🌄 The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports,.
Philadelphia: J. & T. Doughty.

An adult male swan is called a cob & an adult female is a pen. Young r called swanlings. C the beautiful bird in https://t.co/GjcWRVcwdP

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Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931), selected illustrations for “Old French Fairy Tales” by Comtesse De Ségur (Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, c.1920),

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Philadelphia rescinds its mask mandate, hours after Mayor Kenney defended it. Tough letting go of power.

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Pictured: A painting of the Terran Ecumenopolis occupying the land of what was antehistoric Philadelphia. Visible in the lower left corner is the remnants of the original skyline of what was known as "Center City". The East-Atlantic Cathedral is visible in the background.

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[1846] 20 APRIL OR BEFORE. PHILADELPHIA. Godey’s for May contains “The Literati of New York City: Some Honest Opinions at Random Respecting Their Autorial Merits, with Occasional Words of Personality.”

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🌎 North American herpetology:
Philadelphia, J. Dobson;1842.
https://t.co/mSLOygmye5

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Philadelphia needs a district attorney that protects citizens, not criminals.

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Calendar fan, 1894. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Woman's hat by Jeanne Lanvin, 1920. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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!!! Just chucking a couple of my lads in!! Since its not on their ref the bottom two are Philadelphia on the left (mudwing) and Warble on the right (Sky/Night)

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Consistent with the newest guidelines from the City of Philadelphia, beginning Monday, April 18, masks will be required for all Museum visitors and event attendees. Until that date, masks are strongly encouraged.

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🌎 North American herpetology:
Philadelphia, J. Dobson;1842.
https://t.co/kdcqAJ4Dh8

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Mary Gehr (1910–1997) was an American painter & illustrator who studied at Smith College, the School of the Art Inst of Chicago & Institute of Design Illinois Inst of Tech.
Her work is in Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art & the Library of Congress

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Here look I'll bribe you with a squid, I know that's what you're here for.

Go like those tweets in which i try to get people to get politically active in Philadelphia. Don't tell the algorithm I sent you.

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Lion with a Female Face, 18th c. At Philadelphia Museum

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April 12, 1787: Richard Allen organized the Free African Society in Philadelphia, a beneficial and moral reform society among free blacks.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV

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