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A sylvan city: or, Quaint corners in Philadelphia.
LIBRA F158.5 .S93
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Our continent library ; v. 4.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Description and travel.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--History.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings -- 1883.
- Silver bindings.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 9-508 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (including plates, portraits, coats of arms) ; 19 cm.
- Other Title:
- Sylvan city
- Quaint corners in Philadelphia
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Our continent publishing co. New York : Fords, Howard and Hulbert, 1883.
- Contents:
- A Quaker soldier / Helen Campbell.
- The city of a dream / H. Campbell.
- "Caspipina": The story of a mother church / Louise Stockton.
- Old Saint Joseph's / Elizabeth Robins.
- The old Philadelphia library / L. Stockton.
- Quaker and Tory / H. Campbell.
- The Philadelphia post-office / Edwin A. Barber.
- Shop windows / E. Robins.
- Public schools / Eliza S. Turner.
- A master builder / H. Campbell.
- Early abolitionists / H. Campbell.
- Medical education / H. Campbell.
- The bettering-house and other charities / L. Stockton.
- The right to bear arms / Frank W. Leach.
- Stephen Girard; mariner and merchant / L. Stockton.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copies: Bound in green cloth, design in black ink and silver foil.
- Athenaeum copy: Ex libris: NY Mercantile Library (circulating); Bequest of Stephen M. Lynch (copy 2).
- OCLC:
- 2494403
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