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United States Bank, Philadelphia / drawn by C. Burton, N.Y. ; engraved...

Print shows pedestrians on a broad sidewalk in front of the Second Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a Greek revival style building designed by William Strickland. Printed at top right: ... More

Fire Association Building, 401-403 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Philad...

Survey number: HABS PA-1434 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More

Shibe Park (Stadium), 2701 North Twenty-first Street, Philadelphia, Ph...

Significance: This structure was the first reinforced concrete stadium in the nation, and is a good example of the concept of a major stadium. Survey number: HABS PA-1738 Building/structure dates: 1908-1909 ... More

First Unitarian Church, 2121 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelph...

Survey number: HABS PA-1508 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia Electric Company, Richmond Power Station, Southeast end o...

Survey number: HAER PA-574 Public domain photograph of electric equipment, power generation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Row houses. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain image of a commercial or residential multi-story building, condominium, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Betsy Ross house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Girard-Peterson House, 332 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Significance: No. 332 Spruce is one of a row of houses built by Stephen Girard around 1820; today it is home to Charles Peterson, one of the founders and early leaders of the Historic American Buildings Survey... More

Bank of North America, 305-307 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadel...

Significance: The Bank of America, chartered in 1781, was the nation's first commercial bank. In 1929, it merged with the Pennsylvania Company for Banking and Trusts. Survey number: HABS PA-1391

First Bank of the United States, 120 South Third Street, Philadelphia,...

Significance: Built 1795-97, Samuel Blodgett, designer and Joseph P. Le Grand, marble mason. It served as the Bank of the U.S. from 1797-1812 and as the Bank of Stephen Girard's, 1812-1864. Later occupied by th... More

University of Pennsylvania, University Museum, 3620 South Street, Phil...

Survey number: HABS PA-1646 Public domain photograph of a historical landmark building in Rome, Italian architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eastern State Penitentiary, 2125 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, Phila...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manayunk, Pennsylvania. Workmen in an automobile junk yard on Ridge Av...

Public domain photograph of car crash, accident, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Miss Natalie O'Donald, a garage attendant ...

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Latour Warehouse, 508 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Significance: Built 1817-1818, this is an interesting survival of early waterfront commercial building. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-121 Survey number: HABS PA-1056

Leland Building, 37-39 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

512-526 South Water Street (Houses), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County...

Survey number: HABS PA-1619 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 419 South Sixth Street, Phi...

Survey number: HABS PA-1318 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001166

American Academy of Music, 232-246 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, P...

Survey number: HABS PA-1491 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000674

First Bank of the United States, 120 South Third Street, Philadelphia,...

1900 Block North Twenty-Third Street & Judson Street (Houses), West si...

Significance: These are semi-detached residences that, while containing footprints representative of most urban dwellings being constructed in North Philadelphia during the last quarter of the 19th century, di... More

Market Street Elevated Railway, 56th Street Station, Intersection of M...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic market square, downtown, commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Suzanne O'Donnell, of Houston, Texas,...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eastern State Penitentiary is a former American prison located at 2027...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The prison was operational from 1829 until 1971. When t... More

Birthplace of Old Glory, Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Harnessed white horse in the foregrd.; woman looking in window of the house.

Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classical or neoclassical building, architecture design, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gasoline sign on Chestnut Street

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kimball & Gorton Philadelphia R.R. Car Manufactory, 21st & Hamilton St...

Print shows an advertisement for the Kimball & Gorton Philadelphia R.R. Car Manufactory, with side views of a railroad passenger car and a city street-railroad passenger car that is passing P.S. Duval's lithogr... More

[Broad Street north from Locust, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Women order assemblers in front of seed ra...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

1400 Block West Girard Avenue (Houses), South side, Philadelphia, Phil...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hope Engine Company No. 17, 733 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia, Phil...

Significance: A four-story urban volunteer firehouse, in use from 1852 to 1871. Italianate detailing in exterior. Survey number: HABS PA-1572

Masonic Temple, 1 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jonathan Paschall House, 36 Christian Street, Philadelphia, Philadelph...

Survey number: HABS PA-1607 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eastern State Penitentiary, 2125 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, Phila...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch stone structure, bridge, or tunnel, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Passyunk Street Bridge offered an excellent view of Philadelphia's oil...

Naval Base Philadelphia-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, 350-Ton Hammerhea...

Significance: The crane was the largest in the world when it was completed and is a landmark in American engineering. Roller bearings support a large circular gear mechanism located on top of the portal and all... More

Merchants' Hotel, 40-50 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Friends Meeting House, Philadelphia, Pa.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage Pennsylvania postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Ph...

2011 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Entry Significance: Founded in 1862, the Union League is oldest Republican party club in the nation. The building is also noted for its Philadelphia Second Empire Style. Unpro... More

Abbottsford Homes, Building Type 1, Bounded by Abbottsford, Henry & Ro...

Significance: Built in 1942-43, the Abbottsford Homes Defense Housing Project exemplified World War II urban workers' housing. It was created to house workers in nearby war-related industries and their families... More

Tacony, Neighborhood is bounded by Delaware River, Cottman Avenue, Mag...

Significance: The area within the City of Philadelphia known as "Tacony" is historically significant for its mid-nineteenth-century foundation as the southern terminus of the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad, ... More

Philadelphia Electric Company, Richmond Power Station, Southeast end o...

Survey number: HAER PA-574 Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

George Washington fire engine. Unusually interesting to visitors to Al...

A man standing next to a fire engine. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Latour Warehouse, 508 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Significance: Built 1817-1818, this is an interesting survival of early waterfront commercial building. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-121 Survey number: HABS PA-1056

Girard Trust Corn Exchange Bank, 34-36 South Broad Street, Philadelphi...

Survey number: HABS PA-1510 Public domain photograph of a historic landmark building, classicism style or classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shibe Park (Stadium), 2701 North Twenty-first Street, Philadelphia, Ph...

First Bank of the United States, 120 South Third Street, Philadelphia,...

Elfreth's Alley (Houses), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Philadelphia Zoological Gardens, Bear Pits, Philadelphia, Philadelphia...

See also HABS PA-6211 for additional information. Survey number: HABS PA-1662 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001151

Church of St. James the Less, 3200 West Clearfield Street, Philadelphi...

Significance: Built between 1846 and 1848, St. James the Less is the first pure example of a Medieval Parish Church in the United States. It is also the first church to be inspired by, and constructed under the... More

[Library Company of Philadelphia, Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl...

Public domain photograph of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia Fire Department, Engine Company No. 21, 826-828 New Marke...

Survey number: HABS PA-1787 Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Window of a chain grocery store on Market ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ivy Lodge, 29 East Penn Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Family time on Daly Street in the Whitman row-house neighborhood of So...

Philadelphia Electric Company, Richmond Power Station, Southeast end o...

Survey number: HAER PA-574 Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Broad Street, north from Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bulletin Building, 1315-1325 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphi...

Significance: From 1908 to 1955, the building was the home of the Evening Bulletin newspaper, which went out of business in 1981. The building is architecturally significant as an early 20th century commercial ... More

John Coltrane House, 1511 North Thirty-third Street, Philadelphia, Phi...

Significance: It has cultural significance as the long-time residence of John W. Coltrane, the groundbreaking and innovative African-American jazz musician (1926-1967). Additionally, the building is a superlati... More

Rowley-Pullman House, 238 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Philadelph...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Philadelphia Art Club, 220 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Philadelp...

Survey number: HABS PA-1529 Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William H. Winder Houses, 232-234 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Ph...

Survey number: HABS PA-1384 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 251, Northeast corner Hagner Road & Wa...

Significance: Constructed as a storehouse, Building 251 is associated with the large-scale expansion of Frankford Arsenal that resulted from the United States' entry into World War I. Survey number: HAER PA-74... More

Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classical or neoclassical building, architecture design, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Free Library of Philadelphia, Falls of Schuylkill Branch, 3501 Midvale...

Significance: Completed in 1913, the Falls of the Schuylkill Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was one of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropis... More

Scott-Wanamaker House, 2032 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...

Significance: Notable example of Jacobean Revival style and one of the affluent townhouses in Philadelphia's Center City section. From 1894-1922, the house was the home of John Wanamaker, the founder of the Joh... More

Eastern State Penitentiary, 2125 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, Phila...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a chamber, cell, interior, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Perspective view / L.N. Rosenthals Chromo Lith. Philadelphia.

Print shows a perspective view of an Italianate style building on a street corner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; designed by architect Samuel Sloan, it may have been the residence of Joseph Harrison, Jr. at 221... More

At Dock Street wharf / Schell & Hogan ; JL[?] sc.

Print shows congestion of horse-drawn carts and wagons overburdened with merchanise on Dock Street, also handcarts, teamsters and longshoremen, and railroad locomotives and cars for hauling goods from ships to ... More

[Market Street, west from 11th, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Chestnut Street and post office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Broad Street, north from Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

John Roney House, 117 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Significance: An early 19th century row house. Survey number: HABS PA-1017

19-35 Catharine Street (Houses), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Name changed from Catherine Street to Catharine Street, the correct spelling Survey number: HABS PA-5182

St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church, 250-254 South Eighth Street,...

Significance: This fine Greek Revival church is the work of John Haviland, who executed many other Greek Revival designs. His body was buried under the church, but was later re-interred at the Philadelphia Divi... More

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A "museum" of freaks and curiousities on S...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Election sign on South Broad Street

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Miss Ruth Gusick, formerly a clerk in a dr...

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Part of the 9th Street Italian Market, the nation's oldest working out...

Carol M. Highsmith - Society Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mount Moriah Cemetery, Mt. Moriah Naval Lot, 6201 Kingsessing Avenue, ...

Mount Moriah Cemetery Gatehouse already documented as HABS No. PA-1634. Survey number: HALS PA-4-B

Provident Life & Trust Company Bank, 407-409 Chestnut Street, Philadel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gloria Dei (Church), 929 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphi...

Significance: Some of the materials used in this building were brought from the earlier Swedish Church at Tinicum, built in the 17th century, and Gloria Dei was erected by the same carpenters and bricklayers wh... More

Gloria Dei (Church), 929 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphi...

John Bartram House & Garden, House, 54th Street & Lindbergh Boulevard,...

Significance: The John Bartram House was the sole residence of John Bartram (1699-1777), the well-known early American botanist, explorer, and plant collector between 1731 and his death. William Bartram (1739-... More

2100 Block North Uber Street (Houses), East & west sides between Diamo...

Survey number: HABS PA-6717 Building/structure dates: 1886 Initial Construction

2100 Block North Uber Street (Houses), East & west sides between Diamo...

Survey number: HABS PA-6717 Building/structure dates: 1886 Initial Construction

North Philadelphia Station, Street Car Waiting House, 2900 North Broad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Liberty Bell Center, Market Street between 5th & 6th Streets, Philadel...

Survey number: HABS PA-6712 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Liberty Bell Center, Market Street between 5th & 6th Streets, Philadel...

Survey number: HABS PA-6712 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Library Company of Philadelphia, Ridgway Branch, 900 South Broad Stree...

Significance: The structure is one of America's last Greek Revival building built in the late 19th century. Survey number: HABS PA-1616

William H. Winder Houses, 232-234 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Ph...

Survey number: HABS PA-1384 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baptist Temple, North Broad Street between Montgomery Avenue & Norris ...

Survey number: HABS PA-6662 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

University of Pennsylvania, Furness Building, Philadelphia, Philadelph...

Survey number: HABS PA-1644 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

C.F. Rumpp & Sons, Incorporated, Factory, 114-130 North Fifth Street a...

Significance: C.F. Rumpp was a well-known manufacturer of fancy leather good, pocketbooks and satchels. It closed in 1959 after nearly a century of manufacturing. The factory (not the original building) is a ty... More

Upsala, 6430 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-1718 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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