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The view is from Mantua Hall, looking northeast across the rooftops of Mantua toward the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Schuylkill River, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (center-right). The Schuylkill River Expressway is hidden by the railroad tracks.
This photo shows a Mantua Hall apartment shortly before the building opened for occupancy.
Mantua Hall was an 18-storey edifice built by the Philadelphia Housing Authority to accommodate 465 people. This photo shows the building in its final phase of development in 1960. It would open in 1961.
The University City Science Center’s first headquarters was the refurbished former Stephen Greene printing plant at 34th & Market St.
Paul Robeson speaks at the Progressive Party’s 1948 national convention in Shibe Park, Philadelphia. The convention nominated former Democratic Vice President Henry A. Wallace as the Progressive Party’s presidential candidate.
The Science Center’s ballyhooed World Forum for Science & Human Affairs was planned to occupy these two large lots west of 36th St. between Market & Filbert. The project never left the drawing board. The vacant lot in the foreground would serve as a surface parking lot for 40 years. A corner of University City High School appears at right in the photo. Throughout its history, the school’s view across Filbert St. was the fenced parking lot.
In this Evening Bulletin photo of orientation activities at House One, Rodney Davis, 16, take notes on the courses he plans to take. Each sheet has a course description.
In this Evening Bulletin photo, new Free School students, Gordenia Burrell (left) and Norman Washington, chat with teacher Richard Seymour as other students and faculty members gather (background) in House One. Seymour was the head teacher at House One (3833 Walnut Street).
Left to right: John Mount, of the training section of the U.S. Post Office; Linda Powell, West Philadelphia High School (WPHS), junior moving to the Free School; Dr. Aase Eriksen, Penn GSE lecturer and director of the Free School; Donald Colman, WPHS junior also at the Free School; and Richard Seymour, head teacher of the Free School's first unit, House One (3833 Walnut Street) review books for House One.”
Annie McClain, the troubled child on whose behalf Hannah Schoff interceded in criminal court and convinced the judge to treat Annie as a trouble child rather than a criminal adult. Schoff regarded this case as the starting point of her crusade for juvenile courts.