National Treasure: Progress and the Past
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Berry, Kelley & Chadwick, Broad Street and Philadelphia’s New Sky-Scrapers, 1906.
Berry, Kelley & Chadwick, Broad Street and Philadelphia’s New Sky-Scrapers, 1906.
The title reveals a celebratory consciousness of change in the physical landscape of an urban environment, and of Philadelphia in particular. The street and traffic are literally in the shadows of these new, towering buildings. They define the space around them and seem to herald modernity. Broad Street stretches out into the distance and seems unending, a symbol of the life of the city of Philadelphia, with an uncertain, but open future.