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Historic Philadelphia

From the Founding Until the Early 19th Century, Papers Dealing with Its People and Buildings with an Illustrative Map, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 43, Part 1)
  • Edited by: Luther P. Eisenhart
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1953

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Includes a large drawing of a map showing the location of present and past buildings of Old Philadelphia in the area bounded by Vine, Lombard, Seventh Streets, and the Delaware River. This map is published together with a number of articles each dealing with a particular subject related to the map. A copy of the map is placed at the back of this volume. In each article, when a building is mentioned which is referred to on the map, there is an indication as to where it may be found. Illustrations. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

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    Frontmatter

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    PREFACE

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    CONTENTS

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    THE INDEPENDENCE HALL GROUP

    7
    Eduard M. Riley
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    PHILOSOPHICAL HALL

    43
    William E. Lingelbach
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    THE OLDEST BANK BUILDING IN THE UNITED STATES

    70
    James O. Wettereau
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    THE SECOND BANK OF THE UNITED STATES

    80
    Bray Hammound
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    THE PHILADELPHIA EXCHANGE: WILLIAM STRICKLAND, ARCHITECT

    86
    Agnes Addison Gilchrist
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    CARPENTERS' HALL

    96
    Charles E. Peterson
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    LIBRARY HALL: HOME OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA 1790-1880

    129
    Charles E. Peterson
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    FRANKLIN'S HOME

    148
    Edward M. Riley
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    190, HIGH STREET (Market Street below Sixth)

    161
    Harold Donaldson Eberlein
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    THE CHARITY SCHOOL, THE ACADEMY, AND THE COLLEGE

    179
    William L. Turner
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    CHRIST CHURCH, ST. PETER'S, AND ST. PAUL'S

    187
    Robert W. Shoemaker
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    ST. JOSEPH'S AND ST. MARY'S CHURCHES

    199
    Dennis C. Kurjack
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    QUAKER LANDMARKS IN EARLY PHILADELPHIA

    210
    Edwin B. Bronner
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    THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES OF OLD PHILADELPHIA

    217
    Reverend Alexander Mackie
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    ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH The Cradle of American Methodism

    230
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    THE PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL

    237
    Edward B. Krumbhaar
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    PHILADELPHIA'S EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES

    247
    Nicholas B Wainwright
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    PEALE'S MUSEUM

    253
    Charles Coleman Sellers
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    THE ATHENAEUM

    260
    Asthur M. Kennedy
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    THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA

    266
    Maurice E. Philips
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    THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA

    275
    Henry Butler Allen
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    HOUSES AND EARLY LIFE IN PHILADELPHIA

    280
    Grant Miles Simon
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    TWO CENTURIES OF PHILADELPHIA ARCHITECTURE 1700-1900

    289
    Robert C. Smith
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    MARKET HOUSES IN HIGH STREET

    304
    Agned Addison Gilchrist
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    THE THEATRE AND THE DRAMA IN OLD PHILADELPHIA

    313
    Arthur Hobdon Quinn
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    THE TAVERNS OF COLONIAL PHILADELPHIA

    318
    Robert Erle Graham
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    PHILADELPHIA PRISONS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

    326
    Thorsten Sellin
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    CORRECTIONS ON THE MAP

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