Tag Archives: Philadelphia

Green’s Hotel – 8th and Chestnut

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Tina Garceau

Here’s an advertisement for Green’s Hotel from the program/souvenir booklet for the play L’Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater back in 1901. Electric lights and modern conveniences! Tom Green created quite a stir … Continue reading →

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The Raths-Keller

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Tina Garceau

Here is this week’s ad taken from the program for the play L’Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater in 1901. The Raths-Keller was located in The Betz Building on Broad Street near Chestnut in Philadelphia. It was … Continue reading →

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The Gladstone

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Tina Garceau

I’m posting another ad taken from the program for the play L’Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater in 1901. This ad was for The Gladstone Apartment House built in 1895 by Philadelphia architect Theophilus … Continue reading →

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El Merito Makes Men Happy

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Tina Garceau

Here we have another advertisement from the program/souvenir booklet for the play L’Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater back in 1901. El Merito was a Cuban cigar manufactured by Boltz & Clymer – back when trade with Cuba … Continue reading →

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Great Expectations of a Whitman Sampler

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Tina Garceau

Here’s another advertisement from the program/souvenir booklet for the play L’Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater back in 1901. At first, I thought this was a pioneer advertisement for a push gift. You … Continue reading →

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The Quaker City Automobile Company

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Tina Garceau

Included with The Capewell Negative Collection was a box of odds and ends – mostly paperwork – but there was some really interesting things as well, such as picture postcards and this really wonderful playbill souvenir program from the Broad … Continue reading →

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Three Guys Walk Into A Bar…

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Mrs. Crankipants

and The Jewish fellow says to the Italian, “The Irish kid’s buyin’! His Old Man’s loaded!“ Spotted at a sidewalk sale in South Philadelphia.

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Goblin’ Up Cake

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Tina Garceau

It certainly wouldn’t be Halloween without a cake to celebrate the occasion! This spider topped beauty is giving me a case of Halloween-orexia! It has all of the necessary components of horror – a jack-o-lantern face, a dismembered arachnid, and … Continue reading →

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Vampire Blood!

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Joe_Williams

This was sort of a forbidden fruit for kids growing up in the early 1970s.

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