{"id":4750,"date":"2022-08-03T20:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:40:48","slug":"dog-days-of-summer-in-philadelphia-1928-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/2022\/08\/03\/dog-days-of-summer-in-philadelphia-1928-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Days of Summer in Philadelphia, 1928-1981"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/10\/p15037coll3_45245_kids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/10\/p15037coll3_45245_kids.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/10\/p15037coll3_45245_kids.jpg 499w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/10\/p15037coll3_45245_kids-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">1981, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/library.temple.edu\/scrc\">Special Collections Research Center<\/a> is pleased to present our latest pop-up exhibit \u201cDog Days of Summer in Philadelphia, 1928-1981.\u201d This fun and whimsical exhibit features items from the <em>Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Photograph<\/em> and News Clipping collections, the Urban Archives Pamphlet Collection, and the Newspaper Illustration Collection documenting how Philadelphians keep cool and have fun in the summer months. This exhibit was curated by student intern Abigail Boyer and will be on display in the SCRC reading room through August.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;Brenda Galloway-Wright, Associate Archivist, SCRC<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/10\/08032022Scan-Summer1024_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"463\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/10\/08032022Scan-Summer1024_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/10\/08032022Scan-Summer1024_1.jpg 463w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/10\/08032022Scan-Summer1024_1-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jumping into the Delaware River, 9\/23\/1955, Newspaper Illustrations Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/10\/p15037coll3_64634_medium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/10\/p15037coll3_64634_medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/10\/p15037coll3_64634_medium.jpg 499w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/10\/p15037coll3_64634_medium-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Horse that Likes Vanilla, July 31, 1975, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to present our latest pop-up exhibit \u201cDog Days of Summer in Philadelphia, 1928-1981.\u201d This fun and whimsical exhibit features items from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Photograph and News Clipping collections, the Urban Archives Pamphlet Collection, and the Newspaper Illustration Collection documenting how Philadelphians keep cool and have fun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/2022\/08\/03\/dog-days-of-summer-in-philadelphia-1928-1981\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dog Days of Summer in Philadelphia, 1928-1981<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":987,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,87,16,6,86],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-news","tag-history-news","tag-news-clippings","tag-philadelphia-history","tag-top-news","tag-urban-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5390,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}