Historic Philadelphia

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
It is impossible to express strong enough gratitude for the help, large and small, since this project began, from dozens of people who
guided me at research institutions, uncovered obscure material and answered small questions. They include Dr. Cynthia Little, Dr. Dan
Rolph, Bruce Scherer and other staff of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Margaret Jerriddo, George Brightbill, Brenda Galloway-
Wright, Cheryl Johnson and others at the Urban Archives at Temple University; at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Joseph Banford of
Prints and Pictures Department, William Lang and Connie King of the Rare Book Department and Geri Duclow of the Theatre Collection;
Kathleen Sullivan and Richard McMullin, City Representative’s Office; Ward Childs and staff, Philadelphia City Archives; Erica Piola,
Library Company of Philadelphia; Barbara Katus, Academy of the Fine Arts; Susan Drinan, Atwater Kent Museum; Harry Magee, Fireman’s
Hall Fire House and Museum; Palma Lucas and Jack Cohen, Mummers Museum; and Sandra Horrocks and Molly Clark of the Kimmel
Center for the Performing Arts.
Also, Margaret E. Atkinson, Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library; Dale E. Biever, Civil War Library and Museum;
Shirley Bonnem, Children’s Hospital; Robert Brothers; Dr. Stephen J. Cantor; Don Harrison, Philadelphia Daily News; John Larkin of the
Carpenter’s Company; Philomena C. Porto, University of Pennsylvania; Brian A. Sullivan, Harvard University Archives, and Richard Tyler,
Philadelphia Historical Commission.
And this is an opportunity to acknowledge others, some deceased, who contributed much insight into Philadelphia lore, long before
this book was begun: my mother and grandparents; Frank Brookhouser; Joe Brooks; Darthe Hauck; Milton Kenin; Isadore Lichtstein; John
Maass; Charlie Martyn; Joe Molmer; Ed Schaffer.
Thanks to my daughter, Leslie Zavodnick, for applying an editorial eye to the manuscript. And, finally, thanks to my wife, Barbara
Torode, for her professional expertise in helping assemble illustrations for this book, and for enduring without protest my dinner table
dissertations on research discoveries of the day, such as the bathing habits of antebellum Philadelphians or the origin of the Seckel pear.
If I’ve omitted anyone, it is from lack of memory, not of appreciation.
Illustration Credits:
For illustrations credited to Philadelphia City Archives, the full citation is “City of Philadelphia, Department of Records, City Archives, RG
78, Photographic Collection.”
Portraits credited to the Dictionary of American Portraits are reproduced from that volume, published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1967.
Illustrations credited to the author include photographs taken by him, plus post cards and old pictures collected through the years, as well
as drawings from such old books as Watson’s Annals of Philadelphia, Scharf & Westcott’s History of Philadelphia, and other nineteenth
century publications.
A brief list of further reading about Philadelphia:
Some standard histories:
Russell F. Weigley, editor. Philadelphia, A 300-Year History. W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1982.
J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott. History of Philadelphia. 1609-1884. 3 vols. L. H. Everts & Co., Phila., 1884
John F. Watson. Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in the Olden Time. (Enlarged by Willis P. Hazard, 3 vols.) Edwin S. Stuart, Phila., 1905
Other works the author recommends:
Struthers Burt. Philadelphia, Holy Experiment. Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc., 1945.
Nathaniel Burt (son of Struthers). The Perennial Philadelphians. Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1963.
Francis Morrone. An Architectural Guidebook to Philadelphia. Gibbs Smith, Publisher, Layton, Utah, 1999.
Carl Van Doren. Benjamin Franklin. The Viking Press, New York, 1938.
Dr. Harry Emerson Wildes. William Penn, a Biography. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974.
Christopher Morley. Kitty Foyle. (fiction) J. B. Lippincott Co., 1939.
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