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Postcard featuring a view of the Market Elevated station platform at 40th and Market Streets. Underground service to this station began in 1955.
The Market Street Elevated or “El” shaped 20th Century West Philadelphia.
Colorful Overbrook Farms, house between N. 59th Street and Drexel Road; the foundation is Wissahickon schist.
African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, an institution founded in central-city Philadelphia in 1792, with its present home in this building, which was constructed by White Episcopalians in 1899.
The Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander School, a pre-K–12 school, formed as the education hub of the West Philadelphia Initiatives.
The Strawberry Mansion Bridge, originally called the Fairmount Park Trolley Bridge, was built by the Fairmount Park Transportation Company in 1897 to add cross-Schuylkill service to the company's trolley line through Fairmount Park.
Woodside Park was an amusement park which thrilled Philadelphians with its attractions for almost 60 years.
Ice shows like the Ice Follies were regular events at the Arena in its early years.
By the 1980s, Drexel’s unglamorous orange-brick architecture—seen here on the Stratton Building, Drexel’s first building west of the Main Building—connoted an institution that had lost its creative vitality.
Drexel University's 1960s and 1970s campus expansion juxtaposed Drexel’s postmodern interface with Powelton Village's Victorian-era houses.