Subjects Public Event

Tour or lecture or other event to which the public is invited. In the context of this website, this could mean either an event that has happened in the past or one that is scheduled for the future.

This Philadelphia street scene, with dogs facing off with pigs for a pile of tasty garbage, was captured by artist Augustus Kollner in 1844, but would have been very familiar to 18th-century Philadelphians.

“Town street scavengers from life,” Kollner, 1844

Congress Hall and New Theatre in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, 1800

Two black-and-white photographs of pipeline construction on State Road. Depicted are a group of people, trees, buildings, a fire hydrant and a grid of boards over the pipes.

State Road triple pipeline construction, 1904