Street map of Philadelphia showing Center City, Spring Garden, Northern Liberties, Kensington, Dist. of Penn, Moyamensing, and Southwark. Includes street names, railroads, public buildings, and names of wharves along the Delaware River. Also shows parts of West Philadelphia and Passyunk., Relief shown pictorially., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Hazzard, J. L., engraver
Date
[ca. 1853]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *maps - Philadelphia - 1853 [299 M 27]
Plan of the city of Philadelphia east of Broad Street showing the location of fire stations for nine volunteer hose companies founded between 1803 and 1806 including Philadelphia, Good Intent, Resolution, Humane, Neptune, Perserverance, Hope, Columbia, and Southwark. Contains a vignette of the Centre Square Waterworks, and a key providing the names of many small courts and alleys., Gift of Maxwell Whiteman.
Creator
Strickland, William, 1787-1854, delineator
Date
ca. 1809
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia Maps - 1809 [6521.F]
Shows the area bounded by McKeon Street, Thirty-Sixth Street, Somerset Street, and the Delaware River. Includes ward numbers, street names, railroads, bridges, cemeteries, waterworks, and names of wharves. Also shows Smith and Windmill islands and part of Camden, N.J. including Kaighn's Point. Laurel Hill and South Laurel Hill Cemetery and Reading Railroad Company coal wharves depicted outside the neat line. Boundaries of wards marked with watercolor., Relief shown pictorially., Printed in upper right corner: No. 23., Published in George W. Colton's General atlas (New York: J. H. Colton & Co., 1858), plate no. 23., Gift of Seymour Toll.
Creator
Colton, G. Woolworth (George Woolworth), 1827-1901
Date
c1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *maps - Philadelphia - 1855 [P.2005.16.1]