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| Description: | A view of the Coining Room, with men and women working at various machines. Large pallets of boxes, on wheels, sit in the central aisle, on the left. Capti... |
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| Description: | A view of the Coining Room, where women sit at long tables, weighing out metal. Each woman has a balance and other tools at her station. A male supervisor ... |
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| Description: | View across cemetery toward the church, which has vines growing on the walls. Caption read: "Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church (Founded 1677-Erected 1700), S... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Philadelphia Home for Incurables, established in 1877. Nurses stand near a group of patients sitting outdoors under trees, w... |
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| Description: | View of Blessed Sacrament Church Rectory. Two rows of children walk on the sidewalk beside telephone poles. |
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| Description: | The entrance hallway contains a large statue of St. Joseph carrying Jesus with a vase of flowers and chalice sitting at the feet. The ceiling has heavy cro... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | A view of Logan Hall, home to the Wharton School of Business. The building features Gothic Revival elements, including the arched windows and quatrefoils f... |
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| Description: | Interior of a library in Saint Joseph Hall, opened in 1903. Located on the campus of Mount Saint Joseph Collegiate Institute, founded in 1900, the library ... |
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| Description: | A view of the parlor at Mt. St. Joseph. A table stands near the doorway and wooden chairs are arranged on a carpet across the room. Multiple paintings deco... |
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| Description: | A view of the study room at St. Joseph's college, lined with rows of desks. This room appears to double as a worship space, as the desk at the front of the... |
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| Description: | A view looking over rows of desks in the novitiate classroom at Mount St. Joseph. Light fixtures hang from the tin ceiling and a double door entrance is lo... |
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| Description: | A view of the Museum and Science Room at Mount St. Joseph. Taxidermied birds and fish are arranged on the shelves of a display cabinet standing along the w... |
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| Description: | Exterior of Fairmount Water Works with numerous columned buildings overlooking a river with boats moored to a small dock. Another boat is on the river in m... |
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| Description: | Frontal view of the Betsy Ross House, located at 239 Arch Street and built around 1740. The house features a display window with historic photographs and a... |
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| Description: | View down 52nd Street, a road leading into Fairmount Park. An automobile and a pedestrian pass by rows of trees. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of an man sitting in an electric car by Rumsey, founded in 1895. A Rumsey Electric Company Limited General Catalog is depicted alongside the vehicle. |
| Date: | 06 23 1900 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Turners squad at the Federal Gymnastics Festival in Philadelphia. They are dressed in their uniforms and George Brosius is wearing a suit. They a... |
| Date: | 08 27 1814 |
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| Description: | Newspaper article on the "Capture and Destruction of the Capital" relating information on the burning of Washington, D.C. on August 24, 1814. The city was ... |
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| Description: | Older woman standing outdoors next to a sculpture of Thorfinn Karlsefni, an Icelandic-born Scandinavian explorer of North America. Behind her is the Schuyl... |
| Date: | 02 13 1815 |
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| Description: | Newspaper article declaring peace between the United States and Great Britain at the end of the War of 1812. |
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