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EXPLORE PhilaPlace

See and hear the stories behind Philadelphia’s neighborhoods, landmarks, and architecture with this multimedia guide, created by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

EXPLORE other NEH-funded projects

woodprint: Emancipation Day in South Carolina
Freedmen and Southern Society Project
Blue Grass Group
Encyclopedia of Appalachia
The Valley of the Shadow Project
The Valley of the Shadow Project
Depiction of the Boston Massacre, 1770 engraving
The Coming of the American Revolution (1764-1776)
Bracero History Archive
Bracero History Archive
Emancipation, print by Thomas Nast, c.1865
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
The Jazz Loft Project
Jazz Loft Project
photograph: Black Sunday dust storm approaching Ulysses, Kansas, April 14, 1935
The Dust Bowl