Philadelphie
Asselineau, Léon-Auguste
1808-1889
artist
Lemercier, Bernard, et C.
printer
still image
Graphic
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860
Bird's eye views -- 1850-1860
fr
Paris
Wild, edit. 15 rue de la Banque pres la Bourse
[ca. 1857]
1857
monographic
fre
1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 58 x 80 cm.(22.75 x 31.25 in.)
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.
Assselineau, lith.; Imp. Lemercier.
Printed upper right corner: 90.
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
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP
HSP Bc 865 A 844
See Wainwright
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