Book/Printed Material The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described
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Image 1 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1853
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Image 2 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... Glass Book COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 6 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 8 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 9 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... PASSENGER TRAIN TIME TABLE. Leave Philadelphia from the Depot, Broad and Callowhill Street, at 7} A. M., and 3 J P. M. Daily Except Sundays, when an Excursion Train leaves at 7J...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 10 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... ^Ijilaurlpljiii imi) JlmMng Hailroa^ PASSENGER FARES AND DISTANCES. UP TRAINS 1 DOWN TRAINS. DUt. From PhilaoVa to FARES. No.l\No.2 Dist. From Pottsville to fares. No.l\No,2 3 1 Schl. Viaduct, .15 .10 1...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 11 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 12 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 13 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... 0?YR*C* THE PICTORIAL SKETCH-BOOK PENNSYLVANIA. OR ITS SCENERY, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, RESOURCES, AND AGRICULTURE, POPULARLY DESCRIBED, BY ELI BOWEN. AUTHOR OF IHE U. S. POST-OFFICE GUIDE, AND LATE OF THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE. illustrate...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 14 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by WILLIAM BROMWELL, in the Clerk s office of the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern Districi of Pennsylvania....- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 15 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... TO JOHN TUCKER, Esq., PRESIDENT OF THE READING RAILROAD, THE SCHUYLKILL VALLEY RAILROAD, ETC. ETC., THESE SKETCHES OF THE ANTHRACITE COAL REGIONS, AND THEIR PRINCIPAL OUTLET, ARE INSCRIBED AS A SLIGHT INTIMATION...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 16 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 17 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The present edition of the Pictorial Sketch Book/ it will be seen, contains the beautiful and celebrated poem of Campbell s Gertrude of Wyoming as originally promised....- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 18 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... 8 TREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. circumstance, that the proof-sheets were subsequently withheld from me, thereby admitting a series of errors, typographical and other- wise, to go forth uncorrected in the first...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 19 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... A WORD BEFORE WE GO. In all parts of Europe the traveller is supplied ■with Guide-books, de- tailing, for his special information and satisfaction, the leading features of all objects of interest...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 20 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... 10 PRE FACE. pose, as receiving a reasonable compensation for it, that we undertook to sketch, in a sprightly and popular way, some of the prominent features of our time-honoured Commonwealth. If...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 21 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... CONTENTS. OFF-HAND SKETCHES. Anthracite Anthracite of, Anthracite ture of, Anthracite, Anthracite, Anthracite, Anthracite, Anthracite, Anthracite, Anthracite, Coal, discovery of, Coal Regions, position Coal Regions, struc- for smelting iron, analysis of, weight of,...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 22 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... 12 CONTENTS PAGE Pottsviile, sketch of, 102 Port Clinton and Tamaqua rail- road, 99 Port Richmond, the coal depot, 37 PhoenLwillc, iron manufactures of, 65 Quakers, the, 07 81 Reading Railroad, sketch...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 23 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... CONTENTS 13 PAGE Forging Iron, processes of, 123 Fox-chasing, 39 Fulton, Robert, sketch of, 57 Furnaces, construction of, 112 Furnaces, theory of the blast, 120 Furnaces, charge measure of, 120 Furnaces, running...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 24 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 25 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... PENNSYLVANIA BY PHILIP FRENEAU. Spread with stupendous hills, far from the main, Fair Pennsylvania holds her golden reign In fertile fields her wheaten harvest grows, Charged with its freights her favorite Delaware...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 26 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... 16 PENNSYLVANIA. Who wandering here, made barren forests bloom, And the new soil a happier robe assume He planned no schemes that virtue disapproves, He robbed no Indian of his native groves,...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 27 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... OFF-HAND SKETCHES PART I kind in 2 tfju alhtj nf tip #rjjtn{lltilL Let us, since life can little else supply, Than just to look around us, and to die, Expatiate free o...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 28 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... IK OFF-HAND SKETCHES GIRARD COLLEGE. Shortly after which we see, on our left, the Fairmount Water-works, and although a notice of it is not strictly within the range of this work, it...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 29 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... FAIR MOUNT WATER-WORKS. 19 FAIRMOUNT WATER-WORKS. is forced up to the reservoir, elevated about one hundred feet above the level of the river, and fifty feet above the highest ground in the...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 30 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... 20 OFP-HANDSKETCHES. ing across the Schuylkill, is also an interesting object, and is prob- ably one of the most complete structures of the kind, as we believe it was one of the...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 31 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 32 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 33 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... CROSSING THE SCHUYLKILL. 23 CUTTING ICE ON THE SCHUYLKILL. less frequent. Our eastern neighbors, always the first in the market with their notions, have now a serious competitor in Philadelphia in this...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 34 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... 24 OFF -HANDS KETCHES. and found it indeed a relic of the past. The ceilings, which have never been plastered, reveal the rough joists, now blackened with smoke and greasy rust, while...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 35 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 36 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 37 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... TOM moore s cottage. 27 better characteristics, it is impossible not to feel that this youthful decay, this crude anticipation of the natural period of corruption, must repress every san- guine hope...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 38 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ... 28 OFF-HAND SKETCHES. The following lines purport to have been written on leaving Philadelphia Alone by the Schuylkill a wanderer roved, And bright were its flowery banks to his eye But far,...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 39 of The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and ...- Contributor: Bowen, Eli - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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- Date: 1853