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Bird's eye view predominately showing 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.
Upper corners of image rounded.
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