Bird's eye view of Philadelphia. [graphic] / J. Bachmann del. & lith.; P. S. Duval & Son's lith. Philad.
Bachmann, John, artist.
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.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 49.1
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 865 B 124a
Second state republished in 1868 by John Weik held in the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia (POS 49.2).
Copyright statement torn.
Philadelphia: Published by J. [Weik] 195 Chesnut [sic] Street
Weik, John, publisher.
P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
Printer: Weik, John, publisher.
c[1857]
Lithographs -- Tinted -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Bird's eye views -- 1850-1860.
1 print: lithograph, tinted and hand-colored; 68 x 96 cm.(26.5 x 35.75 in.) image.
digitool:64294
Historical Society of Pennsylvania PRINT HSP HSP Bc 865 B 124a
Referenced by Wainwright 28
Referenced by Reps 3588
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.