Entrée principale:

American Philosophical Society.

Titre et auteur:

Historic Philadelphia : from the founding until the early nineteenth century ; papers dealing with its people and buildings.

Publication:

Philadelphia : [publisher not identified], 1953.

Description:

331 pages : illustrations, folded color map, portraits ; 30 cm.

Série(s):

Its Transactions, new ser. ; v. 43, pt. 1

Notes:
"Part of old Philadelphia, a map showing historic buildings & sites from the founding until the early nineteenth century, compiled by Grant Miles Simon," fold., in pocket.
Includes bibliographical references.
The Independence Hall group / Edward M. Riley -- Philosophical Hall : the home of the American Philosophical Society / William E. Lingelbach -- The oldest bank building in the United States / James O. Wettereau -- The Second Bank of the United States / Bray Hammond -- The Philadelphia exchange : William Strickland, architect / Agnes Addison Gilchrist -- Carpenter{u2019}s Hall / Charles E. Peterson -- Library Hall : home of the Library Company of Philadelphia 1790-1880 / Charles E. Peterson -- Franklin{u2019}s home / Edward M. Riley -- 190 High Street (Market Street below Sixth) : the home of Washington and Adams 1790-1800 / Harold Donaldson Eberlein -- The Charity School, the Academy, and the College, Fourth and Arch Streets / William L. Turner -- Christ Church, St. Peter{u2019}s and St. Paul{u2019}s / Robert W. Shoemaker -- St. Joseph{u2019}s and St. Mary{u2019}s churches / Dennis C. Kurjack -- Quaker landmarks in early Philadelphia / Edwin B. Bronner -- The Presbyterian churches of Old Philadelphia / Rev. Alexander Mackie -- St. George{u2019}s Church : the cradle of American Methodism / Rev. Bishop Fred Pierce Corson -- The Pennsylvania Hospital / Edward B. Krumbhaar -- Philadelphia{u2019}s eighteenth-century fire insurance companies / Nicholas B. Wainwright -- Peale{u2019}s Museum / Charles Coleman Sellers -- The Athenaeum : some account of its history from 1814 to 1850 / Arthur M. Kennedy -- The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia / Maurice E. Phillips -- The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania / Henry Butler Allen -- Houses and early life in Philadelphia / Grant Miles Simon -- Two centuries of Philadelphia architecture : 1700-1900 / Robert C. Smith -- Market houses in High Street / Agnes Addison Gilchrist -- The theatre and the drama in Old Philadelphia / Arthur Hobson Quinn -- The taverns of Colonial Philadelphia / Robert Earle Graham -- Philadelphia prisons of the eighteenth century / Thorsten Sellin -- Map of part of Old Philadelphia, showing historic buildings and sites / Grant Miles Simon.

Résumé:

This book consists of twenty-seven articles dealing with the people and buildings of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Philadelphia.

Sujet:

Historic buildings Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Historic buildings
Manners and customs
Philadelphia (Pa.) Social life and customs.
Philadelphia (Pa.) Maps.
Philadelphie (Penns.) Mœurs et coutumes.
Pennsylvania Philadelphia

Classification/genre:

pictorial maps.
Pictorial maps
Maps
Cartes illustrées.

Vedettes secondaires:

Simon, Grant Miles, 1887-1967. Part of old Philadelphia, a map.
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; new ser., v. 43, pt. 1.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 72312
Cote: 9368; ID:86-B11908
Statut: Disponible