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Photo Album A Taste of a Civil War Supper	Blog Post A housewife in Philadelphia during the Civil War, Ellen Emlen compiled a cookbook in 1865. How many recipes did she record?
Subject Guide Philadelphia City Directories	Blog Post The Operative Word in Mont. Co. Historic Parks: Meticulous
Blog Post Philadelphian Charles Godfrey Leland was a journalist, editor, poet, and soldier during the Civil War. What is he most remembered for writing and researching?	Blog Post Who was the first Democratic mayor elected in Philadelphia in the twentieth century?
Blog Post In 1821, Thomas P. Cope began a freight and passenger service that sailed between what two port cities in Pennsylvania and England?	Blog Post Transparency in documentary editing
Blog Post What influential Philadelphia publishing house once produced The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies’ Home Journal?	Blog Post The Gondos Company, a general contracting firm, designed which two famous hotels in Atlantic City, NJ?
Blog Post Organized in 1894 by prominent Philadelphia women, what club sought to promote “by education and active cooperation a higher public spirit and better public order”?	Blog Post These American Lives
Blog Post The ups and (mostly) downs of dealing with mold on paper via the Cope family papers	Photo Album George Washington Was Here
Blog Post Banker, Can You Spare a Dime?	Blog Post In 1926, how did Philadelphia celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
Video The Morreys and Montiers of Philadelphia: A Love Story	Blog Post What is the name of the longest running Polish American newspaper in Philadelphia?
Blog Post Getting From Paper Pages To Digital Texts	Audio Wanamaker's: Meet Me at the Eagle

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