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This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. As transgender and gender-nonconforming identities become more visible in medicine, policy, and the media, gender affirming medical care is increasingly seen as acceptable and necessary. Yet while childhood gender has long been the subject of clinical research, the impact of specialized medical care on young people and their families is poorly understood. Given the racialized and class-based...
The Children at 2925 Richmond Street and the Parents that Raised Them (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In archaeological research, often the most ignored subjects are children. This paper discusses children related artifacts, found at 2925 Richmond Street in Philadelphia, PA, including but not limited to children’s ceramic wares, medicine bottles, and toys. This paper strives to answer...
Cultural Resource Survey and Evaluation, U.S. Army Training Center and Fort Dix, Volume II: Technical Appendices - Appendix A (1985)
This document only contains Appendix A of the original report. Appendix A represents the results of the historic map search for potential historic sites within the boundaries of the USATCFD reservation. All potential sites are listed in table form. Each table references particular sites (generally farmsteads) to the historic maps in which they appear and each site is located on current USGS 7.5' topographic maps. The historic maps are located in the beginning of the appendix. The topographic...
Ethical Self-Cultivation Amongst Black Muslim Youth (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2020)
This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This dissertation explores the ethical self-cultivation of black Muslim youth in Philadelphia. Anthropologist Saba Mahmood describes ethical self-cultivation as a "specific sets of procedures, techniques, and exercises through which highly specific ethical-moral subjects come to be formed" (Mahmood, 2005, p.120). I consider this process as well as how it becomes racialized and gendered in the...
A GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY AT THE SITE OF GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH (1984)
Search for unmarked graves in Philadelphia for Michael Parrington and Daniel Roberts (John Milner Associates). Neither the radar nor conductivity survey was helpful.
A Grim Tale: Nutrition and Childhood Mortality in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Childhood mortality was a fact of life in the nineteenth century, with children succumbing to illnesses and issues at rates far greater than those seen today. The historical research done in conjunction with the archaeology for the I-95/Girard Avenue Interchange Project has identified...
A Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey at Four Sites North of Philadelphia (2001)
Surveys at Evans-Mumbower Mill, Peter Wentz Farmstead, Neshaminy Cemetery, and the Moland House; for the Millbrook Society.
Iron in the park: A magnetic survey (1980)
Search for an important iron facade of an old bulding that is now buried in a filled-in water reservoir in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia. Survey for Craig Blakely (Phila Hist Pres Corp).
A Magnetic Test at Fort Mifflin (1986)
A quick reconnaissance of a fort from the Revolutionary War that is south of Philadelphia. Survey for Fred Graf (Philadelphia Electric Co.).
Not Your Average Pine Box: A Glimpse Into 19th Century Coffin Wood From The First Presbyterian Church In Kensington (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We the People”: Historical Cemetery Archaeology in Philadelphia" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1816, the First Presbyterian Church in Kensington purchased lots along Montgomery Avenue for use as a cemetery. The burial ground was active from 1818 to 1841, but the church obtained a relocation permit in 1857 and sold the land to the City of Philadelphia in 1861. Today, a section of the former cemetery...