Faculty and Students at the University of Pennsylvania inaugurated this heritage site in the spring of 2008.
This virtual history center will be an ever-revised and expanded resource by and for members of the
West Philadelphia community, and especially for teachers and their students.

Introduction

1. Roger Miller and Joseph Siry, "The Emerging Suburb: West Philadelphia, 1850-1880," Pennsylvania History 46 (April 1980), p. 114-115.

2. Ibid., 110-114.

3. Quoted in Miller, Roger and Siry, p. 109-110.

4. Mark Frazier Lloyd, "Notes on the historical development of population in West Philadelphia," University of Pennsylvania Archives, http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/wphila/stats/census_lloyd.html.

5. Miller and Siry, pp. 106-107; Lloyd, "Notes".

 

Transportation Innovation and Real Estate Development

6. Walter Licht, Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992), p. 53.

7. Robert Carl Jackle, "Philadelphia Across the Schuylkill: Work, Transportation and Residence in West Philadelphia, 1860-1910" (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Temple University, 1985), p. 43.

8. Jackle, "Philadelphia Across the Schuylkill," pp. 43, 93-94.

9. John Henry Hepp, The Middle Class: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia 1876-1926(Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press,  2003), p. 30.

10. Ibid, p. 31.

11. Miller and Siry, pp. 117-120.

12. Ibid., pp. 125-131.

 

Further Institution Building

13. "Profiles in Penn History: A Documentary History of Title to Penn's West Philadelphia Campus 1870-1900," University of Pennsylvania Archives: http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/alum/99_3.html.

14. Ibid.

15. Laffitte M Vieria. West Philadelphia Illustrated: Early History of West Philadelphia and Its
Environs; Its People and Its Historical Points (Philadelphia: Avil Printing Company, 1903), 146-151.

16.Drexel University Archives and Special Collections, "James MacAlister Papers," The Drexel University Archives: http://innoserv.library.drexel.edu/search~S3?/Xmacalister&searchscope=3&SORT=D/Xmacalister&searchscope=3&SORT=D&SUBKEY=macalister/1%2C5%2C5%2CB/frameset&FF=Xmacalister&searchscope=3&SORT=D&1%2C1%2C.

17. Vieira, 163.

18. Mt. Pisgah A.M.E. Church, 'The View from Mt. Pisgah," Mt. Pisgah A.M.E. Church: http://www.mtpisgahamec.org.

19. Allen Meyers, The Jewish Community in West Philadelphia (Porthsmouth, NH: Arcadia Publishing Company, 2004), 10.

20. Ibid., 11.

21. Ibid., 83.

22. Ibid., 55.

23.Ibid., 58.

24. Vieira,156.

25. Ibid.,162.

26. Ibid.,162.

27. Ibid.,158-159.

 

West Philadelphia in the National Eye

28. Vieria, 179.

29. Ibid.

30. "Satterlee Hospital: A Civil War Hospital in West Philadelphia," University City Historical Society, http://www.uchs.net/Satterlee/satterleehospital.html

31.Vieria,178.

32. Lauren Pinsker, "History of Spruce Hill," University of Pennsylvania Archives: http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/upwphil/pinsker_sprucehill.pdf

33. As cited in Clark DeLeon, America’s First Zoostory: 125 years at the Philadelphia Zoo (Virginia Beach: Donning Company, 1999), 35.

34.Ibid., 35-36.

35. Ibid., 43.

36. Ibid., 44.

37. Ibid., 53.

38.Magee’s Illustrated Guide of Philadelphia and the Centennial Exhibition: A Guide and descriptions to all places of interest in or about Philadelphia, to the Centennial grounds and buildings, and Fairmount Park (Nathan Cohen Books: New York, 1975), 85.

39. Randall M. Miller and William Pencak, ed. Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth (Penn State University Press, 2002), 222.

40. Ibid.

41. John Maass, The Glorious Enterprise: The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 and H.J. Schwarzmann, Architect-in Chief (New York: American Life Foundation, 1973), 41.

 

Conclusion