Description: George A. Foreman scrapbooks on the Philadelphia Transportation Company

George A. Foreman scrapbooks on the Philadelphia Transportation Company

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Foreman, George A. (Creator)
Collection:	George A. Foreman Scrapbooks On the Philadelphia Transportation Company
Collection Number:	3267
Format:	Manuscript
Language:	English
Subjects and Genres:	Philadelphia Transportation Company Advertising, Outdoor > United States > History > 20th century. Floods > Pennsylvania > Johnstown (Cambria County). Local transit > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century. Local transit > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia. Photograph albums > 1930-1950. Photograph albums. Photographers > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia. Transportation > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History. Transportation > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History—20th century. Work environment—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—History—20th century.
Online Access:	Link to finding aid
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Physical Description:	0.33 Linear feet 1 box
Summary:	The collection consists of eighteen small scrapbook albums assembled by George A. Foreman which include photographs of Philadelphia Transportation Company elevated line workers in the early 1940s, Philadelphia public transit scenes, and holiday cards. There are also newspaper clippings, billboard advertisements, letters from coworkers serving in the military during World War II, picture postcards, and other ephemera. Additionally, one of the albums consists of photographs of the second Johnstown flood of 1936. The George A. Foreman scrapbooks on the Philadelphia Transportation Company consist of eighteen volumes pertaining primarily to the Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) and its employees, services, and equipment. The PTC was the main public transit operator in Philadelphia from 1940 to 1968. The vast majority of the photographs were taken by Charles Martini, another PTC employee, in the early 1940s. The photos are of PTC employees at work but also include Philadelphia transit scenes and views of the city from the Market-Frankford El. Most of the photographs include annotations by Foreman about the person, location, or object depicted. They shed light on local public transit, working conditions, social customs, fashions, urban living, and advertising particularly throughout the 1940s. They also show the evolution of Philadelphia during this same time. In addition to the photographs, there are many newspaper clippings in the albums, primarily from the Evening Bulletin and Public Ledger. Although the majority of these are obituaries of friends and colleagues, there are also clippings of articles profiling PTC employees, including Dorothy E. Williams, who became the first woman motorman in the history of the PTC in 1943. The volumes also contain holiday cards received by Foreman over the years, letters from coworkers serving in the military during World War II, photos of billboard advertisements, promotional materials for public transit companies, postcards received from friends and colleagues, and other ephemera. The postcards are contained almost exclusively in two volumes (Volumes 5 and 14) and many are annotated with information about the sender. Finally, there is one volume (Volume 3) that is unrelated to the PTC. It contains photos of the Johnstown flood of 1936 in Cambria County, Pennsylvania clipped from a book on the subject.

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0.33 Linear feet 1 box

Summary:

The collection consists of eighteen small scrapbook albums assembled by George A. Foreman which include photographs of Philadelphia Transportation Company elevated line workers in the early 1940s, Philadelphia public transit scenes, and holiday cards. There are also newspaper clippings, billboard advertisements, letters from coworkers serving in the military during World War II, picture postcards, and other ephemera. Additionally, one of the albums consists of photographs of the second Johnstown flood of 1936.
The George A. Foreman scrapbooks on the Philadelphia Transportation Company consist of eighteen volumes pertaining primarily to the Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) and its employees, services, and equipment. The PTC was the main public transit operator in Philadelphia from 1940 to 1968. The vast majority of the photographs were taken by Charles Martini, another PTC employee, in the early 1940s. The photos are of PTC employees at work but also include Philadelphia transit scenes and views of the city from the Market-Frankford El. Most of the photographs include annotations by Foreman about the person, location, or object depicted. They shed light on local public transit, working conditions, social customs, fashions, urban living, and advertising particularly throughout the 1940s. They also show the evolution of Philadelphia during this same time. In addition to the photographs, there are many newspaper clippings in the albums, primarily from the Evening Bulletin and Public Ledger. Although the majority of these are obituaries of friends and colleagues, there are also clippings of articles profiling PTC employees, including Dorothy E. Williams, who became the first woman motorman in the history of the PTC in 1943. The volumes also contain holiday cards received by Foreman over the years, letters from coworkers serving in the military during World War II, photos of billboard advertisements, promotional materials for public transit companies, postcards received from friends and colleagues, and other ephemera. The postcards are contained almost exclusively in two volumes (Volumes 5 and 14) and many are annotated with information about the sender. Finally, there is one volume (Volume 3) that is unrelated to the PTC. It contains photos of the Johnstown flood of 1936 in Cambria County, Pennsylvania clipped from a book on the subject.

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