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...an altercation with a black man during a riot on Columbia Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa., August 28, 1964.
"This riot was sparked by rumors that a black woman named Odessa Bradford. A fight with police following her arrest led to large scale looting and attacks on...
Police have an altercation with a black man on Columbia Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa., August 28, 1964.
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...Philadelphia headquarters in a storefront on Columbia Avenue, from which a group of young men and women went forth to sell the party's news paper and in other ways agitate for the Panthers" Ten Point Program, calling for ‘land, bread, housing, education, clothing,...
Members of the Black Panther Party, stripped, handcuffed, and arrested after Philadelphia police raided the Panther headquarters, August, 1970.
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...Gardner:
"You could just walk down Columbia Avenue and the music would be coming out of one place and out of another place and you'd just go from bar to bar. You go over to Café Society, you hear a set, you run up to the Zanzibar, you hear a set, you go down to...
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Country Barn Farm Market is located on Route 30 West of Lancaster, Centerville Road exit Left, Columbia Avenue Right, Donnerville Road Left. Open Year Round Mon-Fri 9-7PM Sat 9-6PM Sun 9-5PM.
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At Park on Delaware River, foot of Cecil B. Moore (Columbia)Avenue
Traditional site of a treaty between William Penn and the Indians, this park is maintained by the City of Philadelphia in commemoration of the Proprietor's peaceful relations with the Indians.
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Postcard of Columbia Avenue from Sherman Street, Vandergrift, PA, circa 1910.
In the early 1900s, George G. McMurty of the Apollo Iron and Steel Co. built a model industrial town with wide, curved streets and a village green on the banks of the Kiskiminetas River in Westmoreland County, based on plans by famed landscape architect Frederick Law...
Postcard of Columbia Avenue from Sherman, Vandergrift, Pa., circa 1910.
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Completion of the Fairmont Dam in 1821 created a three-mile stretch of smooth water on the lower Schuylkill River ideal for racing. Rowing began in earnest in September of 1835 when a pair of eight-oared barges representing the Imp and Blue Devil social clubs raced...
Crew boats and boatmen competition on the Schuylkill River near the Columbia Avenue railroad bridge.
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Postcard of Columbia Avenue, Vandergrift, PA., circa 1910.
In the early 1900s, George G. McMurtry's model town of Vandergrift provided model homes on tree lined streets for the skilled steel workers could afford them.
Postcard of Columbia Avenue from Sherman Street, Vandergrift, PA, depicts housing.
