Through a series of photo essays, this work evokes the mood of an era that embraced the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the complacent prosperity of the 1950s. The photos document physical changes in the metropolitan area: the developing skyline, the streets of rowhouses, the expanding suburbs.
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Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: A City in Transition 2. The Knife of the Depression 3. Family Album, 1920s and 1930s 4. The New Deal City 5. Homefront 6. Family Album, World War II 7. A Last Hurrah 8. The Enduring Rowhouse City 9. Family Album, 1945-1960 10. Metropolis Reshaped 11. The Spirit of the 1950s Sources Index