The historical society of Pennsylvania
ounded in 1824 in Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania inspires people to create a better future through historical understanding. One of the oldest historical societies in the United States, it is home to some 600,000 printed items and more than 21 million manuscript and graphic items. Its unparalleled collections encompass more than 350 years of America’s history—from its 17th-century origins to the contributions of its most recent immigrants. The society’s remarkable holdings together with its educational programming make it one of the nation’s most important special collections libraries: a center of historical documentation and study, education, and engagement.
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Constitution Day at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has several versions of the United States Constitution, including the earliest surviving draft handwritten by Constitutional Convention delegate James Wilson and the first newspaper printing by The Pennsylvania Packet. On September 17, 2010, in celebration of Constitution Day, HSP displayed six original versions in its library, so visitors could see the evolution of this national treasure.
Colonial Brews at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania held a Young Friends event on June 10, 2010. Guests enjoyed a lecture by Philadelphia beer historian Rich Wagner, a beer tasting from Yards Brewing Company, and a document show-and-tell from the Historical Society's collection. For more information about the Society's Young Friends group and upcoming events, visit hsp.org.
Pennsylvania
The Keystone state -- key to America's independence. Check out the history and culture of Pennsylvania, where many German-speaking immigrants settled, with Christopher Hoh. #50states #PA
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Hello, my name is Christopher Hoh. I work in the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, and I was born and brought up in the the Keystone State.
Pennsylvania was one of the original 13 colonies. It was called the Keystone State in the 18th century because of its central location and role in U.S. history. The first capital of the United States was in Philadelphia.
Before it was colonized, the area was home to Native American tribes, including the Lenape and the Susquehannok.
The name Pennsylvania means, Penn's Woods. In 1681, England's King Charles II gave the land to William Penn as payment for a debt of 16,000 pounds. This was one of the largest land grants to an individual in history.
William Penn was a member of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, who were persecuted in England. So Penn established the colony for any people persecuted for their faith.
Many religious exiles from Europe settled in Pennsylvania, including the Amish, an Anabaptist sect. Today, the Amish live much as they did in the 17th century, without modern conveniences such as electricity and cars.
In the 18th and 19th centuries Germans migrated to Pennsylvania in large numbers. English‐speakers mispronounced the German word, Deutsch, as Dutch, and these immigrants became known as the Pennsylvania Dutch.
In many Pennsylvania communities, German was spoken as the language of everyday life into the early 1900's. You can still hear German dialects in the farmers' markets of Lancaster and Reading, my home town.
The language is similar to Germany's Palatinate dialect. For example, the man's dog -- der Hund des Mannes -- is this in PA Dutch -- em Mann sei Hund.
Today, 12.7 million people live in Pennsylvania, the sixth most populous state in the U.S. It covers over 46,000 square miles (more than 119,000 km2 ).
Pennsylvania has several large cities. Philadelphia was known in the 1700's as the Athens of America because of its rich cultural life.
Part of that is attributed to Pennsylvania's most famous citizen, Benjamin Franklin -- author, inventor, philosopher, businessman, diplomat and revolutionary leader.
Philadelphia is also home to the Liberty Bell, the icon of American freedom. It remains on view, cracked, on Independence Mall, where the Continental Congress met and in 1776 declared independence from Britain.
Here are some other firsts from Pennsylvania:
The first medical school, hospital, library and insurance company were established in there.
The first commercially drilled oil well near Titusville produced the first U.S. oil boom in 1859.
The first U.S. Envoy to Austria in 1838 was Henry A.P. Muhlenberg, from Lancaster.
And the Philadelphia Zoo is the oldest zoo in America.
My hometown, Reading, is located in southeastern Pennsylvania. Formerly a textile and manufacturing center, Reading became known as The Factory Outlet Capital of the World.
The surrounding area has been called the Snack Food Capital of the World, leading all other states in the production of pretzels, chips and candy.
The state has some other interesting food facts.
The Yuengling Brewery, in Pottsville, is the oldest operating brewery in America, established in 1829.
A little further west is Hershey, the birthplace of Hershey chocolate bars. The town smells of chocolate and the street lights are shaped like Hershey kisses.
And don't forget Philly cheese steaks.
Pennsylvania gave birth to one US President -- James Buchanan in the 1800s.
Vice President Joe Biden was born in Scranton.
Many actors also come from Pennsylvania including Kevin Bacon, Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Sharon Stone, to name a few.
Pennsylvania has always had a creative music scene. Each religious sect that settled in Pennsylvania brought with it a unique style of music. The Moravians, in Bethlehem, introduced organs and trombones into their worship. The Mennonites and Lutherans sang heartily, from German hymnbooks. And the Ephrata Cloister was known for beautiful harmony.
Popular singers today include Taylor Swift, from Wyomissing, and Christina Aguilera and George Benson, from Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia is also the birthplace of the famous TV program, American Bandstand, which introduced singers and bands to teenagers for more than 20 years.
I travel the world but I still have a strong connection to my home state: I'm a career diplomat -- like Benjamin Franklin, our country's first envoy. I'm also a composer who benefited from my home state's musical milieu.
I'm proud to come from Pennsylvania, the land of the Liberty Bell, which helped inspire the cause of freedom for all humanity.
The Pennsylvania Colony (Colonial America)
This lecture is a brief introduction to the early history of the Pennsylvania Colony. The Pennsylvania Colony was founded in 1681 by William Penn, a Quaker convert who converted a debt owed to his family by the king into a charter for a proprietary colony. In keeping with Quaker principles, Penn's Frame of Government established complete religious toleration in the colony - a policy ahead of its time when even Christian toleration seemed lenient. Penn made treaties with local Indian tribes in order to get them to vacate the land around Philadelphia voluntarily, which was a rare measure of humanity during this time period. The Pennsylvania Colony's economy, based on growing staple crops, was typical for the Middle Colonies.
This lecture is one of many that I have produced about Colonial America and fits into Period 2 of the AP US History curriculum.
In Penn's Shadow (1680-1720) - Philadelphia: The Great Experiment
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Philadelphia celebrates its founder more than any other American city, but who exactly is William Penn? For many, he is a statue atop City Hall, but Penn's busy life reflected an era of chaotic upheaval and conflict. He is at once a radical Quaker, political prisoner, visionary city planner, absent landlord, and a slaveholder. His ideals, contradictions, and ambitions cast a long shadow across American history. This installment of Philadelphia: The Great Experiment explores what it means to live In Penn's Shadow.
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Society Hill Area in Classic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia's Society Hill is one of the most popular and picturesque residential neighborhoods in the city, and really, fans of Philadelphia will tell you, on the entire East Coast. Blocks of restored historic brick town houses and cobblestone streets take visitors back to earliest days of the United States. The neighborhood's walkable proximity to both Old City and Center City and its overall gentility make it one of the most lauded residential areas in Philadelphia.
History of Pennsylvania
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Buffalo Church Pennsylvania USA Built in 1773 Historical and Museum Commission.
Buffalo church Pennsylvania USA built in 1773 Historical and Museum Commission
What is the oldest building in Pennsylvania
The oldest building in Pennsylvania is this tiny structure hidden away in a corner of Delaware County
Philadelphia in the early fifties
The city of Brotherly Love in the late forties, early fifties.
Featuring (wobbly footage) street trolleys, buses, the Reading Lines' Reading Train and Bus Terminal, trains, the port, RR ferry and Delaware River Bridge, a water plane landing on the river, M.S. Keystone State, the Frankford Elevated SUBWAY, PRT elevated train station with Line 14 train, various street scenes, vintage neon lights, cars, water planes moored on the river banks' seaplane ramp. Also featuring the Pennsylvania Rail Road Ferry Terminal on Market Street. During the 19th century, railroads linked the Atlantic with the Pacific coast. Trains from Philadelphia also ran north, south and east to towns and cities on the Atlantic shore. Steamships and ferries connected the city to New Jersey and Delaware. However, it was during the 1880s and 1890s that electrification of trolley cars, elevated and subway trains made rapid public transit possible in Philadelphia and the surrounding areas.
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company.
In 1889, the Reading Railroad decided to build a train depot, passenger station, and company headquarters on the corner of 12th and Market Streets. The move came eight years after the Pennsylvania Railroad opened its Broad Street Station several blocks away at 15th and Market Streets, and one year after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened its 24th Street Station at 24th and Chestnut Streets. The complex was fronted on Market by an eight-story headhouse that housed the passenger station and company headquarters. Reading Terminal served the railroad's inter-city and regional rail trains, many of which are still running as part of the SEPTA Regional Rail system that connects Center City with outlying neighborhoods and suburbs, especially to the north. Many of those trains would be converted to electric power in a project that began in 1928 and basically completed in 1933. Daily traffic peaked during World War II with up to 45,000 daily passengers, then declined in the 1950s with the advance of road and air travel. The Reading declared bankruptcy on November 23, 1971. The shed was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
PRR Railroad Ferry to Camden
Yet because no bridge crossed the width of the Delaware between Philadelphia and Camden until 1926, ferries provided a vital connection for rail passengers bound for New York and points north. Beginning in the 1850s many companies, including the Camden and Atlantic (C&A) Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), acquired ferries to augment their existing lines. In 1854, the C&A purchased the Cooper family’s operations and offered more frequent service between Camden and Philadelphia.
The ferries’ vehicle-carrying business was greatly reduced by the 1926 opening of the Delaware River Bridge, now called the Ben Franklin, but the boats kept steaming across the river. A major impact on ferry facilities and operations was also caused by the two railroads’ combining most of their South Jersey lines in 1933 into the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines. Trains on ex-Reading lines were rerouted to and from the Pennsylvania’s train and ferry terminal, and the Reading’s Kaighn’s Point terminal and ferry were abandoned in 1934. The last of the railroad-owned passenger and vehicle ferries which served our area, the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Philadelphia and Camden Ferry, was in itself a colorful transportation system. The boats on this line were sturdy vessels with steel hulls and upper structures and basically painted in the same Tuscan red color scheme as the passenger train cars of both the Pennsy and the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines. The name “Pennsylvania Railroad” and the boats’ individual names were emblazoned in gold letters on their sides. The names of the vessels were also lettered in gold on gold-bordered black signs on their pilot houses – one facing Camden, the other facing Philadelphia. The Pennsy’s logo, a bright red keystone in a circle with intertwined gold letters, PRR, was flamboyantly displayed on both sides of each boat’s black smokestack. The ferry service was discontinued in 1952 and, by 1957, the terminal had been torn down. PRR passenger ferries were named after Southern New Jersey towns such as Bridgeton, Ventnor and Haddonfield. Time to cross the Delaware river was less than eight minutes.
I have dated this footage ''late 40s early 50s''. Your help is welcome to date this video in a more accurate manner, my own timestamp referrals are:
-Route (or Line) number 5 (3.09min) was abandoned in 1955.
-The ferry service was discontinued in 1952 (and, by 1957, the terminal had been torn down).
With the Ferry still in service, this is 1952 at the max.
The Historical Society of Frankford - Centennial Challenge - 2005
The society was organized in 1905, and chartered in 1920, for the purpose of promoting historical study, especially the social history and traditions of Frankford and vicinity. Purchases are made with the general society fund; outright gifts only are acceptable. The society is housed in a two-and one-half story, fireproof, stone, brick, and steel building, constructed in 1930. Space of manuscripts is adequate.
Holdings
The materials relate entirely to the Frankford section of Philadelphia and include: Deeds, leases, grants, releases, etc., 1681-1887; aldermen's court dockets, accounts, and school records, 1824-1925; account books of various business enterprises, including the Oxford-Provident Building and Loan Association, the earliest in the United States, 1831-1863; fire companies, 1793-1871; Philanthropic Society and Lyceum records; Civil War records; historical sketches; genealogical material relating to local families; and miscellaneous personal and business correspondence.
There are 250 volumes, plus 1,000 pieces, all of which are arranged: Deeds, alphabetically by name of grantor, and chronologically thereunder; general material, alphabetically by name of author, and chronologically thereunder. Accessions are cataloged, and 1,250 card (three by five) catalog the pieces.
Material is available to accredited researchers upon application to the secretary or other officer of the society. — Papers Read Before the Society, III, No. 5 (1937), Smedley Caroline W.
Historical Society of Frankford is a Repository For Northeast Philadelphia History
Frankford was the gateway to our colonial capital in the Keystone State, & to the whole of our national history.
Serving the Great Northeast — from Northern Liberties & Kensington to Byberry; from the River Delaware to the Township of Cheltenham. The Society welcomes as members all who are interested.
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PACSCL Photograph Directory - Part 14
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF FRANKFORD
Historical Society of Frankford
1507 Orthodox Street
Philadelphia, PA 19124.
Mail to: Diane Sadler 1319 Sellers Street
Philadelphia, PA 19124.
Voice 215-533-1069. FAX -----no
Hours by appointment.
Photograph
Contact Person(s): Staff on Duty
Access and Research: C
Loan and Photocopy Service: B, F
Reproduction Service: D
Fees Charged
Photocopying: N/A
In-House Photographic Shooting: Yes
Copy Prints: Yes
Loans: No
Editorial Reproduction: No
Advertising Reproduction: Yes
Reproduction
Fees: B
Turn-Around Time: D
Use/Publication Policies
Editorial: Yes
Editorial and Advertising: Yes
Exhibit: Yes
Lists: B
NOTE: Description prepared by grant staff.
-001 Society Photograph Collection , ca. 1860-1950, 2,000 items.
[AL, BW, DG, GN, LA, LB, PC, ST]
Images depict buildings, schools, churches, organizations, homes, and special events in Frankford and the surrounding area. Of particular interest are the depictions of fire companies, the Jolly Post Tavern, the elevated railroad, and Willow Grove Amusement Park. Photographers include the Keystone View Co. and John Schofield.
-002 Glass Slide Collection , ca. 1880-1920, 2,000 items.
[GN, LA]
Images of buildings, streets, churches, and homes in the Frankford area. Of particular interest are the Jolly Post Inn, Friends Meeting House, and Reading Railroad station.
-003 General Portrait Collection , ca. 1860-1920, 142 items.
[AL, BW, CC, CV, DG]
Mostly identified portraits of prominent persons in the Frankford area including businessmen, pastors, doctors, lawyers, and military veterans and their wives. Photographers include Gutekunst, Applegate, Dunshee, Schofield, Sarony, Dean, Chandler & Sheetz, Seeler, Cheelman, Baumgarten, MacIntire, Rhoads and Taylor.
-004 T. Comly Hunter Collection , ca. 1880-1920, 500 items.
[AL, BW]
Images depict buildings, homes, churches, farms, fire companies, hotels, and schools in the Frankford area. Also includes materials on T. Comly Hunter, one of the founders of the Society, and his family.
-005 Lincoln Cartledge Collection , ca. 1870-1920, 0.5 lf.
[AL, BW]
Depictions of the Pennypack Creek and Holmesburg section photographed by Cartledge. Includes nature scenes and local establishments such as Pennypack Print Works and Village and Rowland's Mill.
-006 Guernsey A. Hallowell Collection , ca. 1870-1920, 180 items.
[AL, BW]
Images include churches, buildings, homes, businesses, bridges, schools, hotels, fire houses, and mills. Also of interest are the photographs of the railroad station, Fairmount Park, and an African American church.
Currently (March 2013), The Historical Society of Frankford has been temporarily forced to be a Closed Stack Library.
Liberty Bell, Thaddeus Kosciuszko and Gloria Dei National Historic Sites, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Day 19-3 9-17-17 We visit the Liberty Bell, Thaddeus Kosciuszko and Gloria Dei National Historic Sites,
How Maryland Lost Land to Pennsylvania and Delaware
A video explaining the history of Maryland's border loss to Pennsylvania and Delaware, and how these three colonies formed and shaped each other.
Sources:
Campbell, Joseph Andrew. Genealogical Account of the Ancestors in America of Joseph Andrew Kelly Campbell and Elizabeth Edith Deal (His Wife). Privately Printed, 1921.
Doutrich, Paul. CRESAP'S WAR: EXPANSION AND CONFLICT IN
THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Accessed 2019.
Jordan, Louis. “A Brief Outline of the History of New Netherland.” A Brief Outline of the History of New Netherland, coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/NNHistory.html.
The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America
Compiled and Edited Under the Act of Congress of June 30, 1906 by Francis Newton Thorpe
“First Settlement.” PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN SOCIETY: Proceeding and Addresses at Philadelphia, Pa;, October 17, ... 1913 (Classic Reprint), by PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN SOCIETY, FORGOTTEN Books, 2016, pp. 50–65.
Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1909.
Shaler, John. “PHMC Pennsylvania Charter.” Pennsylvania Charter | PHMC > Our Documentary Heritage, 2015, phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/documents/1681-1776/pennsylvania-charter.html.
“Chapter 4.” FRONTIER COUNTRY: the Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania, by PATRICK SPERO, UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR, 2018.
Germans in Colonial Pennsylvania
A video produced for the Muhlenberg 300 celebration. Production supported by a grant from Concordia Trust.
Peter Silver on What Drew Immigrants to Early Pennsylvania
Philadelphia: The Great Experiment (In Penn's Shadow)
In the eyes of 18th Century immigrants, Philadelphia was a symbol for freedoms of language, property, religion, and legacy that no other regions could offer.
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Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania Annual 2019 Live Stream
Live from Philadelphia Pennsylvania, the Annual Grand Communication 2019 & Installation of officers.
The Betsy Ross House in Old City Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA
Betsy Ross House in Old City Philadelphia USA
Betsy Ross is credited for creating and sewing the first Stars & Stripes American Flag.
In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened on that day in 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.
Betsy Ross House
239 Arch Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106
(215) 629-4026
Philadelphia is the largest city in the state of Pennsylvania.
In 1682, William Penn founded the city to serve as capital of Pennsylvania Colony.
Philadelphia is home to many national historical sites that relate to the founding of the United States. Independence National Historical Park is the center of these historical landmarks. Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed, and the Liberty Bell are the city's most famous attractions. Other historic sites include homes for Edgar Allan Poe, Betsy Ross, and Thaddeus Kosciuszko.
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Facts of Philadelphia and Symbols of Pennsylvania
Betsy Ross made the first American flag in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia is home to the cheesesteak sandwich, water ice, soft pretzels, and TastyKakes.
The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia in 1776.
Philadelphia is home to the Liberty Bell.
Fairmount Park in Philadelphia is the largest city park with over 8,000 acres.
Philadelphia is the site of the first presidential mansion.
Philadelphia was once the United States capital city.
State Colors
Blue & Gold
State Flower
Mountain Laurel
State Motto
Virtue, Liberty, Independence
State Nickname
The Keystone State
State Song
Pennsylvania by Eddie Khoury and Ronnie Bonner
State Theater
Walnut Street Theatre
State Tree
Eastern Hemlock
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Dutchirican: A Latin@ History of Central Pennsylvania
From the 1960s to the present, two-thirds of Pennsylvania’s population growth has been the result of Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, and others moving to the Commonwealth.
In the 1960s, the vast majority of Latin@s lived in Philadelphia; today, as many live in the Pennsylvania Dutch region as in the City of Brotherly Love.
This is the most significant regional demographic change in more than a century, and it is one that is poorly understood by scholars and the public.
The roots of Latin@s in Pennsylvania stretch back to the American Revolution. Join HSP, speaker John Hinshaw, and partner Taller Puertorriqueño on May 10 to explore these stories and their often overlooked realities, including the confluence of cultural values between Pennsylvania Dutch and Latin@s.
Hispanic Heritage Month event at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
On September 30, 2010, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania celebrated the culture and heritage of one of Philadelphia's largest immigrant communities during Hispanic Heritage Month. The evening began with a lecture by Dr. Victor Vazquez Hernandez, associate professor of history at Miami Dade College and co-editor of The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Historical Perspectives. Dr. Vazquez Hernandez spoke about Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of Philadelphia. The lecture was followed by a dance perfomance by Philareyto and live music by Raices Boricuas, a Puerto Rican folkloric music ensemble. The guest speaker will be The lecture will be followed by a display of original documents from HSP's collection and a reception with pastries from El Cafeito. Cosponsored by Al Dia, Raíces Culturales Latinoamericanas, and El Cafeito.