{"id":391,"date":"2015-10-22T20:49:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T20:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/?p=391"},"modified":"2015-10-24T13:04:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T13:04:38","slug":"researching-the-built-environment-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/2015\/10\/22\/researching-the-built-environment-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Researching the Built Environment &#8211; Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing research in Philadelphia is challenging.\u00a0 We <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/files\/2015\/10\/Poster11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-397 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/files\/2015\/10\/Poster11-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Poster1\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/files\/2015\/10\/Poster11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/files\/2015\/10\/Poster11-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/files\/2015\/10\/Poster11.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nhave a wealth of resources&#8211;excellent archives, and lots of them.\u00a0 In fact, there are so many repositories, so many stakeholders, so many handlers of records, and layers upon layers of city infrastructure to wade through, that everyone could use a guide.<\/p>\n<p>After spending years sifting through different kinds of records, housed in city, private, and public archives to professionally research the history of Philadelphia\u2019s built environment, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultureworksphila.org\/member\/4179\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lynn Alpert\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0is an excellent guide.\u00a0 Lynn is a cochair\u00a0of the Young Friends of the Preservation Alliance and a working public and architectural historian in the Philadelphia area.<\/p>\n<p>Join us for a workshop that will acquaint us all new resources, tools, and collections\u2014and importantly broaden our research through the investigation of the built environment of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Event is sponsored by the Barnes Club and Temple\u2019s Center for Public History.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 23<\/p>\n<p>Anderson Hall, Room 821( Women\u2019s Studies Lounge)<\/p>\n<p>4:00-5:30<\/p>\n<p>with pizza provided by the Barnes Club and happy hour after<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Hilary Lowe, <a href=\"mailto:hilowe@temple.edu\">hilowe@temple.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Investigating: <\/b><b>infrastructure, wills, historical societies, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the Philadelphia Historical Commission, the Athenaeum, <\/b><b>census, deeds, archives, map, city plans, business directories, City, state, federal <\/b><b>records <\/b><b>groups, highways, buildings\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing research in Philadelphia is challenging.\u00a0 We have a wealth of resources&#8211;excellent archives, and lots of them.\u00a0 In fact, there are so many repositories, so many stakeholders, so many handlers of records, and layers upon layers of city infrastructure to wade through, that everyone could use a guide. After spending years sifting through different kinds &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}