Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge historic Philadelphia from the founding until the early nineteenth century : papers dealing with its people and buildings with an illustrative map New series - volume 43, part 1, 1953 :

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Corporate Author: American Philosophical Society
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Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • The Independence hall group / Edward M. Riley
  • Philosophical hall / William E. Lingelbach
  • The oldest bank building in the U.S. / James O. Wettereau
  • The second bank of the U.S. / Bray Hammond
  • The Philadelphia exchange / Agnes Addison Gilchrist ; architect: W. Strickland
  • Carpenters' Hall / Charles E. Peterson
  • Library hall / Charles E. Peterson
  • Franklin's home / Edward M. Riley
  • 190 High Street / Harold Donaldson Eberlein
  • The charity school ... / William L. Turner
  • Christ church, St. Peter's and St. Paul's / Robert W. Shoemaker
  • St. Joseph's and St. Mary's churches / Dennis C. Kurjack
  • Quaker landmarks in early Philadelphia / Edwin B. Bronner
  • The Presbyterian churches of old Philadelphia / Rev. Alexander Mackie
  • St. George's church / Rev. Bishop Fred P. Corson
  • The Pennsylvania hospital / Edward B. Krumbhaar
  • Philadelphia's 18th century fire insurance companies / Nicholas B. Wainwright
  • Peale's museum / Charles Coleman Sellers
  • The athenaeum / Arthur M. Kennedy
  • The Academy of Natural Sciences / Maurice E. Phillips
  • The Franklin Institute / Henry Butler Allen
  • Houses and early life in Philadelphia / Grant Miles Simon
  • Two centuries of Philadelphia architecture / Robert C. Smith.
  • Market houses in High Street / Agnes Addison Gilchrist
  • The theatre and 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 old Philadelphia, showing historic buildings and sites / Grant Miles Simon, comp.
  • Historic Philadelphia.