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Over the past 50 years, the streets of Philadelphia have been a living laboratory for ethnographer Elijah Anderson. He’s been on the ground here since…
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Electrical wires first appeared on Philly streets in 1845. A few pioneering wires were strung up on poles to facilitate the latest communication innovation: the…
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Painted transparencies were the lighted billboards of the nineteenth century. Large scenes and words painted on thin cloth or paper were stretched over a wood…
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One of the things I was really curious about when I started this series was how we came to prioritize vehicles over people in the…
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I always wanted a short and sweet history of America in the 1800s, but I couldn’t ever seem to find one. After writing this (and…
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