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Asselineau, Léon-Auguste,
1808-1889,
artist.
Philadelphie.
[graphic] /
Assselineau, lith.; Imp. Lemercier.
Paris:
Wild, edit. 15 rue de la Banque pres la Bourse,
[ca. 1857]
1 print:
lithograph, hand-colored;
58 x 80 cm.(22.75 x 31.25 in.)
Printed upper right corner: 90.
See Wainwright
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See Reps
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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.
Philadelphia on Stone
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 865 A 844
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Pictorial works.
West Philadelphia (Pa.)
Pictorial works.
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Pictorial works.
Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Pictorial works.
Windmill Island (Pa.)
Pictorial works.
Lithographs
Hand-colored
1850-1860.
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Bird's eye views
1850-1860.
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Lemercier, Bernard, et C.,
printer.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
PRINT
HSP
HSP Bc 865 A 844
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