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MapTo the citizens of Philadelphia, this new plan of the city and its environs is respectfully dedicated by the editor Relief shown by hachures. Selected buildings shown pictorially. Includes indexes and illustrations. State number II, according to Wheat & Brun. Shows some landowners. LC Ward maps, 171 Wheat & Brun 1969, 465 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Varle, Charles
- Date: 1802-01-01
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MapBird's eye view of Philadelphia. Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 827 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 651/1; 710/2
- Contributor: Bachmann, John - P.S. Duval & Son - Weik, John
- Date: 1857-01-01
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MapMap of railroad line commencing at a point on the West-Philadelphia R.R. 4 miles below its junction with the Columbia R.R. & terminating at the R.R. bridge at Gray's Ferry; showing it ... The distance and cost of grading is tabulated at the lower right of the map. The area covered is along Mill Creek and from the Lancaster Pike to Schuylkill River.
- Contributor: West Philadelphia Rail Road Company - Howell, Courtland D.
- Date: 1849-01-01
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MapInsurance maps of the city of Philadelphia.
Maps of the city of Philadelphia | Insurance maps of the suburbs of Philadelphia | Insurance maps, suburbs of Philadelphia Some atlases surveyed by Ernest Hexamer & William Locher. Some atlases surveyed and drawn by Ernest Hexamer. Some atlases surveyed and drawn by Ernest Hexamer & Son. Orientation varies. Described in unpublished index to non-Sanborn fire insurance maps in Geography & Map Division Reading Room. Annotations in pencil and colored pencil on most maps. Amendments pasted on most maps. Available also through the Library...- Contributor: Locher, William - E. Hexamer & Son - Hexamer, Ernest
- Date: 1857-01-01
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MapA description of two lotts in the city of Philadelphia, the one belonging to the Proprietary, William Penn, the other to his daughter, Lætitia Penn, together with the streets & lotts bounding ... Scale ca. 1:600. Alternate title: Fac-simile of the original plat of the lots assigned to William and Lætitia Penn, drawn 23d of the 12th month 1698, and recovered 4th of 9th month 1882. Has watermark. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Cadastral map showing landowners' names. Facsimile of a manuscript. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....
- Contributor: Boogher, William Fletcher - Penington, Edward - Penn, Letitia - Penn, William
- Date: 1882-01-01
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MapPhiladelphia of to-day. Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 830 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes "Penna R.R. directory of terminals in Philadelphia." AACR2: 651/1
- Contributor: Burk & McFetridge
- Date: 1887-01-01
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MapRoute of a proposed railroad from Powelton, West Philad'a, to the Philad'a gas works and thence to the River Delaware Outline map of Philadelphia and vicinity showing different railroad lines and depots. Below "Line E" on the map is the following statement. "Surveyed by Edw. H. Saunders, Nov. 1856."
- Contributor: Kollner, Augustus
- Date: 1856-01-01
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MapPhiladelphia, 1876 : chromatic view Oriented with north toward the lower left. Panorama. Shows the Centennial International Exhibition grounds. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
- Contributor: Inger, Christian - Hensel, D.
- Date: 1876-01-01
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MapPhiladelphia in 1888. Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Shows terminals and routes for "Penna R.R.," "Phila. & Reading R.R.," and "B&O. R.R." LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 831 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 651/1
- Contributor: Burk & McFetridge
- Date: 1888-01-01
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MapPhiladelphia (the most densely settled portion). Street map of city center and adjacent western districts. Publication data from t.p. of encyclopedia volume. Map removed from 1894 Werner ed. of: The Encyclopædia Britannica, a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literature with new maps ... with American revisions and additions. Vol. XVIII (between p. 739-740). LC copy imperfect: Lacks street index. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as...
- Contributor: Werner Company (Chicago, Ill.)
- Date: 1894-01-01
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MapMap of a reconnoissance [sic] of the approaches to Philadelphia showing the positions and lines of defence on the west front of the city Topographic map of western Philadelphia and small adjacent parts of Montgomery and Delaware counties showing 1st- and 2nd-order Civil War earthworks and batteries. Relief shown by contours, hachures, and spot heights. Pen-and-ink, red ink (contours), and watercolors. Former ownership rubber-stamping to left of title: U.S.C. & G. Survey, Library and Archives, no. 1. "Acc. no. 54399" and "854 ST 1863" (former Coast Survey numbers)...
- Contributor: Whiting, Henry L. - United States Coast Survey - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas)
- Date: 1863-01-01
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MapTo the Honourable House of Representatives of the Freemen of Pennsylvania this map of the city and liberties of Philadelphia with the catalogue of purchasers is humbly dedicated by their most obedient ... Scale 1:19,800; 100 perches to an in. Cover title: Reed's map of Phila. "Facsimile of Reeds map reproduced by the anastatic process. 200 copies only printed & the plates destroyed." Cadastral map showing land ownership. Hand colored. In lower left corner of cartouche: G. Worley. Includes inset of "A ground plan of the city of Philadelphia," text, lists of land purchasers, and illustrations. LC...
- Contributor: Smith, Lloyd P. (Lloyd Pearsall) - Reed, John
- Date: 1846-01-01
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MapPlan of the city of Philadelphia and adjoining districts : shewing the existing and contemplated improvements Scale ca. 1:6,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Shows wards and built-up. Indexed. Accompanied by: Index to the new plan of Philadelphia and adjoining districts, with references to find the streets, public buildings, etc. (vi, 44, 16 p. ; 15 cm.) Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 100; 651/1; 700/2
- Contributor: Allen, William - Dawson, E. B. - Tanner, Henry Schenck
- Date: 1830-01-01
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MapPhiladelphia General street map of the compact central districts of Philadelphia. Hand col. to show administrative wards (numbered). Title from upper border of map. Map "Copyright, 1883, by O.W. Gray & Son". Includes hand col. insets at scale ca. 1:92,000: Outline map of the county and city of Philadelphia and vicinity -- North-eastern part of Twenty-third Ward. Available also through the Library of Congress Web...
- Contributor: O.W. Gray & Son - J. Gopsill's Sons
- Date: 1883-01-01
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MapCity & county map of New-York : Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City & the adjacent waters
City and county map of New-York City street map showing built-up areas, streetcar/railroad lines, river piers (numbered, proprietors identified), municipal wards (numbered), and projected street-system grid to the northern end of Manhattan Island.- Contributor: Lyne, James - Fillmore, Millard - J.H. Colton & Co
- Date: 1857-01-01
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MapPhiladelphia in 1886. Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Differs from other edition in illus. of commercial buildings. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 829.2 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes indexes and illus. of notable commercial buildings. AACR2
- Contributor: Burk & McFetridge
- Date: 1885-01-01
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MapBird's-eye view of the city of Philadelphia --its streets, avenues, and public buildings--and of the Centennial buildings in Fairmount Park. Perspective map not drawn to scale. "Supplement to Frank Leslie's Illustrated newspaper, no. 1059." LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 829 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. AACR2
- Contributor: Leslie, Frank
- Date: 1876-01-01
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MapBirds eye view of Philadelphia and vicinity showing location of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 827.2 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
- Date: 1870-01-01
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MapPhiladelphia 100 years ago. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Varte, P. C. - J. Toudy & Co
- Date: 1875-01-01
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MapGeneral diagram : [western Philadelphia city and adjacent portions of Delaware and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania]. Topographic map showing proposed and existing Civil-War batteries and defensive positions immediately west of Philadelphia. Relief shown by contours and hachures. Title from southern sheet. Partial tracing of the 1863 ms. topographic map showing 1st- and 2nd-class fortifications at Philadelphia (CW 358.22). Oriented with north to the right. Pen-and-ink, red ink (contours), and watercolors. Drawn in 2 segments (sheets): [Northern] -- [Southern]. "No. 2866"...
- Contributor: United States Coast Survey - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas)
- Date: 1863-01-01
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MapA map of the county of Philadelphia : from actual survey Shows rural buildings and occupants' names. Relief shown by hachures. LC Land ownership maps, 784 Includes text, population table, and inset "Plan of the city of Philadalphia". Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Ellet, Charles
- Date: 1843-01-01
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MapMap of a reconnaissance of the approaches to Philadelphia showing the positions and lines of defence on the north front of the city Topographic map of northern Philadelphia and small adjacent part of Montgomery County showing Civil War earthworks and batteries. Relief shown by contours and hachures. Signed in handwriting (brown ink): George Davidson, Assistant Engineer Fortifications. Pen-and-ink, red ink (contours), and watercolors. Former ownership rubber-stamping at foot of title: U.S.C. & G. Survey, Library and Archives, no. 126. "No. 2868X" and "854W 1863" (former Coast Survey...
- Contributor: Davidson, George - Fauntleroy, A. R. - United States Coast Survey - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas)
- Date: 1863-01-01
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MapAn outline of the newly consolidated city, showing the boundaries of the wards : according to the act passed by the Legislature, Jany. 31st, 1854 Scale not given. Hand colored. "Entered according to act of Congress in February 1854, by R. L. Barnes, in the Clerk's Office of the Distt. Ct. of the Eastn. Dt. of Penna." Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 100; 650/1; 651/2
- Contributor: Barnes, Rufus L.
- Date: 1854-01-01
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MapMap of Delaware Co. and the city of Philadelphia Shows real-property tracts and landowners' names in rural areas of the county and in the Province Island district of Philadelphia. Radial distances shown from Philadelphia City Hall. Depths shown by soundings. Hand col. to distinguish minor civil divisions (townships, boroughs, cities) and numbered wards in Philadelphia. Also shows grounds of "International Exposition" in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. "Entered according to act of Congress in the...
- Contributor: Hopkins, Griffith Morgan - G.M. Hopkins & Co - Bourquin, F. (Frederick) - Busch, Edward
- Date: 1876-01-01
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MapDedicated to the city of Philadelphia through the directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; plan no. 2. exhibits the streets with the present railroads removed; the red lines show the proposed location ... Street map of Philadelphia and vicinity showing proposed railroads.
- Contributor: Hoxsie, S. K.
- Date: 1858-01-01