Description
Book SynopsisThrough a series of photo essays, this work evokes the mood of an era that embraced the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the complacent prosperity of the 1950s. The photos document physical changes in the metropolitan area: the developing skyline, the streets of rowhouses, the expanding suburbs.
Trade Review"Some 350 photos inform, fascinate and touch the heart." --The Philadelphia Daily News "This volume attempts to translate social history, the story of ordinary citizens, into a visual and readable form, and to show the impact of outside events on the city's history... [I]t is simply the best book of its kind that we've seen." --History of Photography "I loved both the pictures and the stories... They make a fine record of the period and reminded me of my whole life in Philadelphia." --E. Digby Baltzell "Miller, Vogel, and Davis have succeeded once more in making a thoughtful illustrated history of the city." --Sam Bass Warner
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: A City in Transition 2. The Knife of the Depression 3. Family Album, 1920s and 1930s 4. The New Deal City 5. Homefront 6. Family Album, World War II 7. A Last Hurrah 8. The Enduring Rowhouse City 9. Family Album, 1945-1960 10. Metropolis Reshaped 11. The Spirit of the 1950s Sources Index
