The Great Display of Fireworks at Girard Avenue Bridge
Scene on West River Drive
They Would Raise a Great Deal of Interest in Fairmount Park
Booker T. Washington on the Academy Stage
Music Lessons by William Scott Grove
St. Paul as Seen from the Docks Before the Attempt to Launch Her
Fairmount Boathouses
Flies Crawling Over the Skeleton by Daniel Beard
How Impecunious Belles Gain Money by Posing
Top Caption
Delegates Marching
from the Depot
in Harrisburg
Philadelphia Before You Were Born
The Art and Artists
of the Philadelphia Press
Philadelphia Before You Were Born includes over 200 drawings by artists who drew for the Philadelphia Press during the last decade (1890s) that newspapers used artists--before the age of photography "developed." Some of the artists whose drawings are in the book were part of the famed Ashcan Eight, a group of artists including John Sloan, William Glackens and Everett Shinn, who are credited with revolutionizing American Art. For a peek at what the broadsheets looked like - along with Philadelphia's view of the world at the turn of the 20th century, it's a great reminiscence.
Here are a few of the images.
Genial Idiot by John Sloan
On the Boardwalk Scene from Atlantic City
Men Resting Outside a Post Office
Easter Worshippers Leaving Holy Trinity Church
The Crowd of Visitors at the Exchange During the Sessions
Floating Down the River in the Twilight Talking About Everything in Heaven and Earth
A Portion of the Magnificent Chrysanthemum Show at the Academy of Music
Prominent Women at the Union League Reception to Press Club Delegates
HOW TO ORDER
You can order
The book (229 pages 8.5x11) black and white and
One print (matte paper/suitable for framing 8.5x11) of your choice from those shown for
