View showing Market Street in the state capital. Businesses include a bath house, shoe store, and picture gallery. A man on horseback and pedestrians traverse the dirt street., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Purviance, W. T. (William T.), photographer
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Purviance - Cities [P.9189.3]
Reproduction of the grid street map showing the old 8th Ward of the city after incorporation into Harrisburg city limits in 1838. Includes the area between the Susquehanna River and Paxton Creek and Paxton Street to North street. Also includes bridges, the Harrisburg and Lancaster Railroad, and Pennsylvania Canal., Includes "Explanation" of key to twenty major landmarks (A-T), including the State Capitol, Court House, and several churches., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[ca. 1938]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.179]
