PA State Archives | Hours, Directions, & Fees | Research Topics | Online Catalog | Land Records |
Photographic files of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, which was founded
in 1894 to promote American and foreign commerce and to collect information
concerning the products of world trade. The name of the museum was changed in
1966 to the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center. Photographic files, arranged
by counties and by subjects, include these major categories: Pennsylvania scenes;
Philadelphia scenes; American Indians; agriculture; educational institutions
(Carlisle Indian School, Dickinson College, Swarthmore College, University of
Pennsylvania, etc.); industry (airplane, aluminum, automobile, brick, cement,
clothing, coal, electric, fur, gas, glass, iron and steel, lumber, mining, paper,
petroleum, pottery, printing, radio, railroad, rubber, shipbuilding, street
car, telephone, etc.); natural science (birds, fish, wild life, etc.; and transportation
(air, canal, coach and wagon, mail, railroad, river, sailboat, steamship, etc.).
PA State Archives | Hours, Directions, & Fees | Research Topics | Online Catalog | Land Records |