The Free Library of Philadelphia has gone above and beyond the call of duty with this collection which covers everything from Germantown to the Navy Yard. This cornucopia contains thousands of images from the Philadelphiana Collection at the Free Library, and most of them are from the second half of the 19th century. On the homepage, visitors will note that they can look around by Neighborhoods,...

For many decades, women who sought to become doctors were turned away at many institutions. This was not the case at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Beginning in 1850 the school trained thousands of women physicians who would later go on to teach in a diverse set of countries across the world. The story of these women and this institution is told in great detail through a set of...