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In collaboration with the Black Writers Museum, Germantown Historical Society and Historic Germantown, we are raising funds to
develop and produce the “Souvenir of Germantown Walking Tour”.
A rare, small pamphlet that was created in 1913 to commemorate Black Achievements over the 50 years since Emancipation.
It featured a series of photographs with captions related to African American history in Germantown.
It featured a series of photographs with captions related to African American history in Germantown.
The pamphlet was the work of John Gordon Baugh, Jr., printer and publisher. His father had been a caterer in the city –according to W.E.B. DuBois,
“catering was the Negro’s surest route to something like prosperity in 19th-century Philadelphia” – and about 1880 bought a substantial house at Duval and Jefferson (now Cherokee) Streets.
“catering was the Negro’s surest route to something like prosperity in 19th-century Philadelphia” – and about 1880 bought a substantial house at Duval and Jefferson (now Cherokee) Streets.
