Random Old Images of Philadelphia 1700s - 1900s

As someone born in Tacony, it really breaks my heart to see what Philadelphia was once like compared to the way it is now 😢

I am proud to have grown up in Philly, but I have moved on.

Thank you for these awesome photos. I believe that as time moved on some of these locations are the same with the usual upgrades to match the times that we live in. More please because it is very interesting to see the city that you call home. We always get caught up living our lives that we don't stop to realize the history of our cities. Well done Mr. Jack.

It would have been nice to know the locations of these photos tho as a Philly native most are familiar to me

That was an awesome presentation of old Philadelphia and surrounding areas. Thanks for sharing.

Fascinating

I've noticed that Philadelphia has a most unique style of architecture so unlike ours here in Chicago. I find that most interesting.

I saw my neighborhood in the 40s and my high school from the 30s. Thank you!

At 7:16 mark shows the old Hotel Powelton and that building stands today at N 40th Street. In 1902, young doctor Albert Barnes and chemist Hermann Hille rented rooms there to set up a makeshift pharmaceutical laboratory for producing Argyrol, a silver-derived treatment for gonorrhea and other infectious diseases. After Argyrol’s stupendous success, Barnes purchased the entire building and converted it into a full-blown factory. Picassos, Modiglianis, and de Chiricos hung on the walls. In other words, some of the Barnes Foundation’s most famous paintings made their American debuts on these walls.

I love viewing these old time videos of my hometown.... I can identify with a lot of these scenes from the 50s onward...those really were different times ....when you look at the situation today, well, to me, anyway, things on the whole, are a lot worse..

Great video.

Thank you for a fine video enjoyed it ROBBIE PHILADELPHIA PA FISHTOWN

What a great video. It would've been nice to post street names and/or location for point of reference.

Grew up in Juniata, but the family was from Kennsington. Some good memories here. Thx.

My ancestors arrived in port in the early 1720's. Philadelphia looks a lot like a European city and probably did right up through the 1950's.

I thought the first camera was invented in the 1800s so I was wondering how they got images from the 1700s. After some research I found out there was a invention from the 1600s called the camera obscura that allowed artists to draw very detailed images

Great shots, although documentation (place, year) would be very helpful.

strangely enough although most of these images are over 100 years old many of them are very familiar. there are copies of streets in different parts of the city that are still there. and the sixties only began the destruction of many of these places.

At the 6.50 mark we see the South Street Terminal of the Market Street Delaware Ave. El that opened in 1907 and demolished in 1939.

When houses were built strong.