Centennial part 23--A Tiny Alley

After Christ Church, I consulted the map and realized I was quite close to Elfreth's Alley. Not truly part of the park system, but one of the earliest settled areas in Philadelphia. In fact you can still see the Fire Association markers on the houses dating back to the 18th century! And if you want a tiny link to the NPS, Ben Franklin was one of the city leaders who brought "modern" firefighting to Philadelphia.

The left page is wallpaper with a brick toned paper. I thought that appropriate to the venue! The right page is scraplifted from this image. The background paper is from Graphic 45. I bought quite a few sheets of that as it works well with all the historic photos I have. I think I purchased the brick on the left to use as the middle of this layout but I liked it for the houses better and I used a piece of brick colored cardstock for the center on the right. I chalked the edges with black ink to give it a little smoky essence. I trimmed the fire association photos to ovals to match the emblems and to fit more on one page. For that I used the CM oval custom cutting system templates.