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The Print Center was founded in 1915 as The Print Club of Philadelphia by a group of art collectors and artists who wished to promote the art of printmaking. [2] Its first location was 219 South 17th Street in Philadelphia; but it moved to its current home in a late 19th Century carriage house at 1614 Latimer Street in 1918. [3]
Philadelphia Chinatown is a predominantly Asian American neighborhood in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation supports the area. The neighborhood stretches from Vine Street on the north, Arch Street on the south, North Franklin Street and N. 7th Street on the east, to North Broad Street on ...
Philadelphia English or Delaware Valley English is a variety or dialect of American English native to Philadelphia and extending into Philadelphia's metropolitan area throughout the Delaware Valley, including southeastern Pennsylvania, all of South Jersey, counties of northern Delaware (especially New Castle and Kent), and the north Eastern Shore of Maryland.
The Metro Chinese Weekly is a Chinese language newspaper that is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Published every Friday, it serves the Greater Philadelphia area, including Northern Delaware and Southern New Jersey, and is produced by New Mainstream Press, a publishing company that caters specifically to Asian-American communities.
Named after the Lenape word meaning "in the valley" or "in the valleys." [9] Philmont Ave: Named after the county line between Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties, which it runs along for part of its route (Phil + Mont). Pine Street: One of William Penn's streets named after trees, this one named after the pine tree. Race Street
Philadelphia Museum of Art at 2600 Benjamin Franklin Franklin Institute at 222 N. 20th Street National Constitution Center at Independence National Historical Park at 143 S. 3rd Street Eastern State Penitentiary at 2027 Fairmount Avenue Independence Seaport Museum at Penn's Landing Museum of the American Revolution at 101 South Third Street
The Odunde Festival is a one-day festival and mostly a street market catered to African-American interests and the African diaspora.It is derived from the tradition of the Yoruba people of Nigeria in celebration of the new year according to the Yoruba calendar or Kọ́jọ́dá, which usually falls on the first moon of June (Òkudù) on the Gregorian calendar.
1915 – The Print Club of Philadelphia, later to be re-named The Print Center, was founded in Philadelphia. It was one of the first venues in the country focused solely on the appreciation of prints. In 1942 The Print Center donated its collection of prints to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.