Philadelphia Record News Clippings Morgue (unprocessed), vast amount of clippings of numerous people, events and subjects used by the Metal fasteners, newspaper clippings, photographic negatives and old photograph sleeves remain.Īt the Historical Society of Pennsylvania:

While the collection has been rehoused into archival folders and boxes, only minimal processing has been done on the photographs themselves. Many have been cut and/or retouched for printing purposes, and some have typed captions affixed to either the side or back using glue. The photographs are in generally fair condition. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this finding aid do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Processing made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Historical Society of Pennsylvania 2015. Subject section: arranged alphabetically by event/subject.Īlphabetical section: arranged alphabetically by last name.Īdministrative Information Publication Information Persons range from locals such as Connie Mack and John Wanamaker to national names such as Herbert Hoover and Charles Lindbergh. The Alphabetical series includes, but is not limited to: actors & actresses architects athletes attorneys authors businessmen criminals entertainers educators financiers models musicians philanthropists politicians scientists servicemen society. The Subject series includes, but is not limited to: agriculture architecture & buildings cities & towns civil unrest commerce disasters, both natural and man made economics finance healthcare industry leisure military organizations Philadelphia society politics prisons public works religion sport transportation schools war. The geographic scope of this series is somewhat narrower in that the majority of personages are from the United States. The Alphabetical series, which comprises about 80% of the collection, is described to the folder level, with each folder representing an individual or family. A more detailed despciption of the Subject series is available through our online catalog,. The Subject series, which comprises about 20% of the collection, is described to the box level and is more general in scope, covering events both domestic and global. Photographs are arranged into two series, Subject and Alphabetical.

Record staff photographers or by other agencies and published by permission. This collection consists of tens of thousands of black and white photographs published by the Record’s association as a Democratic party-aligned publication were all instrumental in leading to its final closure in 1947. The economic climate of the Great Depression, an ongoing and increasingly antagonistic competition with the Over the next decade, however, various factors arose which lead to the David Stern again raised readership to 315,000 by the early 1930s. Record had begun to decline, but its purchase by J. By the time of Rodman Wanamaker’s death in 1928 the readership of the

Philadelphia Record as “one of the best and most widely circulated newspapers in the United States.” William Singerley died in 1898, and the paper then went into the hands of the Wanamaker family of Philadelphia. The paper proved so successful under Singerly that, in 1894, the Record in 1877, and then did so again in 1879, calling it the Singerly, who acquired the paper from Swain in 1877, first renamed it the Philadelphia Record newspaper was established as the Philadelphia Record Photograph Morgue (Collection V07), Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

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