This is a photo of the intersection of 9th and Montrose Streets, where Philadelphia's Italian Market is still located. In the photo, some stands can be seen. In the 1900s, Italian Americans had a huge influence in this area of Philadelphia, and the…
A photo of Giordano's, a business established in 1921 located at the corner of 9th and Washington Avenue in Philadelphia's Italian Market. The Italian Market was the center of Italian American life in Philadelphia.
This photograph features a trolley car on the intersection of 5th and Arch Streets, as a police officer directs traffic. Philadelphia had one of the nation’s largest trolley systems, which enabled people without cars to travel inexpensively almost…
Polite Temple Baptist Church, in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia at 38 E. Price St. where narrator Lillie McKnight attended and was named "Mother of the Church."
Electric sign extending from the Galen Drug Store located at South 15th Street and Market Street. Showing the location and what was offered to the people on that block.
A street view photograph of the intersection of 27th and South Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Newton's Coal Yard, where many migrants from the South worked, was located at this intersection in the early 1900s.
South Street at 22nd Street looking West, the neighborhood in which many African-American migrants settled and the center of Black entertainment in South Philadelphia.