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This plan of the city of Philadelphia and its environs (showing the improved parts) /

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This plan of the city of Philadelphia and its environs (showing the improved parts) /

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Summary

Relief shown by hachures.
Also shows all buildings, names of wharves and landings along the Delaware riverbank, wooded areas, and tract lines beyond the city borders.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
LC copy halved for folding, mounted on cloth backing, and edged with blue-and-white cloth border.
Wheat & Brun no. 468.
Includes notes, index to points of interest, statement of presentation dated "Philad'a Sep'r 5th 1796", and imprint of city seal containing coat-of-arms.

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Date

1800
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Contributors

Hills, John (Surveyor)
Cooke, John, engraver of Hendon.
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Source

Library of Congress
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Copyright info

Public Domain

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