Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge New series - volume 43, part 1, 1953 : historic Philadelphia from the founding until the early nineteenth century : papers dealing with its people and buildings with an illustrative map the American Philosophical Society, Independence Square, Philadelphia 6 March 1953

Format:

• Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

331 p. : ill., fascims., plans, ports. ; 30 cm.

Contents:

• The Independence hall group / Edward M. Riley
• Philosophical hall / William E. Lingelbach
• The oldest bank building in the U.S. / James O. Wettereau
• The second bank of the U.S. / Bray Hammond
• The Philadelphia exchange / Agnes Addison Gilchrist ; architect: W. Strickland
• Carpenters' Hall / Charles E. Peterson
• Library hall / Charles E. Peterson
• Franklin's home / Edward M. Riley
• 190 High Street / Harold Donaldson Eberlein
• The charity school ... / William L. Turner
• Christ church, St. Peter's and St. Paul's / Robert W. Shoemaker
• St. Joseph's and St. Mary's churches / Dennis C. Kurjack
• Quaker landmarks in early Philadelphia / Edwin B. Bronner
• The Presbyterian churches of old Philadelphia / Rev. Alexander Mackie
• St. George's church / Rev. Bishop Fred P. Corson
• The Pennsylvania hospital / Edward B. Krumbhaar
• Philadelphia's 18th century fire insurance companies / Nicholas B. Wainwright
• Peale's museum / Charles Coleman Sellers
• The athenaeum / Arthur M. Kennedy
• The Academy of Natural Sciences / Maurice E. Phillips
• The Franklin Institute / Henry Butler Allen
• Houses and early life in Philadelphia / Grant Miles Simon
• Two centuries of Philadelphia architecture / Robert C. Smith.
• Market houses in High Street / Agnes Addison Gilchrist
• The theatre and drama in old Philadelphia / Arthur Hobson Quinn
• The taverns of colonial Philadelphia / Robert Earle Graham
• Philadelphia prisons of the eighteenth century / Thorsten Sellin
• Map of old Philadelphia, showing historic buildings and sites / Grant Miles Simon, comp.
• Historic Philadelphia.

Contains:

Philadelphia's Eighteenth Century Fire Insurance Companies.