“Mayor Bernard Samuel addressed about 1000 persons at Independence Hall ceremonies in honor of ‘I Am An American Day’ yesterday afternoon. To impress new citizens with the meaning of liberty in America, the Mayor struck the Liberty Bell 13 times, a stroke for each of the original colonies.”
May 20, 1946
Philadelphia Record Photo Morgue (V07)
Mayor Bernard Samuel Addresses Crowd

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Mayor Bernard Samuel Addresses Crowd
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- Celebrating Citizenship
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- Ancient Order of Hibernians of the state of Pennsylvania incorporation certificate
- Fatou N’Diaye
- Judith Schweyer birth and baptismal certificate
- Map of proposed Chinatown Development and fact sheet
- Pennsylvania Railroad temporary employees from Mexico
- Reveler from the 1924 Mummers Parade
- Nativism and Xenophobia
- Making Americans
- An Americanization Program
- Classroom at Matthias W. Baldwin School circa 1936
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- Leonard Covello, A High School and Its Immigrant Community: A Challenge and an Opportunity
- Students saluting the flag
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