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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, 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, mills line the Schuykilll
above Market Street, and vessels sail on the waters of both rivers. Foundries with smokestacks and undeveloped land border
the built city to the North and South.
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See "For Business Men," Worcester Daily Spy, September 20, 1866. Article reports "A new illustrated work called the 'Gems
of Art,' is now being published by John H. Bufford & Sons, of Boston, to consist of finely exectured lithographic plates of
landscapes, portraits, battle scenes, and cities to be interspersed with pages of advertisements ... The work is to be published
in January, 1867, and four thousand copies gratitously distributed."
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