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Bisque Doll Head
The painted features of this porcelain doll face point to the work of firms in the Thuringia area of Germany. Thuringia’s natural clay deposits made it the center of the German doll industry. This doll likely once included glass enamel eyes and a…
Beer Bottle
This bottle was used to sell and distribute beer by Charles Joly, a bottler at 9 Seventh Street in Philadelphia. Consumers paid for the beer, but not the bottle. Beer drinkers would return the bottles to the brewer or take the bottles back to get…
Ackley, Sallie (Wilkins)
In the wake of the Civil War, a young widow contracted for a new house to be built at 228 Cooper Street.
A Lost Block of Cooper Street
Expansion of the Victor Talking Machine Company spelled the end for a block of houses on Cooper Street between Front Street and Delaware Avenue.
527 Cooper Street
Contributing structure, Cooper Street Historic District.
434 Lawrence Street
Nineteenth-century former rowhouse converted to automobile garage c. 1946.