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Becoming the Black Bottom

This historic Bromley map from the mid-1920s shows the neighborhood that would become the Black Bottom. A landmark building that would figure prominently in the creation of the University City Science Center was the Stephen Greene Printing Plant (bottom right).

1927
Attribution/Credit

George W. Bromley & Walter S. Bromley, Atlas of West Philadelphia (Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley, 1927), plate 2, University of Pennsylvania Archives & Records Center