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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
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Dm.428
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- American Philosophical Society
- 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.
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