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The Students' Magazine, published monthly, at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind (Philadelphia: Printed on the Institution Press, M. Snider, printer, 1838). Photo courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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Library Company of Philadelphia

Most meetinghouses are ¼ of the size of the Arch Street Meeting House, which is so large because it was constructed to hold an annual meeting of Quakers from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware. Photo by Brian Kutner.
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Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust

Photo by Hank Willis Thomas and Wyatt Gallery, courtesy of Philly Block Project.
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TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image

Drexel University, Great Court, Main Building. Photo by Halkin/Mason Photography. Courtesy of Drexel University Westphal College.
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Drexel University Westphal College

The Fairmount Water Works Today: A 21st Century Inspiration, 2014, architectural illustration. Courtesy of Fairmount Water Works.
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Fund for the Water Works

A group of activists held the first organized civil rights demonstrations in front of Independence Hall and Liberty Bell in Philadelphia on July 4, 1965. Photo © Mattachine Society.
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Independence Visitor Center Corporation

Painting by student of Olney Charter School for a Mural Arts program designed to teach about the history of Philadelphia's 7th Ward. Courtesy of the Mayors Fund for Philadelphia.
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The Philadelphia City Fund

The Summer Winter Community Garden at 32nd and Summer Streets in Philadelphia, a community garden supported through Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS). Photo courtesy of PHS.
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Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Martha McDonald, Songs of Memory and Forgetting. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
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RAIR

The Woodlands grounds during a summer event. Photo by Molly Dixon.
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The Woodlands Trust for Historic Preservation

The highlight of The Franklin Institute's Joel N. Bloom Observatory is the 10-inch Zeiss refracting telescope. Courtesy of The Franklin Institute.
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The Franklin Institute

Please Touch Museum, American to Zanzibar, musical instruments popular in Muslim cultures. Photo courtesy of Please Touch Museum.
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Please Touch Museum

Bluebird, world premiere translation and adaptation by Lane Savadove of the 1908 children’s play L’Oiseau Bleu by Maurice Maeterlinck, 2009. Photo by Jules Victor.
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EgoPo Classic Theater

Guitarist Sonny Troy in performance at the 2015 Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Concert Series. Photo by Anthony Dean.
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Jazz Bridge

Pavi Jaisankar speaks at a SAADA Community Forum at the Asian Arts Initiative in front of a photograph of Dr. Anandibai Joshee, the first South Asian woman in the world to earn a degree in medicine, 2013. Photo by Vivek G. Bharathan.
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South Asian American Digital Archive

Gideon Turner in The Lamellar Project. Photo by Alex Harvery-Brown
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Tiny Dynamite

The sold-out audience at \Gospel Meets Symphony
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DataArts

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Center City Opera Theater

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Chamber Music Now

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The Design Center at Philadelphia University

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West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

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Relâche

Megawords newsstand, 2010. Photo courtesy of the artists.
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Megawords

Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, The Wall, 2013, salvaged window frames from demolished Beijing dwellings, mirrored glass. Photo by Matthew Suib/Greenhouse Media, courtesy of the Philadelphia Art Alliance.
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Philadelphia Art Alliance