Elfreth's Alley Museum
Episode 2.08: Laboring Philadelphians

In our Season 2 finale, we look at the people who have been there throughout all of the other episodes—the laborers! We also try to consider what types of labor today share the physical toll and the meager wages with laborers of the past.

Elfreth's Alley Museum
Episode 2:01: The Mechanics' Lecture

In 1789, a pamphlet was published in Philadelphia, an ode to the "mechanics" of the world. In this introductory episode of Season 2, we tell the story of the author of this pamphlet and lay out our plan for the episodes to follow.

Podcast
Elfreth's Alley
Episode 1: The Dressmakers

In Episode 1 of The Alley Cast, Isabel Steven tells the story of three women who lived on Elfreth's Alley in the eighteenth century who worked as dressmakers. Steven explores us how these women made their living sewing clothes and invites us to imagine what their working and personal relationships might have been like.

Gender

Episode 3: The Public Universal Friend in Philadelphia

This week we begin with one of the widows on Elfreth's Alley, who housed a nonbinary Quaker minister titled the Public Universal Friend and the Friend's group of followers. Along the way we will talk about Quakerism, gender norms and gender variance in Philadelphia, explore how the Public Universal Friend's gender ambiguity and religious ideas unsettled societal norms and learn how the Friend navigated a city whose inhabitants who felt threatened by this queer gender expression.