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“A Field of Raw Brown Earth”

Google Earth satellite photo of the Drexel construction site where University City High School once stood. This image begs comparison with the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin’s 1968 aerial photo of the site (see on this website “University City High School” in the Once the Black Bottom collection).

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2016
Attribution/Credit

https://earth.google.com/web/@39.95793392,-75.19432733,22.68286368a,617.63903185d,35y,-0h,0t,0r; camera: 640m 39°57’28’N75°11’39°W; image title quote from Inga Saffron, Philadelphia Inquirer, 29 January 2016