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Creator Colton, G. Woolworth (George Woolworth), 1827-1901.
Title Philadelphia [cartographic material].
Publisher New York: Published by J. H. Colton & Co., No. 172 William St
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1855
Date c1855
Physical Description 1 map: lithograph, hand-colored; 44 x 35 cm. (17.25 x 13.75 in.)
Description Shows the area bounded by McKeon Street, Thirty-Sixth Street, Somerset Street, and the Delaware River. Includes ward numbers, street names, railroads, bridges, cemeteries, waterworks, and names of wharves. Also shows Smith and Windmill islands and part of Camden, N.J. including Kaighn's Point. Laurel Hill and South Laurel Hill Cemetery and Reading Railroad Company coal wharves depicted outside the neat line. Boundaries of wards marked with watercolor.
Notes Relief shown pictorially.
Printed in upper right corner: No. 23.
Published in George W. Colton's General atlas (New York: J. H. Colton & Co., 1858), plate no. 23.
Gift of Seymour Toll.
Geographic subject Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Maps.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Administrative and political divisions -- Maps.
Genre Maps -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *maps - Philadelphia - 1855 [P.2005.16.1]
Accession number P.2005.16.1

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