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]
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]
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]
Map showing the Cresson property and including Erie, Venango, Tioga, Ontario, F, G, H, and I Streets. Shows the border lines of the property in red ink. Several rectangles, probably symbolizing buildings, are depicted between G and H Streets and Venango Street. Beneath the map is an American flag on a pole., Title and date from item., Text written on recto: Established Curl heights at corners in red ink. Grade per 100 feet in blue. Surface heights in black., Stamped on the verso: Alfred Fitler, Conveyancer, Phila., Jan. 13, 1869., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2020.
Creator
Shallcross, Isaac, surveyor
Date
1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.20]
