Plate from a Philadelphia ward atlas showing a section of the seventh ward. Map includes area from Pine to South Streets and Eighteenth through Fifteenth Streets. Buildings are labeled with property owner, business, organization, and school names, including the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity, Thomas Durham Public School, Frederick Douglas Memorial Hospital & Training School, and Wesley A.M.E. Church., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Scale statement on map reads, “50 feet to one inch.”, Printed on recto: Plate 19., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.49]
Plate from a Philadelphia ward atlas showing a section of the seventh ward. Map includes area from Pine to South Streets and Nineteenth through Sixteenth Streets. Buildings are labeled with property owner, business, organization, and school names, including Philadelphia Polyclinic & College, St. Marks Church, and the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Scale statement on map reads, “50 feet to one inch.”, Printed on recto: Plate 18., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.48]
Map showing multiple Philadelphia properties belonging to John Earl to be sold at auction on April 14, 1857. Shows seven properties located between Crown Street and Frankford Road and two properties located between Union and Marlborough Streets. The acreage and ground rents are noted on each property., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on recto: To be sold at public sale, in pursuance of an order of the Orphan’s Court, on Tuesday, 14th April, 1857, at 7 ½ o’clock in the evening at the Philada Exhange. M. Thomas & Sons, auctioneers. NB. Other property, same estate, to be sold same evening, including vacant lots on Frankford Turnpike and Shackamaxon St. Also two four story brick stores nos., 172 & 174, North 3rd Street; Lot & buildings in Marshall Street, 9 well secured irredeemable ground rents &c., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1857]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.44]
Manuscript property map with printed illustration showing landowner’s names, land patents, and acreage of properties in Lykens, Pa. Properties listed include: Frederick Lubold, Frederick Harner, Jr., George Hoffman, John Gerger, George Rissinger, George Mayer, and Theodor Gratz. Also contains an illustration engraved by George Gilbert in the top center and depicting a crest with a ship, a plow, and sheaves of wheat. Above the crest is an eagle with outstretched wings and that is flanked by two horses on each side. Illustration also includes a banner reading “Virtue, Liberty, & Independence” that spans the bottom edge of the image., Title and date from item., Manuscript written on recto: Resurveyed and Divided formerly for Frederick Lubold, on the Twentythird Day of November, Anno Domini, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fortythree. The above Described tract of Land, Situate in Lykens Township, in the County of Dauphin, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Containing Fortyeight Acres and Fiftysix Perches of Land, Strictmeasures. Which being part of a larger tract of Land. John Paul, Jun’r., Gift of David Doret.
Creator
Paul, John, Jr., surveyor
Date
[1843]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Manuscripts [P.2019.62.6]
