| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Extracts from the journal of Miss Sarah Eve: written while living near the city of Philadelphia in 1772-73
| | | | Creator: | Eve, Sarah, 1749 or 50-1774 | | | | Publication: | Collins, Printer, Philadelphia [Pa.],1881. | | | | Notes: | "Reprinted from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography." Includes bibliographical references. | | | | Call #: | F11ZJ E93e | | | | Extent: | [34] p. ; 26 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Philadelphia illustrated: a sketch of the city, Fairmount Park, public buildings and industrial establishments
| | | | Creator: | Westcott, Thompson. | | | | Publication: | Porter & Coates, Philadelphia [Pa.],1876 | | | | Notes: | Attributed to Thompson Westcott as an abridgement of his Official guide book to Philadelphia. | | | | Call #: | F11ZJ W524 | | | | Extent: | 96 : ill. ; 26 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Philadelphia: the place and the people
| | | | Creator: | Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950 | | | | | Peixotto, Ernest, b. 1869 | | | | Publication: | The Macmillan Company, Macmillan & Co., Ltd, New York, London,1898. | | | | Call #: | F11Z R425 | | | | Extent: | xxi, 392 p. front. (port.) illus., plates. 20 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | Strangers directory of Philadelphia: the home of Wilbur's cocoa and chocolate
| | | | Creator: | H.O. Wilbur & Sons, Inc | | | | Publication: | H.O. Wilbur & Sons, Inc, Philadelphia,[191-?] | | | | Notes: | "This directory compiled and issued with the compliments of H.O. Wilbur and Sons, Inc. Folded map laid in. | | | | Call #: | P 218 | | | | Extent: | 24 p. : ill., map ; 17 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | A new picture of Philadelphia, or, The stranger's guide to the city and adjoining districts: in which are described the public buildings; literary, scientific, commercial and benevolent institutions; places of amusement; places of worship; principal cemeteries, and every other object worthy of attention : with a plan of the city and its environs
| | | | Creator: | Tanner, Henry Schenck, 1786-1858 | | | | Publication: | T.R. Tanner, New York,1844, c1840. | | | | Notes: | Title on cover differs from another ed. of the same year. Includes index. | | | | Call #: | F11ZJA T166 1844 | | | | Extent: | 156 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : fold. map ; 16 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Guidebooks
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 10 | Title: | Early history of the Falls of Schuylkill, Manayunk, Schuylkill and Lehigh navigation companies, Fairmount waterworks, etc
| | | | Creator: | Hagner, Charles Valerius, 1796-1878 | | | | Publication: | Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, Philadelphia,1869. | | | | Notes: | Includes bibliographies. | | | | Call #: | F11ZJ H145 | | | | Extent: | viii, [9]-102 p. front., port. 21 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Falls of Schuylkill (Pa.) -- History | Manayunk (Pa.) -- History | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 13 | Title: | The Independence square neighborhood: historical notes on Independence and Washington squares, lower Chestnut street, and the insurance district along Walnut street, in Philadelphia, together with some account of the buildings, events, and personages of State house row
| | | | Creator: | Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company | | | | | Frey, Carroll, 1894- | | | | Publication: | The Penn mutual life insurance company, Philadelphia,1926. | | | | Notes: | "This story of the Independence square neighborhood was written by Carroll Frey." | | | | Call #: | B 7330 | | | | Extent: | 2 p. l., 3-155 p. front., illus. (incl. maps, facsims.) 23 1/2 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Streets -- Independence Square | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Historic houses, etc | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 14 | Title: | A letter from William Penn, proprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the committee of the Free Society of Traders of that province, residing in London: containing a general description of the said province ... of the natives or aborigines ... of the first planters, the Dutch, & c ... to which is added, an account of the city of Philadelphia newly laid out
| | | | Creator: | Penn, William, 1644-1718 | | | | Publication: | Re-printed by J. Coleman, Tottenham,1881] | | | | Notes: | Title on wrapper: Coleman's re-print of William Penn's original proposal and plan for the founding & building of Philadelphia ... Includes (p. 10-14) the catalogue of lot-holders in Philadelphia, wanting in many copies of the original. An appendix (p. [15]-24) added to the Letter by the publisher, Mr. Coleman, contains an address "To the representatives of the free-men of ... Pennsylvania ... 1692", a list of landholders of the period 1720-30, a list of proprietary tracts or manors in the province (undated), a short description of Philadelphia and a list of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, 1776. | | | | Call #: | Penn family | | | | Extent: | 24 p. : fold. plan. ; 29 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel
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