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The view is north from Filbert St. to the Unit 3 site leveled for University City High School in 1967 & 1968. Two groups of houses stand in the 3600 block of Filbert pending the relocation of two families.
One of UCHS’s distinctive architectural features was its large atrium. The high school’s labyrinth of hallways fed from all sides into this interior court.
Rescue operations in the 5000 block of Funston Street, where four row homes collapsed into the abyss of the Mill Creek sewer, burying seven persons, three of whom were killed
Barricade erected in front of homes on the 4300 block of Sansom Street, the 30-foot-deep, block-wide hole (shown here in June 1953) caused by the sewer cave in of August 1952
Georgie Woods, a pioneering radio and record hop deejay/civil rights activist at WDAV in Philadelphia, and Mitch Thomas, a black television producer at Wilmington’s WPFH, hosted teen-oriented record and dance programs that introduced black youngsters to rock and roll. In no small way, American Bandstandwas influenced by Woods’s and Thomas’s programs, their music, their dances, and the excitement they generated for rock ‘n’ roll.
Funeral procession for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. passes the Capitol Building in Atlanta, 9 April 1968.
The appalling scene on the 4300 block of Sansom Street, 9 August 1952. "Pit mined by water escaping from breaks in the sewer carrying Mill Creek underground, extends from curb to curb. Hole measures 40 by 30 feet with a depth of 35 feet."
The black painter Edward M. Bannister won the Exposition’s top prize for his landscape painting “Under the Oaks.” The award was temporarily rescinded when the white judges learned that Bannister was black. When the Exposition’s other artists took up Bannister’s cause, the judges backed down and Bannister kept this award.
Annesley Govett developed these rowhouses on the 3900 block of Pine St. ca. 1872, with Jacob Wireman as his architect.
Semidetached Italianate houses at 4004–06 Pine Street, separated by a large tower in the middle of the edifice.
The Young Socialist Alliance published this image with a slogan popularized by Malcolm X, one that was often associated with his advocacy for retributive justice for Blacks victimized by white-perpetrated violence.
An early 20th-century postcard displays the Market Elevated subway at 32nd and Market Streets. This portion of track was demolished in 1956 after subway traffic was moved underground from 32nd to 45th.