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Vanishing Philadelphia: Ruins of the Quaker City (Lost)
Vanishing Philadelphia Ruins of the Quaker City - Lost Author:J. P. Webster In the City of American firsts the decaying ruins of some of its grandest and once prominent institutions are key to the story of Philadelphia. The evolution of the city can be traced in these buildings abandoned to the elements. Gears have not turned in decades in the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company; plants reclaim the rusted steel bones o... more »f the Frankford Arsenal; and startled pigeons shatter the deep silence in the Hale Building--such sites mark three centuries of progress and destruction in Penn's Holy Experiment. Photographer and historian J.P. Webster shares stunning photography of the slow destruction caused by neglect and the passage of time in Philadelphia's factories, schools and cemeteries. Discover a vanishing face of a city in the ruins of Philadelphia.« less