Individual Film Price:

Higher Education Institutions & Government Agency DVD | $49.95
K-12 & Public Libraries DVD | $49.95
Home Video DVD License – Restrictions Apply | $5.95

Precious Places Compilation Price:

This video is available for purchase as part of a Precious Places Community History Project Vol. 10 compilation DVD.
 
Higher Education Institutions & Government Agency DVD | $139.00
K-12 & Public Libraries DVD | $79.00
Home Video DVD License – Restrictions Apply | $20.00

Scribe Video Center Program:

The Precious Places Community History Project is a community oral history project inviting members of the Philadelphia region's many neighborhoods to document the buildings, public spaces, parks, landmarks and other sites that hold the memories of our communities and define where we live. Precious Places teaches the video production process to participating groups, fostering projects authored by those who intimately know the featured neighborhoods.

Film Summary:

Stephen Smith Tower Apartments is an affordable senior housing complex is named for abolitionist Stephen Smith who had a church, farm, graveyard as well as passage for the underground railroad in Philadelphia in this location. It was home to many who escaped slavery before, during and after the Civil War. The site was also a meeting place for the anti-slavery movement which included Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, William Still and Lucretia Mott.