The perennial Philadelphians; the anatomy of an American aristocracy.

The perennial Philadelphians; the anatomy of an American aristocracy.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Burt, Nathaniel, 1913-2003.
Edition:[1st ed.].
Imprint:Boston, Little, Brown [1963]
Description:xiv, 625 pages illustrations, portraits, maps (on lining papers) 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Upper class -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Manners and customs.
Upper class.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1961342
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Physical medium:8vo.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 604-608).
Other form:Online version: Burt, Nathaniel, 1913-2003. Perennial Philadelphians. [1st ed.]. Boston, Little, Brown [1963]
Table of Contents:
  • "Thar' she blows"
  • Myths
  • Position
  • "Not"
  • Recherche and solid
  • The middle of the middle
  • Family
  • "Where scrapples eat biddle"
  • Later biddles
  • Others
  • Born retired
  • Plain and fancy
  • Home and away
  • 1740 and all that
  • Ivy
  • Country club
  • Rights of passage
  • Sacred professions
  • Medicine
  • Chaste fellowship
  • Law
  • Chancellors
  • Outsiders
  • Forensic eloquence
  • Grand old men
  • Insurance: the memory of Washington
  • Banking: "Saviors of their country"
  • In Girard we trust
  • Family firms
  • Rusty cranes
  • The iron potts
  • The iron triangle II: railroads
  • The iron triangle III: coal
  • Petty kings
  • Whither?
  • The list
  • Boards
  • Boards: worthwhile
  • Facts & things
  • F.B.F.F. & O.
  • The first library
  • Offspring
  • "Speed the plough"
  • Boards: ornamental
  • Clubs
  • Sons and daughters
  • City troop
  • "It is proposed ..."
  • Sports: "The unspeakable and the uneatable"
  • The Schuylkill Navy
  • Sticky wickets
  • The cuckoo
  • Humane and eccentric
  • Boeotia
  • Bishop's length and kit-cat
  • Illustrators
  • A.A. (after the armory)
  • The royal succession
  • Boards: aesthetic
  • Art and argyrol
  • Monuments
  • Killed by kindness
  • The three b's
  • Brandywiners-and others
  • The Mitchell coterie
  • Post-war
  • God helps those ...
  • Carey and Lea
  • 1792 and all that
  • Sacred few
  • 1728 and all that
  • Nearly everybody
  • Theatre
  • Poor players
  • "It's good to be home"
  • Philadelphia story
  • Music
  • Philanthropy
  • The academy
  • Brown velvet
  • Opera
  • Why, Why?
  • Amateurs
  • Professionals
  • The dance
  • Exordium
  • The sciences
  • Living
  • The world of Eberlein
  • With the sun
  • North of market
  • Suburbia in excelsis
  • Home away from home
  • C and c
  • Renaissance
  • Redevelopment
  • Minorities
  • Erin go up
  • Sine nob
  • Gentry
  • "Sacred honor
  • Madeira from sour grapes.

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