Philadelphia
Details
- Names
Philadelphia
City of Brotherly Love
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located at confluence of Delaware and Schuylkill rivers; Quaker town was founded by W Penn; was thriving colonial center & active in American Revolution; later lost political and financial prestige to Washington & New York; was a strong anti-slavery power.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
- Born
Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976)
F.O.C. Darley (American, 1822-1888)
Stuart Davis (American, 1892-1964)
William Stanley Haseltine (American, 1835-1900)
Mary Ellen Mark (American, 1940-2015)
John S. de Martelly (American, 1903-1979)
Jim Morphesis (American, born 1948)
Jean Schonwalter (American, 1919-1998)
Leroy Setziol (American, 1915-2005)
Charles Sheeler (American, 1883-1965)
Richard Peter Stankiewicz (American, 1922-1983)
- Active
Susan Bank (American, born 1938)
Ray K. Metzker (American, 1931-2014)
Arnold Newman (American, 1918-2006)
- Died
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