern Liberties has had a tradition of hard work and innovation. This former Leni-Lenape territory became one of the industrial River Wards of North Philadelphia after being annexed by the city in 1854. The district's mills and factories were powered not just by the Delaware River and its tributaries but also by immigrants from across Europe and the city's largest community of free African Americans. The Liberties' diverse narrative, however, was marred by political and social problems, such as the anti-Irish Nativist Riots of 1844. Local historian Harry Kyriakodis traces over three hundred years of the district's evolution, from its rise as a premier manufacturing precinct to the destruction of much of the original cityscape in the 1960s and its subsequent rebirth as an eclectic and vibrant urban neighborhood. In this first history of Northern Liberties, Kyriakodis unearths the story of this remarkable riverside community.
Author : Mark E. Reinberger
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1421411636
Cedar Grove, The Cliffs, Grumblethorpe, Mount Airy, Bartram's House and Garden: Accommodation of the Vernacular