Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: A Revised and Enlarged Philadelphia; PART I: LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILADELPHIA; Prelude: I Went Out to the Centennial; 1 The Most Traversed City by Railways in This Country, If Not the World; 2 Such a Well-Behaved Train Station; 3 A Pretty Friendly Sort of Place; 4 A Sober Paper; Interlude: Went to Willow Grove; PART II: EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILADELPHIA; The New Century: The Magnificent Metropolis of Today; 5 If Dad Could Not Get ... the Evening Bulletin It Was Practically the End of the World
6 We Never Realized That Department Stores Had an Upstairs7 One Great Big Stretch of Middle Class; Postlude: Albion and I Went to the Sesqui; Conclusion: The Trouble with History; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z
Summary
""Hepp examines areas of everyday living as opposed to the more traditional studies of politics, focusing on transportation, newspapers, department stores, and parks.""--Choice
