Microscopic view of Philadelphia
Herline & Co.
printer
Weik, John
publisher
still image
Graphic
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860
Bird's eye views -- 1850-1860
Miniature works -- 1850-1860
pau
Philadelphia
PA. Philadelphia
Published by John Weik, 605 Sansom St
c1869
1869
monographic
eng
1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 14 x 21 cm.(5.5 x 8.5 in.)
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 and vessels sail on the waters of both rivers. Foundries with smokestacks and undeveloped land border the built city to the North and South.
Herline & Co. lith. 630 Chestnut St. Phila.
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
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