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Philadelphia Record Photograph Morgue Reference Library
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Held at: Historical Society of Pennsylvania [Contact Us]1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
Founded in 1877, the Philadelphia Record long held standing as one the Philadelphia area’s most esteemed newspapers. Initially owned by William Singerly, the paper was purchased by the locally prominent Wanamaker family in 1898 and then by newspaper magnate J. David Stern in 1928.
In the 1930s, competition stiffened between the Record and its primary morning competitor, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and in 1947 the Record went out of business, ultimately selling its assets to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
This collection consists of approximately 700 folders containing non-photographic material related to certain subjects found in the Subject series of the Philadelphia Record Photograph Morgue (Collection V07). It was created by the Philadelphia Record newspaper, c. 1900-1947.
The collection is arranged alphabetically by subject.
Gift of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 5 July 1951.
- Publisher
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Kristina Wilson.
- Finding Aid Date
- ; 2015.
- Sponsor
- This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Award # MA-31-14-0178-14.
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open.
Collection Inventory
Autos - Old Time
Chess - Franklin Chess Club
Cults - Amish
Dancing - Swiss Folklore Dancers
Delaware - Wilmington
Delaware River Bridge High Speed Line
German-American Bund
Liberty Bell
Maps - Fairmount Park
Maps - New Jersey - outline map
Maps - Pennsylvania
Maps - Pennsylvania - Chester County
Maps - Pennsylvania - Delaware County
Maps - Pennsylvania - historical maps
Maps - Pennsylvania - Montgomery County
Maps - Pennsylvania - outline map
Maps - Pennsylvania - Valley Forge
Maps - Philadelphia (1 of 2)
Maps - Philadelphia (2 of 2)
Maps - Philadelphia - air raid zones
Maps - Philadelphia - street maps
Maryland - Baltimore - Ft. McHenry
Milk
Motor buses
Mummers
New Jersey - Elizabeth
New Jersey - Trenton
New Jersey - seashore
Oleomargarine
Pennsylvania - Allentown - St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Pennsylvania - Bloomsburg
Pennsylvania - Bristol
Pennsylvania - Bryn Mawr - Church of Our Lady of Good Council
Pennsylvania - Bryn Mawr - Hospital
Pennsylvania - Butler - Tuberculosis Sanatorium
Pennsylvania - Carlisle
Pennsylvania - churches - music
Pennsylvania - Cresson
Pennsylvania - Devon - St. David's Church
Pennsylvania - Easton
Pennsylvania - Ft. Mifflin
Pennsylvania - flag
Pennsylvania - Gettysburg
Pennsylvania - Glen Riddle
Pennsylvania - Hamburg - tuberculosis hospital
Pennsylvania - Harrisburg
Pennsylvania - Harrisburg - State Capitol [SEE ALSO Large Photo File]
Pennsylvania - Hershey
Pennsylvania - Hershey - Hershey Chocolate Corporation
Pennsylvania - Hershey Hotel
Pennsylvania - highways - super-highways - Harrisburg to Pittsburgh (1 of 2) [SEE ALSO Large Photo File]
Pennsylvania - highways - super-highways - Harrisburg to Pittsburgh (2 of 2) [SEE ALSO Large Photo File]
Pennsylvania - Johnstown - flood 1889
Pennsylvania - Lancaster [SEE ALSO Cults - Amish]
Pennsylvania - Malvern - Corrigan Hall
Pennsylvania - Merion - convent
Pennsylvania - Merion - Cricket Club
Pennsylvania - National Guard - Aviation Corps
Pennsylvania - Norristown - airport
Pennsylvania - Norristown - Montgomery Hospital of Norristown
Pennsylvania - Oakbourne - Epileptic Hospital
Pennsylvania - parks
Pennsylvania - Pottsville
Pennsylvania - Valley Forge [SEE ALSO Large Photo File]
Pennsylvania - Valley Forge - Washington's Headquarters
Pennsylvania - Villanova
Pennsylvania - Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania - Willow Grove
Pennsylvania Railroad - maps
Pennsylvania Railroad - stations - 30th St.
Pennsylvania Railroad - stations - New York City
Philadelphia - airports
Philadelphia - airports - hangars
Philadelphia - airports - Northeast
Philadelphia - airports - Southwest Airport
Philadelphia - airports - 1936 - Davis, S. Wilson - formerly Hog Island Airport
Philadelphia - airports - 1941-1942 - Davis, S. Wilson - formerly Hog Island Airport
Philadelphia - Award
Philadelphia - banks - Beneficial Savings Fund
Philadelphia - banks - Commonwealth Title & Trust
Philadelphia - banks - Corn Exchange National Bank
Philadelphia - banks - Fourth Street National Bank
Philadelphia - banks - Franklin National Bank
Philadelphia - banks - Franklin Trust Co.
Philadelphia - banks - Girard National Bank
Philadelphia - banks - Girard Trust Co.
Philadelphia - banks - Philadelphia Savings Fund Society
Philadelphia - banks - Penn, William & Trust Co.
Philadelphia - bridges
Philadelphia - buildings
Philadelphia - buildings - Atwater Kent Museum
Philadelphia - buildings - Betsy Ross House
Philadelphia - buildings - Cannon Ball House
Philadelphia - buildings - City Hall
Philadelphia - buildings - Combs Conservatory of Music
Philadelphia - buildings - Congress Hall
Philadelphia - buildings - Convention Hall
Philadelphia - buildings - Convention Hall - interior
Philadelphia - buildings - Drexel, Mary home
Philadelphia - buildings - Drexel & Co. Building
Philadelphia - buildings - Eagles, Fraternal Order of building
Philadelphia - buildings - Franklin Institute
Philadelphia - buildings - Franklin Institute - Planetarium
Philadelphia - buildings - Girard, Stephen Building
Philadelphia - buildings - Guarantee Trust Co.
Philadelphia - buildings - Independence Hall
Philadelphia - buildings - Manufacturers & Bankers Club [SEE ALSO U.S. - Army - Ordnance Dept. - Philadelphia]
Philadelphia - buildings - Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Philadelphia - buildings - Pennsbury
Philadelphia - buildings - Pennsylvania Building
Philadelphia - buildings - Phipps, Henry Institute
Philadelphia - buildings - Stock Exchange
Philadelphia - buildings - Terminal Commerce Building
Philadelphia - buildings - U.S. Custom House - old building
Philadelphia - buildings - U.S. Custom House - new building
Philadelphia - buildings - Witherspoon Building
Philadelphia - buildings - YMCA Building
Philadelphia - cemeteries - Laurel Hill
Philadelphia - cemeteries - Woodland Cemetery
Philadelphia - churches - Christ Church [SEE ALSO Phila. - Churches - X size envelope]
Philadelphia - churches - Church of the Advent
Philadelphia - churches - Church of the Gesu [SEE ALSO Iron Fences]
Philadelphia - churches - Church of the Nativity
Philadelphia - churches - Church of the Visitation
Philadelphia - churches - Emmanuel Presbyterian Church
Philadelphia - churches - First Mennonite Church
Philadelphia - churches - First Presbyterian Church of Kensington
Philadelphia - churches - Holy Child Roman Catholic Church
Philadelphia - churches - Hope Presbyterian Church
Philadelphia - churches - Old Swedes Church [SEE ALSO Phila. - Churches - X size envelope; Penna. Society of Mayflower Descendants]
Philadelphia - churches - Quaker Meeting House - Frankford
Philadelphia - churches - St. Agatha's Catholic Church
Philadelphia - churches - St. Charles Church
Philadelphia - churches - St. Edward's Church
Philadelphia - churches - St. Francis Church
Philadelphia - churches - St. George's Methodist Church
Philadelphia - churches - St. James of Kingsessing
Philadelphia - churches - St. James Roman Catholic Church
Philadelphia - churches - St. John the Baptist Church - Manayunk
Philadelphia - churches - St. Luke & the Epiphany Protestant Episcopal Church
Philadelphia - churches - St. Peter's Church
Philadelphia - churches - Second Mennonite Church
Philadelphia - churches - Seventh Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Philadelphia - churches - Summerfield Methodist Episcopal Church
Philadelphia - churches - Temple Keneseth Israel
Philadelphia - churches - Trinity Reformed Church
Philadelphia - churches - Whittaker Memorial Church
Philadelphia - corporations - A & P
Philadelphia - corporations - Baldwin Locomotive
Philadelphia - corporations - Bell Telephone Co.
Philadelphia - corporations - Curtis Publishing Co.
Philadelphia - corporations - old time
Philadelphia - corporations - Philadelphia Gas Works
Philadelphia - corporations - RCA
Philadelphia - corporations - Riegel, Jacob & Co.
Philadelphia - corporations - SKF
Philadelphia - Frankford
Philadelphia - Frankford Arsenal
Philadelphia - garbage disposal plant
Philadelphia - Hog Island
Philadelphia - hospitals - Episcopal Hospital - proposed
Philadelphia - hospitals - Frankford Hospital
Philadelphia - hospitals - Germantown Hospital
Philadelphia - hospitals - Hahnemann Hospital
Philadelphia - hospitals - Irish Hospital
Philadelphia - hospitals - Jefferson Hospital - Medical College
Philadelphia - hospitals - Jewish Hospital & Maternity Hospital - 5th & Spruce St.
Philadelphia - hospitals - map
Philadelphia - hospitals - Methodist Hospital
Philadelphia - hospitals - Misericordia Hospital
Philadelphia - hospitals - Mt. Sinai Hospital [SEE ALSO Babies - Mt. Sinai Hospital]
Philadelphia - hospitals - Naval Hospital
Philadelphia - hospitals - Osteopathic Hospital
Philadelphia - hospitals - Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental & Nervous Diseases [SEE ALSO Iron Fences]
Philadelphia - hospitals - Pennsylvania Lying-In Hospital - 8th & Spruce
Philadelphia - hospitals - Philadelphia General Hospital
Philadelphia - hospitals - Presbyterian Hospital [SEE ALSO Red Cross - Nurse's Aides]
Philadelphia - hospitals - St. Agnes Hospital
Philadelphia - hospitals - University Hospital
Philadelphia - hospitals - Wills Eye Hospital
Philadelphia - hospitals - Women's Hospital - Preston & Parrish Sts.
Philadelphia - hospitals - Women's Medical College & Hospital - Henry Ave. [SEE ALSO Babies - Sleeping]
Philadelphia - hotels - Drake Hotel
Philadelphia - hotels - Robert Morris Hotel
Philadelphia - hotels - Warburton House
Philadelphia - hotels - Warwick Hotel
Philadelphia - housing - Philadelphians at home
Philadelphia - housing - tenements - collapse of buildings [SEE ALSO Phila. - Buildings - X-size envelope]
Philadelphia - institutions
Philadelphia - institutions - Forrest Home
Philadelphia - institutions - Friends Asylum
Philadelphia - institutions - Jewish Consumptive Institute
Philadelphia - institutions - Jewish Foster Home
Philadelphia - institutions - Methodist Episcopal Home for the Aged
Philadelphia - institutions - shelter for homeless
Philadelphia - Kensington [SEE ALSO Riots - Philadelphia - Native American or Know Nothing 1841]
Philadelphia - libraries - 18th & The Parkway
Philadelphia - libraries - Free Library branches
Philadelphia - Mint
Philadelphia - Navy Yard
Philadelphia - Navy Yard - aircraft factory
Philadelphia - old views
Philadelphia - on parade 1935-1936
Philadelphia - organizations - American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia - organizations - American Rescue Workers
Philadelphia - organizations - Big Brothers Association
Philadelphia - organizations - Contemporary Club
Philadelphia - organizations - Engineers Club
Philadelphia - organizations - Fishing Club of State in Schuylkill
Philadelphia - organizations - Graphic Sketch Club
Philadelphia - organizations - Jewish Charities
Philadelphia - organizations - Manufacturer's Club
Philadelphia - organizations - Mother's Helpers
Philadelphia - organizations - Neighborhood Center
Philadelphia - organizations - Philadelphia Club
Philadelphia - organizations - Poor Richard Club
Philadelphia - organizations - Tammany Hall
Philadelphia - organizations - Union League [SEE ALSO Large Photo File]
Philadelphia - panorama
Philadelphia - parks & squares
Philadelphia - parks & squares - Fairmount Park
Philadelphia - parks & squares - Fairmount Park - colonial houses
Philadelphia - parks & squares - Fairmount Park - Horticultural Hall
Philadelphia - parks & squares - Fairmount Park - Memorial Hall
Philadelphia - parks & squares - Mount Pleasant Mansion
Philadelphia - parks & squares - Fairmount Park - Robin Hood Dell
Philadelphia - parks & squares - Woodford Mansion
Philadelphia - parks & squares - League Island - golf course
Philadelphia - parks & squares - League Island Park
Philadelphia - parks & squares - Reyburn Plaza
Philadelphia - police - stations
Philadelphia - Post Office - 9th & Market - old one
Philadelphia - Post Office - 30th & Market
Philadelphia - Post Office - branches
Philadelphia Real Estate Board
Philadelphia - registration 1939-1940
Philadelphia - Registration Commission
Philadelphia - residences
Philadelphia - residences - Morris House - 5442 Germantown Ave.
Philadelphia - residences - Penn, Hannah House
Philadelphia - residences - Wistar, Caspar
Philadelphia - restaurants - Kugler's Restaurant
Philadelphia - scenes
Philadelphia - Sesqui-Centennial 1926
Philadelphia - settlement of - 300th anniversary 1937-1938
Philadelphia - society - Junior Bal Masque
Philadelphia - stadium [SEE ALSO Large Photo File]
Philadelphia - stores - Frankford Grocers Association
Philadelphia - stores - Gimbel Bros. [SEE ALSO U.S. - Finances - Defense Bonds - Retailers for Victory]
Philadelphia - stores - Snellenberger's [SEE ALSO U.S. - Finances - Defense Bonds - Retailers for Victory]
Philadelphia - stores - Strawbridge & Clothier [SEE ALSO U.S. - Finances - Defense Bonds - Retailers for Victory]
Philadelphia - stores - Tryon, Edward K. Co.
Philadelphia - stores - Wanamaker's [SEE ALSO U.S. - Finances - Defense Bonds - Retailers for Victory]
Philadelphia - stores - Wanamaker's - bell
Philadelphia - taxes - sales tax
Philadelphia - streets - Delaware Ave.
Philadelphia - streets - High Street
Philadelphia - streets - old views
Philadelphia - streets - Parkway [SEE ALSO Rationing - Gasoline - Philadelphia]
Philadelphia - streets - Queen Street
Philadelphia - theatres
Philadelphia - theatres - Academy of Music [SEE ALSO Philadelphia - X-size envelope; Operas - Philadelphia 1942]
Philadelphia - theatres - Arch St.
Philadelphia - theatres - Shubert Theatre
Philadelphia - theatres - Walnut Street
Philadelphia - transit - City Hall concourses
Philadelphia - transit - subway - El - Broad Street - cars (map)
Philadelphia - Union Refreshment Saloon
Philadelphia - water
Philadelphia - waterfront [SEE ALSO War - World War - 2D - Ships Interned - Philadelphia 1941]
Philadelphia - waterfront - old views
Philadelphia - Zoo - tigers
Pittsburgh University - stadium
PWA - Pennsylvania - projects - Save Water campaign
Railroads - locomotives - old timers
Republican National Conventions - 1800s
Schools - Beaver College
Schools - Carnegie Institute of Technology [SEE ALSO Pamphlet File; Mt. Wilson Observatory]
Schools - Bryn Mawr College - buildings
Schools - Bryn Mawr College - hockey team
Schools - Central High School
Schools - College of Physicians
Schools - Divinity School
Schools - Dobbins Vocational School
Schools - Forrest Combined Grammar & Primary School
Schools - Germantown Academy
Schools - Gettysburg College
Schools - Girard College [SEE ALSO Large Photo File - Bombs - Incendiary]
Schools - Haverford College
Schools - Lincoln University
Schools - National Farm School
Schools - Peirce School
Schools - Penn Charter School
Schools - Penn, William High School for Girls
Schools - Pennsylvania Institution for Instruction of the Blind
Schools - Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf
Schools - Pennsylvania - University of
Schools - Pennsylvania - University of - boathouse
Schools - Pennsylvania - University of - buildings
Schools - Pennsylvania - University of - Dental School
Schools - Pennsylvania - University of - dormitories
Schools - Pennsylvania - University of - Morris Arboreteum
Schools - Pennsylvania - University of - museum
Schools - Pennsylvania - University of - museum expeditions
Schools - Pennsylvania - University of - Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
Schools - Philadelphia Normal School for Girls
Schools - Sharswood, George School
Schools - Southern Manual Training School
Schools - Villanova - buildings
Schools - Widener, H. Josephine Grammar & Primary School
Schools - Widener, Joseph E. Junior High School
Schools - Willard, Frances E. School
Schools - Woodland Ave. Primary School
Schuylkill River - bridges - University Ave. Bridge
Schuylkill River - pollution
Snakes - Philadelphia region
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Strikes - Philadelphia - West Point Knitting Mill
Tapestry
Teletypesetter
Transportation [SEE ALSO Millman, Wade for Horse & Carriage]
Traffic - night
Umbrellas & parasols
United Campaign 1941
U.S. Constitution - Sesquicentennial Celebration - Philadelphia 1937
U.S. Marines
U.S. Navy - battles - historic
U.S. Post Office - zones - Philadelphia
Voting machines - Philadelphia
War - Civil War [SEE ALSO Library Shelves 920 L - Sandberg, Carl - Lincoln, Abraham War Years]
War - Civil War - Battle of Antietam
War - Civil War - battles - Monitor & Merrimac
War - Civil War - veterans
War - Revolutionary War
War - Texas Independence - battles - Alamo
Wars - War of 1812
WFIL - NBC Basic Blue Network
Woodchucks