Monthly Archives: June 2011

Getting Meta with Metadata

By Hillary Kativa | Published: June 28, 2011
Metadata. This rather ambiguous term is the skeleton underneath every image on PhillyHistory.org. Metadata is how we know when and where a photograph was taken. It is how we know who took the photograph and, to some extent, why they took it. Without metadata, searching PhillyHistory.org for photographs of Independence Hall or your grandmother’s house [...]
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Food Will Win the War

By Timothy Horning | Published: June 22, 2011
Supply trucks gathered at City Hall. World War I is often referred to as the first “modern war.” Weapons such as airplanes, tanks, machine guns, and chemicals were used for the first time with deadly consequences. However, one of the oldest weapons in human history was also employed during the War – food. Starving a [...]
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Oh Where Can This Be?: Photos Without a Location

By Hillary Kativa | Published: June 15, 2011
When we enter new photographs into the PhillyHistory.org database, we include as much information as possible about an image from the date and photographer’s name to the location. Without a doubt, location is one of the most important parts of our photo collections as many of the historic images depict street scenes and the exterior [...]
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Neighborhood Movie Theaters

By Shawn Evans | Published: June 7, 2011
Shawn Evans, AIA, Atkin Olshin Schade Architects Center City Philadelphia was home to the region’s most well known movie theatres.  Clustered in districts on Market, Chestnut, South, and North 8th Streets, these entertainment venues lined up along the sidewalks with blinking lights and glistening facades to draw in thousands of visitors to downtown.  An earlier [...]
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