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Philadelphia as Advertised

Mourning
The Civil War
The 1920s
Time Machine Wish List
Odd Electricities
Cycling
Navigation
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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Odd Electricities

Odd Electricities

Dr Parvin, electro-magnetic remedies 126 Pin os 1840 Directory 39 — A. M’Elroy’s Philadelphia Directory, 1840

De Grath Electric Oil PUBLIC LEDGER 5 15 56 — Public Ledger, 15 May 1856

De Grath Electric Oil 8+Chs 3 drs bel 1857 — McElroy’s Philadelphia Directory, 1857

Medicated+electrical baths 1109 Gir MORNING POST 3 Jan 1871 — Morning Post, 3 January 1871

Watts Nervous Antidote electrical NEW YORK EVE TG 19 April 1871 — Evening Telegraph, 19 April 1871

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

Eliz J French electrical supports 1609 Summer NEW CENTURY FOR WOMAN 24 June 1876 — The New Century for Woman, 24 June 1876

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

Important Events of the Century, 1876

Inquirer, 23 April 1877

Electric Fluid Co 224 Gir Boyds Direct 1890 227 — Boyd’s Business Directory, 1890

WT Williamson, electro vapor baths+electric cures 715 Brown Boyds BusDir 1890 1210 — Boyd’s Business Directory, 1890

IL Cragin+Co, Dobbins Electric Soap 119 4s 11-1891TEMPLE — Temple University Magazine, 11 November 1891. The company exhibited a thousand-pound cake of soap at the Centennial.

Gragin+Co, Dobbins' Electric Soap 119 4s 1892 Grace Bp Visiting List_0016 — Grace Baptist Visiting List, 1892

AMA Semi-Centennial Meeting, 1897

Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, 1899

Physicians’ and Dentists’ Directory for the States of Pennsylvania…, 1908

Catalogue, 1915

Philadelphia Orchestra Program, 1917

Philadelphia Orchestra program, 1917

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