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Philadelphia and its Manufactures— Jacob Hellman, Phillip Taylor

August 20th, Art in Age of Mechanical Reproduction.– Pretty tickled by this presentation. Jacob [i.e. speaker Jacob Hellman] and I have, on numerous occasions, swapped ideas on the arcane beauty of both former Philadelphian industry and its currently-aching hell-neighborhoods. But rather than getting lost in the mythos and delirium, as I always have, Jacob remained admirably embedded in the history of it all; drawing from research, anecdotes, and his definitive resource, Philadelphia and its Manufactures, by Edwin T. Freedley.

Learning from the past–lecture on Philadelphia manufacturing

artblog contributor Jacob Hellman will be giving a lecture this Thursday about a project he’s been “mildly obsessed” about for the last two years, the history of Philadelphia as a manufacturing powerhouse.  Hellman, an artist and activist, discovered an 1859 book, Philadelphia and its Manufactures, and he’s been tracking down old factories and taking pictures of their ruination ever since.