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Mourning
The Civil War
The 1920s
Time Machine Wish List
Odd Electricities
Cycling
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Sunlight and Glass, Pleasonton and Prisms
Dismantling the Centennial
Kitty Foyle and Philadelphia, the “grand homey old town”
The TOWN CRIER and the Talkies: Jay Emanuel and Other Reel Fellows
The Hexter Building: Hollywood on Vine and on Point Breeze
Worth Looking Into
Malaugurata Città: Lorenzo Da Ponte and Philadelphia

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vvWC Young 1893 Phila Blue Book widened 803 — [Paxton], Philadelphia Directory and Register, 1813

Wm H Moore Coffin Maker 181 Arc os or Arc nr 5 1839 Directory_0356 — M’Elroy’s Philadelphia Directory, 1839

M’Elroy’s Philadelphia Directory, 1841

P Jacob, inoxidable metallic letters, 935 Spr Freedley 1867 461 — Freedley, Philadelphia and Its Manufactures, 1867

JC Graham, ribbons, etc 525 Chy Freedley 1867 274 - Copy — Freedley, Philadelphia and Its Manufactures, 1867

JC Rulon, undertaker' corpse kept by cold MORNING POST 3 Jan 1871 — Morning Post, 3 January 1871

Syckelmoore, Centennial City, 1875

American Enterprise: Burley’s United States Centennial Gazetteer and Guide, 1876

American Enterprise: Burley’s United States Centennial Gazetteer and Guide, 1876

American Enterprise: Burley’s United States Centennial Gazetteer and Guide, 1876

Philadelphia Inquirer, 30 April 1877

Jhn A Addis, undertaker+embalmer 241 4n Boyds BusDir 1890 1343 — Boyd’s Business Directory, 1890

Givin Mfring Co, trims, esp for undertakers 731 Flb Boyds BusDir 1890 1346 — Boyd’s Business Directory, 1890

WH Mercer, undertaker+embalmer 802 12n Boyds BusDir 1890 1345 — Boyd’s Business Directory, 1890

Wm Rowen Jr, undertaker 251 GirE Boyds BusDir 1890 1345 — Boyd’s Business Directory, 1890

Thos J Somers, furnishing undertaker 2 Evans+PRice+Center GT Boyds BusDir 1890 1346 — Boyd’s Business Directory, 1890

Jacob Wright, undertaker+embalmer Longshore+Marsden Tacony BoydsBusDir 1890 1346 — Boyd’s Business Directory, 1890

S Lindley Rutter, funeral director 620 40n at Wallace 1893 Phila Blue Book 810 — Philadelphia Blue Book, 1893

Schrack+Sherwd up drapery trim un supply 233 35 Mkt 1894 1900 City of Phila_0289 — The City of Philadelphia as It Appears in the Year 1894, ditto 1900

MM Battersby, undertaker 1898 Peace Jubilee — Peace Jubilee Souvenir, 1898

CR Hartranft funerals 3629 GTA ab Venango 1898 Peace Jubilee — Peace Jubilee Souvenir, 1898

Boyd’s Co-Partnership . . . Directory, 1900

Boyd’s Co-Partnership . . . Directory, 1900

Friends’ Intelligencer, 1910

The Friend, 1919

32nd Annual Report of the National Farm School, 1929

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