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"History of the Irish Americans in Philadelphia"
"Sky-Scrapers of Philadelphia" (1898).
"Plan of Mr. Fitch's Steam Boat," The Columbian Magazine (December 1786). Woodcut of the design for the first American steamboat: John Fitch's 1787 oar-propelled steamboat. By 1790, Fitch was propelling his steamboats by paddlewheel, a technology later perfected by Robert Fulton in the Clermont (1807).
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Allegorical Figure of the Waterworks. Carved by William Rush (1825) for the Fairmount Water Works, portrayed in Thomas Eakins's paintings of William Rush and His Model, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Leopold Stokowski conducting 1,062 performers, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, in the 2 March 1916 American premiere of Gustav Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand at the Academy of Music (Philadelphia).
Mother Jones: In 1903 Jones organized children, who were working in mills and mines at the time, to participate in the "Children's Crusade", a march from Kensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Oyster Bay, New York, the home of President Theodore Roosevelt, with banners demanding "We want to go to School and not the mines!" Though the President refused to meet with the marchers, the incident brought the issue of child labor to the forefront of the public agenda.
Detail of Western Civilization (1933) by C. Paul Jennewein (pediment sculpture, Philadelphia Museum of Art).
William Penn statue by Alexander Milne Calder atop Philadelphia City Hall.
Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1830-35) by Edward Hicks, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.