Other people selected objects based more on their function and cost. Objects for drinking, dining, leisure, and personal care changed as customs and attitudes evolved. These material items provide insight into behavior in Philadelphia during the late eighteenth-century. Objects function as portholes into the past. They allow us to see larger cultural networks and systems of human relationships.
Material culture fills the economic and aesthetic gap left by oral histories and written records.
Envisioning those objects found at the excavation site of Franklin Court as relics of a time gone by, we can draw conclusions about life in late eighteenth-century cosmopolitan Philadelphia. Site maintained by Webmaster . Back to Independence Park .