"The intersection of 48th Street and Cedar Avenue, 1907 and 2016. These large ""colonial revival/arts & crafts"" style homes were built for white collar upper middle class workers and their families, and had every modern convenience for the era, including electric lighting and steam heat. Kitchen stoves and furnaces were still coal-fired and had to be stoked by hand. Upper photograph by Steven Ujifusa, lower photograph a period postcard from Robert Morris Skaler's book ""West Philadelphia: University City to 52nd Street."""
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