Posts tagged with “John Lewis Krimmel”

Window on a Lost But Radiant Time

6 February 2012

The year 1818, economy crashing, American art up for grabs…Peale’s museum is failing…to make up for the lost income he attempts to turn his farm Belfield into a cotton mill…an act with tragic consequences…

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Careful! No Diving

1 July 2007

But we soon got to talking about the forty-odd creeks that — filled with sewage, industrial pollution, and disease (cholera and typhoid, among others) — Philadelphia long ago buried in pipes underground.

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