Monthly Archives: January 2007

Photography: A Mini-History

By Heather Newlin | Published: January 25, 2007
  1839 was an important year in the history of record-keeping. It was in this year that the first practical form of photography, the Daguerreotype, was invented. Without this invention almost 170 years ago, PhillyHistory.org would not have been possible. Most of the images on this website come from one of three photographic types: the [...]
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The Broad Street Subway

By Heather Newlin | Published: January 9, 2007
    Providing around 1 million rides a day, SEPTA is an important resource in the city of Philadelphia. The man pictured in one of the accompanying photos was just one of the many involved in building a part of that transportation system, the Broad Street Subway. The photograph was taken December 14, 1925 as [...]
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