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Water Street 1927-1935.jpg
Bricked street and sidewalk. Row of brick houses with adults and children standing on sidewalk and sitting on stoop. A child runs in front of a section of abandoned houses with missing windows near a lamppost. A short iron gate crosses the front of a…

Quaker City Dye Works.jpg
A view of the west side of the Quaker City Dye works in Kensington, Philadelphia, PA which was once one of the largest dye works facilities in the city.

Rowhomes in kensington-richmond street.jpg
Row homes in Kensington. These were the types of homes many immigrants lived in when they moved to Philadelphia.

columbia ave.jpg
This photo is a street-level photo taken at Columbia Avenue (now Cecil B. Moore Ave.) and 5th Street, that shows a sign for the Henry H. Sheip Manufacturing Company.

BVM  1914.jpg
Visitation BVM School in Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia
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