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Bird's eye view after the John Bachmann print published by J. Weik in 1857. Predominately shows the built city from the Schuylkill
to the Delaware rivers and Port Richmond to South Philadelphia. Market Street runs down the center of the view. Shows the
residential, commercial, industrial, religious, educational, and cultural buildings lining the streets and outer lying areas
of Center City. Also shows parts of West Philadelphia, Windmill Island, and Camden, NJ. and public utilities, bridges, railroad
depots, and reservoirs. Includes from west to east, grounds for the Agricultural Society Fair of 1856, the Woodlands, Blockley
Almshouse, the Upper Ferry Bridge, Market Street Bridge, the two Gas Works, Fairmount Water Works, Girard College, Eastern
State Penitentiary, the Naval Asylum, Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, St. Mark's Church, Christ Church, Independence Hall,
Pennsylvania Hospital, St. Peter's Church, and Spark's Shot Tower. Also shows the five major squares (as well as Independence
Square) and adjacent landmarks, including the P.R.R. Freight Depot, U.S. Mint, First Independent Church, Pennsylvania Asylum
for the Blind, and Will's Eye Hospital. Masts of docked ships line the piers along the Delaware and vessels sail on the waters
of both rivers. Pedestrian and street traffic is also visible on the city road ways. Foundries with smokestacks and undeveloped
land border the built city to the North and South.
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