WRPR 116: Black Philadelphia (HC)

From the Free Library of Philadelphia: a searchable collection of historic photographs of the city.

A searchable collection of historic photographs and images of the city

Another digital image library of the city.

A unique juxtaposition of portraiture from 1800 with photographs of the city from 1960 and 2000.

Images from the American Philosophical Society from the 18th through 20th centuries.

The DPLA contains of 40 millions images, documents, and sounds from museums and libraries throughout the United States. You can both browse and search. For example, you can search for "Philadelphia" and then use the subject filter to limit results to "Civil Rights."

Includes extensive materials from their African American collections, as well as images of Philadelphia architecture, transportation, and the 1876 Centennial. Mostly pre-20th century.

Includes materials documenting Civil Rights activism in Philadelphia, photographs of African-American life in Philadelphia by John W. Mosley, NAACP Philadelphia branch, and materials from the newspaper the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.

Search Philadelphia murals by neighborhood or related programs.

TriArte, the art & artifacts database of the TriColleges, includes images of Philadelphia (particularly photography) and it is browseable or searchable by geography.

Digital collections at the museum include images of art as well as information about each piece. Artwork includes photographs, printings, paintings, and 3D objects.

Search "Philadelphia" to see numerous items within their collections showing different aspects of the city.

Artwork done by Thrash, an African-American artist who lived most of his life in Philadelphia, under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. Not all the images are identified by location, but some are recognizably Philadelphia.

The museum is committed to telling the story of African Americans in all its permutations: family life, the Civil Rights movement, arts and entertainment, sports, medicine, architecture, politics, religion, law and technology. The AAMP currently houses four galleries and an auditorium, each of which offer exhibitions anchored by one of our three dominant themes: the African Diaspora, the Philadelphia Story, and the Contemporary Narrative.

Provides historical maps of the city via a Google Maps viewer. Layers can be combined and viewed together. Click "Interactive Maps Viewer" to get started. Includes digitized versions of several late 19th century Philadelphia atlases and surveys.

For Philadelphia 1916-1921, digitized in full color.

This site allows users to search for a specific address and find the services areas for various Philadelphia Services.

Provides information from the U.S. Census and several city agencies on a variety of topics, including housing, population, land use, utilities, and more. Census information is from 2000; other city information is more recent. A project of the Cartographic Modeling Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.

Maps and data (mortgages, deeds, foreclosures) on Philadelphia County.

Maps digitized from the APS collections, including many maps of Philadelphia over the years.

GPTMC’s in-house research department tracks visitor statistics, measures tourism’s impact on the region, and provides insight and tracking for every marketing program GPTMC develops.

County Level Health data across a number of measures.

Data from 2010 about income, residential and racial segregation in the city is available for download.

The Philadelphia Research Initiative provides timely, impartial research and analysis that help Philadelphia’s citizens and leaders understand and address key issues facing the city.

Includes early admission records from Eastern State Penitentiary and Indentures and Apprenticeships in early Philadelphia.