Happy birthday to educator, activist, and artist Sarah Mapps Douglass, born in 1806! Douglass was a founding member of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Association & a skilled botanical artist. Her paintings are the earliest surviving work signed by a Black woman.

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Cover illustration for Philadelphia City Paper.

"Rocky" Stallone, of course.

Guy above net is filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan.

Front left with sand bucket is former governor Ed Rendell.

I've forgotten the others!!

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Ethel Franklin Betts was born on this day, September 6, in 1877.

This Philadelphia native studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; she was mentored by Howard Pyle; and she was a well-known illustrator in the early 1900’s.

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Morning! I'm Alana, an illustrator working Philadelphia. Last year was especially difficult with the pandemic going on but getting to experience this online convention felt like a silver-lining. Here's some of my artwork!
Edit: Missed the deadline, but I'd like to share anyway.

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🌎 North American herpetology:
Philadelphia, J. Dobson;1842.
https://t.co/HHYMCT8IZ0

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The cast of Evil Con Carne could do Always Sunny In Philadelphia and the cast of Always Sunny could do Evil Con Carne, fact is fact

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Visions of Philadelphia✨

9/3/21

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Sunny in Philadelphia voice: “can we talk about the rendering mac? I’ve been dying to talk to you about the rendering all day”

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[Review] In BOSTON METAPHYSICAL SOCIETY: THE SPIRIT OF REBELLION, from on August 25th, Caitlin and Samuel head to Philadelphia for a fresh start, but a worker's strike and a group of nefarious gangbusters force Caitlin to embrace her power

https://t.co/jYsno7Axt9

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26 Aug 1778 Philadelphia, PA A member of the British Carlisle Commission, George Johnstone is ordered home for attempting to bribe Congressmen Joseph Reed, Robert Morris & Francis Dana. The peace commission ended in failure.

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David Pedrick is an American, Philadelphia based musician, composer and sound artist:

https://t.co/lQqeTWLbdK

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Jake Gyllenhaal will star in and produce 'Oblivion Song'

It is an adaptation of the comic from Robert Kirkman

The story takes place a decade after 300K citizens of Philadelphia were lost in a cataclysmic event and the protagonist makes daily trips to find those lost

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In West Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground is where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin' all cool
And all shootin' some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys who were up to no good
Started makin' trouble in my neighborhood

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Hi
I'm Morgan, a picture book illustrator from the Philadelphia area. I illustrate digitally and I love animals of all kinds.

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I had a super fun weekend and Philadelphia is a pretty neat city!

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Bill Duckett Seated

This is a reproduction of a modification of “Bill Duckett Seated” of about 1889 by Thomas Eakins. The original photograph was taken at the Art Student’s League of Philadelphia: https://t.co/E8Gmbezkqb

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