WPA Guide to Philadelphia : : A Guide to the Nation's Birthplace / / Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Administration, Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress,
• MitwirkendeR: Baltzell, E. Digby,; French, Paul Comly,; Hopkins, Harry L.,; Webster, Richard J.,; Wilson, S. Davis,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (752 p.) :; illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface to the 1988 Edition --; Introduction to the 1988 Edition --; Further Reading About Philadelphia --; The American Guide Series --; Foreword --; Preface --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Illustrations and Maps --; General Information --; Annual Events --; Point of Special Interest --; The City and its Background --; Portrait of Philadelphia --; Nature’s Handiwork --; The First Inhabitants --; The Saga of a City --; Old Ways and Old Tales --; The Imprint of Nations --; Governmental Machinery --; Philadelphia’s Economic Character --; The City’s Cultural Aspects --; Points of Special Interest to the City’s Guests --; Independence Square Group --; Carpenters′ Hall --; Betsy Ross House --; The Powel House --; Academy of Music --; The Free Library --; Franklin Institute --; The Pennsylvania Museum of Art --; Girard College --; United States Mint --; Roads and Rambles in and Around the City --; Heart of the City --; Where the City Fathers Walked --; To the Schuylkill’s Bank --; The Longest Straight Street --; Historic Germantown --; West Philadelphia --; Through Industrial Philadelphia --; Along the Water Front --; Fairmount Park --; The Tree-Lined Parkway --; Around Penn’s Campus --; Six Woodland Hikes --; Jaunts to the Environs --; Chronology --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512819458; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512819458
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.