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BROAD, GERMANTOWN, ERIE: 1980S-1990S

Add brief description here - maybe just a sentence or two highlighting major themes/resources?

We could potentially link to resource images/text from the "area overview" page.

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If we go with a timeline, will we remove the thematic pages? I would vote yes - we could fold text and material on thematic pages into the timeline, create mini-galleries + find other ways to graphically highlight.

President Jimmy Carter Speaking at Zion Baptist Church, 3600 North Broad Street. 9/3/1980.  

 

Photo courtesy of PhillyHistory.org, a project of the Philadelphia Department of Records. 

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Tioga Garden. 20th and Tioga Streets. 1984. 

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Longstanding community gardening and beautification efforts shape the neighborhood’s landscape and support a green future. To learn more about ongoing work led by local gardeners and community organizations in partnership with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, please click here: Nicetown-Tioga Greening Plan.

 

McLean Library, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 

Looking at the Route 23 Trolley on Germantown Avenue from North Broad Street. 1986.

Photo: Joseph V. Labolito.

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This image is from a collection of work originally commissioned by and in the collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Print and Picture Collection. The Special Collections Research Center at Temple University also holds a collection of Labolito's images, negatives, proofs and notes. Follow @PhiladelphiaCollections on Facebook and Instagram.

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Makeshift basketball hoop in an alley off North Broad Street in North Philadelphia. 1986.

Photo: Joseph V. Labolito.

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This image is from a collection of work originally commissioned by and in the collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Print and Picture Collection. The Special Collections Research Center at Temple University also holds a collection of Labolito's images, negatives, proofs and notes. Follow @PhiladelphiaCollections on Facebook and Instagram.

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"Hands Across America," near North Broad Street and Erie Avenue in North Philadelphia. 5/25/1986. 

Photo: Joseph V. Labolito.

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This image is from a collection of work originally commissioned by and in the collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Print and Picture Collection. The Special Collections Research Center at Temple University also holds a collection of Labolito's images, negatives, proofs and notes. Follow @PhiladelphiaCollections on Facebook and Instagram.

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"Hands Across America," near North Broad Street and Erie Avenue in North Philadelphia. 5/25/1986. 

Photo: Joseph V. Labolito.

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This image is from a collection of work originally commissioned by and in the collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Print and Picture Collection. The Special Collections Research Center at Temple University also holds a collection of Labolito's images, negatives, proofs and notes. Follow @PhiladelphiaCollections on Facebook and Instagram.

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3644 North Broad Street. 1986.

Photo: Joseph V. Labolito.

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This image is from a collection of work originally commissioned by and in the collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Print and Picture Collection. The Special Collections Research Center at Temple University also holds a collection of Labolito's images, negatives, proofs and notes. Follow @PhiladelphiaCollections on Facebook and Instagram.

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Bar-B-Qued Chicken 3642 North Broad Street. 1986.

Photo: Joseph V. Labolito.

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This image is from a collection of work originally commissioned by and in the collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Print and Picture Collection. The Special Collections Research Center at Temple University also holds a collection of Labolito's images, negatives, proofs and notes. Follow @PhiladelphiaCollections on Facebook and Instagram.

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Zion Baptist Church at North Broad Street and West Venango Street in North Philadelphia. 1986.

Photo: Joseph V. Labolito.

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This image is from a collection of work originally commissioned by and in the collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Print and Picture Collection. The Special Collections Research Center at Temple University also holds a collection of Labolito's images, negatives, proofs and notes. Follow @PhiladelphiaCollections on Facebook and Instagram.

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One remaining property near 3500 North Broad Street. 1986. 

Photo: Joseph V. Labolito.

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This image is from a collection of work originally commissioned by and in the collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Print and Picture Collection. The Special Collections Research Center at Temple University also holds a collection of Labolito's images, negatives, proofs and notes. Follow @PhiladelphiaCollections on Facebook and Instagram.

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Venango Street Community Garden.

Venango Street, west of Broad Street.

1970s/1980s.

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Longstanding community gardening and beautification efforts shape the neighborhood’s landscape and support a green future. To learn more about ongoing work led by local gardeners and community organizations in partnership with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, please click here: Nicetown-Tioga Greening Plan.

 

McLean Library, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 

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Image from Libby J. Goldstein's "Land for the People Who Work It."

Caption: "The gardens on Venango Street west of Broad Street have come and gone. Here Connie Hylton an optimistic neighbor breathes new life into the vacant lots there. Maybe this time things will be different."

- Green Scene, September 1993

 

Longstanding community gardening and beautification efforts shape the neighborhood’s landscape and support a green future. To learn more about ongoing work led by local gardeners and community organizations in partnership with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, please click here: Nicetown-Tioga Greening Plan.

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McLean Library, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 

Grover Willis, Philadelphia Green Advisory Board Member and Community Gardener.

Venango Street Community Garden.

1994.

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Longstanding community gardening and beautification efforts shape the neighborhood’s landscape and support a green future. To learn more about ongoing work led by local gardeners and community organizations in partnership with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, please click here: Nicetown-Tioga Greening Plan.

 

McLean Library, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 

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The 3700 block of North Broad Street near Germantown Avenue in North Philadelphia. 1999.

Photo: Joseph V. Labolito.

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This image is from a collection of work originally commissioned by and in the collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Print and Picture Collection. The Special Collections Research Center at Temple University also holds a collection of Labolito's images, negatives, proofs and notes. Follow @PhiladelphiaCollections on Facebook and Instagram.

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