Category Archives: Behind the Scenes

Gothic Ruins: A Last Glimpse Inside Northeast Manual Training High School

By Steven Ujifusa | Published: November 15, 2012
The former Northeast Manual Training High School looks as if it had been plucked from the Princeton campus and dropped into the middle of North Philadelphia.  Constructed in 1903 at the intersection of North 8th Street and West Lehigh Avenue, the “Collegiate Gothic” building has walls of granite, traceried windows, and gargoyles sprouting from the [...]
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PhillyHistory.org Featured on NBC Philadelphia!

By Deborah Boyer | Published: July 25, 2011
Last week, we had the chance to give NBC Philadelphia a tour of the photo collection at the City Archives and a peek into the research we completed this past spring on augmented reality. Check out the embedded video below to learn more or watch the segment over on the NBC10 site! View more videos [...]
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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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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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