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Philadelphia Subjects Papers and Articles

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Held at: Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center [Contact Us]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center. 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

Call Number:
SCRC 848
Repository:
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Extent:
1 linear feet (2 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Philadelphia Subjects Papers and Articles, SCRC 848, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date:
1953-1996 (inclusive)
Abstract:

Two boxes of unpublished and published class and research papers and articles on various Philadelphia-related subjects.

Collection is arranged alphabetically by author.

Collected by Urban Archives staff.

Collection processed and finding aid prepared in August 2025 by Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services.

Organization
Subject
Place

Publisher
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Finding Aid Author
Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services
Finding Aid Date
August 2025
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

The Philadelphia Subjects Papers and Articles are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. The creator/donor has not assigned their rights to Temple University Libraries. Other creators' intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to them or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.

Collection Inventory

Adams, Carolyn Teich and Rosemary Conroy-Hughes. "Philadelphia Population Decline: Economic, Social and Physical Effects." Urban Studies Program, Applied Research Center, Temple University, 1979. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 1
Physical Description

1 Folders

Barber, Lucy. "'Even Numbers of White and Colored': White Philanthropy and Black in South Philadelphia, 1884-1914: A Study of the St. Mary Library, The College Settlement, The Starr Centre and The Whittier Centre. History Department, Haverford College, 1986. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 2
Physical Description

1 Folders

Bauman, John F. "Politics and Public Housing in Philadelphia, 1933-1941." Department of History, California State College, undated. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 3
Physical Description

1 Folders

Benjamin, Philip S. "Gentlemen Reformers in the Quaker City, 1870-1912." Reprinted from Political Science Quarterly, vol. LXXXV, no. 1, 1970. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 4
Physical Description

1 Folders

Bercaw, Nancy. "'I Had to Try to Adjust Myself': Philadelphia Black Women's Experiences During the Great Migration." Black Women in America (course paper), 1986. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 5
Physical Description

1 Folders

Birger, Jon S. "Race, Reaction, and Reform: The Three Rs of Philadelphia School Politics, 1965-1971." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. CXX, no. 3, 1996. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 6
Physical Description

1 Folders

Blodgett, Julie. "Fountain of Power: The Origins of the Knights of Labor in Philadelphia, 1869-1874." [source unknown], undated. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 7
Physical Description

1 Folders

Brooks, G. "Protection from Labor Trouble: The Metal Manufacturers' Association of Philadelphia, 1904-1917." Issues in American Social History, [University of Pennsylvania], 1983. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 8
Physical Description

1 Folders

Burstein, Alan N. "Immigrants and Residential Mobility: The Irish and Germans in Philadelphia, 1850-1880." Washington University, 1976. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 8
Physical Description

1 Folders

Clark, Dennis. "The Urban Ordeal: Reform and Policy in Philadelphia, 1947-1967." Integrative Paper Series #1, undated. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 10
Physical Description

1 Folders

Clark, Dennis. "Part 1: The Mummers and the Mardi Gras." Temple University, 1968. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 11
Physical Description

1 Folders

Clark, Dennis. "Public Housing Desegregation: One of Those 'Liberal Causes'." [source unknown], undated. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 12
Physical Description

1 Folders

Datz, A. Harold. "Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: The 1967 Mayoralty Election in Philadelphia." An original thesis submitted as a partial requirement for the A. B. Degree in American History, Temple University, circa 1969. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 13
Physical Description

1 Folders

Deglin, Richard N. "Spatial Aspects of the Growth and Decline of the Street Railway Network in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Region, 1875-1975." Geography 273, [Temple University?", 1975. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 14
Physical Description

1 Folders

Ericksen, Eugene P. and William L. Yancey. "The Industrial Causes of Ethnic Segregation: Philadelphia 1910-1970." [Temple University?], undated. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 15
Physical Description

1 Folders

Ellis, Myra. "Comparison of Data for Low Income Black and White Aged in Philadelphia." [Source unknown], 1975. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 16
Physical Description

1 Folders

Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth. "Industrial Unionism and Labor Movement Culture in Depression-Era Philadelphia." Offprint from The Poennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume CVIV, no. 1, 1985. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 17
Physical Description

1 Folders

Friedman, Murray. "The Kensington Riot of 1966: A Look at the Undelying Factors Behind White Rioting Against Negroes." Remarks by Dr. Murray Friedman … Lutheran Settlement in Kensington, 1967. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 18
Physical Description

1 Folders

Gerstl, Judith. "Neighborhood Abandonment." Seminar in Urban Studies, [source unknown], 1979. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 19
Physical Description

1 Folders

Grethman, Michael R. "Railway Commuter Transportation: Philadelphia, 1870-1890." Urban Studies, [Temple University], 1972. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 20
Physical Description

1 Folders

Grothman, Michael R. "Population Movement and Locational Decisions: Northern Philadelphia, 1940-1960." Political Science, [Temple University], 1971. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 21
Physical Description

1 Folders

Haller, Mark H. "Philadelphia Bootleggin and The Report of the Special August Grand Jury." Department of History, Temple University, 1984. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 22
Physical Description

1 Folders

Jackson, Kenneth T. "The Suburban Trend Before The Civil War." American Historical Convention, 1969. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 23
Physical Description

1 Folders

Juliani, Richard N. "The Settlement House and the Italian Family." A paper presented at the Tenth Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, 1977. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 24
Physical Description

1 Folders

Kalenga, Diana. "Greater Philadelphia Federation of Settlements." Human Services Coordinator, Greater Philadelphia Federation of Settlements, undated. 1 Folders.
Box 1 Folder 25
Physical Description

1 Folders

Leventon, Martin. "A Methodological Study of the Jewish Population in Philadelphia, 1930." Urban Studies, [Temple University?], 1975. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 1
Physical Description

1 Folders

Leventon, Martin. "The Brief History of Baseball Parks, Their Teams, and Owners in Philadelphia and Its Relationship to the Development of Transit Lines, Politics, Class and Neighborhoods from 1870-1910." Urban Studies, [Temple University?], 1976. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 2
Physical Description

1 Folders

Logan, John R. "Realities of Black Suburbanization." SUNY Albany, undated. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 3
Physical Description

1 Folders

Luconi, Stefano. "Machine Politics and the Consolidation of the Roosevelt Majority: The Case of Italian Americans in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia." Journal of American Ethnic History, 1996. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 4
Physical Description

1 Folders

McCarthy, Michael P. "Corrupt and Contented? Philadelphia Stereotypes and Suburban Growth on the Main Line." Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania. Paper for "Suburbia Re-Examined" conference and Hofstra University, 1987. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 5
Physical Description

1 Folders

Migliorino, Ellen Ginzburg. "Il Proletariato Italiano di Filadelfia All'inizio del Secolo." Centro Studi Emigrazione, Roma, 1976. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 6
Physical Description

1 Folders

Morman, Edward T. "Class Struggle, Corporatism and Technological Innovation: Thomas E. Mitten and the Introduction of the Nearside Streetcar in Philadelphia." Humanities and Social Sciences, [University of Pennsylvania?], 1979. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 7
Physical Description

1 Folders

Nesbitt, Natalie. "The Networks of Wynnefield, 1900-1979." A senior thesis presented to the Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania in candidacy for the degree of honors in American History, 1979. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 8
Physical Description

1 Folders

Norton, John H. "Philadelphia's Uncounted Population: Estimates of Its Size, Composition, and Costs." Department of Health Administration, School of Business Administration, Temple University, circa 1970. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 9
Physical Description

1 Folders

Netsky, Steven. "Four Blocks in Germantown: Social Changes, 1880-1930." [Source unknown], undated. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 10
Physical Description

1 Folders

Paul, Isabel. "Quaker Benevolence: Charity Schools in Philadelphia, 1820-1870." Senior honors paper, [source unknown], 1970. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 11
Physical Description

1 Folders

Pomerantz, Arthus Tennenbaum. "City Planning in Philadelphia During the Administration of Rudolph Blankenburg." History, [Temple University], 1968. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 12
Physical Description

1 Folders

Reutter, Mark. "The Life of Edward Budd Part 1: Pulleys, McKeen Cars, and the Origins of the Zephyr." Railroad History no. 172, 1995. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 13
Physical Description

1 Folders

Shelton, Cynthia. "Textile Production and the Urban Laborer: The Proto-Industrialization Experience of Philadelphia, 1787-1820." Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1982. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 14
Physical Description

1 Folders

Smith, Elmer L. "The Negro in Reading, Pa.: An Introductory Survey of the Negro's Position." [Source unknown], 1953. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 15
Physical Description

1 Folders

Stepansky, Marion. "The Philadelphia Race Riot." Seminar in American Social History, [Temple University?], undated. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 16
Physical Description

1 Folders

Sutherland, John F. "Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf of Philadelphia: The Urban Reformer Returns to the Land." Reprinted from the American Jewish Historical Quarterly, vol. LXVII, no. 4, 1978. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 17
Physical Description

1 Folders

Sutherland, John F. "The Origins of Philadelphia's Octavia Hill Association: Social Reform in the 'Contented' City." Offprint from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume XCIX, no. 1, 1975. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 18
Physical Description

1 Folders

Sutherland, John F. "World War One Housing in Philadelphia: The Reluctant Departure." Philadelphia Bicentennial Meeting of the American Studies Association, 1976. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 19
Physical Description

1 Folders

Toplin, Marc. "A Study of Ward I, 1880-1930." American Studies, [source unknown], 1974. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 20
Physical Description

1 Folders

Turner, Ronald C and Karen Donahoe. "Suburban Housing Market Disequilibrium: The Example of Delaware County." Discussion paper prepared for annual conference "Managing Regional Decline", 1979. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 21
Physical Description

1 Folders

Underkofler, Allen P. "The Philadelphia Improvements Part 1: The Idea and Projects East of the Schuylkill River." Magazine of the Philadelphia Chapter, Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society, Volume 2, nos. 2-3, 1979. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 22
Physical Description

1 Folders

Weinberg, David. "The Labor Relations of Thomas E. Mitten and the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company." University of Pennsylvania, 1983. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 23
Physical Description

1 Folders

White, E. "Articulateness, Political Mobility, and Conservatism: An Analysis of the Philadelphia Anti-Poverty Election." [Source unknown], undated. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 24
Physical Description

1 Folders

Yancey, William L. and Eugene P. Ericksen. "The Antecedents of Community: The Economic and Institutional Structure of Urban Neighborhoods." Temple University, undated. 1 Folders.
Box 2 Folder 25
Physical Description

1 Folders

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