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Title: Back of State House, Philadelphia.
Identifier(s): graphics:5624; APSimg1811; Negative Number: 1072.018; Graphics Number: F16.1.13
Description: View of State House and grounds, with people standing in groups.; Rosengarten: 129
Creator: Birch, Thomas, 1779-1851
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Philadelphia (Pa.)--Views; Birch, Thomas, 1779-1851; Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1799

Title: Goal, in Walnut Street, Philadelphia
Identifier(s): graphics:4739; local: APSimg1801; local: 1072.007
Description: Rosengarten #95
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834et al
Subject: Philadelphia (Pa.)--Views; African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.); Allen, Richard, 1760-1831; Prisons--Philadelphia; Walnut Street Jail (Philadelphia, Pa.); Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: n.d.

Title: Souvenir of the Coldest Winter on Record. Scene on the Delaware River at Philada. during the severe winter of 1856; Accession no. 1773
Identifier(s): graphics:11364; F16-1-18
Description: Rosengarten no. 72
Subject: Philadelphia (Pa.)--Views; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Climate.; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century.; Delaware River (N.Y.-DEL. And N.J.); Philadelphia (Pa.)--Pictorial works; Ice skating
Date: 1856

Title: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, when he founded the Province of Pennsylvania in North America 1681.
Identifier(s): graphics:5631; APSimg4277; Graphics Number: M42-21-25
Description: Color view of Penn, standing with Native Americans.
Creator: West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Philadelphia (Pa.)--Views; Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1682); Indians of North America
Date: n. d.

Title: View from scientific balloon, "over eroded bad lands."
Identifier(s): graphics:3235; APSimg7796; Graphics Number: F8-43-20
Description: View from balloon in flight.
Source: William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss.B.Sw1); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sw1-ead.xml
Subject: Math & Physics ; Panoramic views; Balloons (Aircraft)
Date: n. d.

Title: The Philadelphia Parkway as planned for the Fairmount Park Association.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3539; APSdigobj3539
Description: See: Philadelphia Fairmount Park Art Association, Report of the Commission. . . . Philadelphia: 1908.
Creator: Trumbauer, Horace, 1869-1938 Zantzinger, C.C. Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
Date: 1908

Title: Map of the city of Philadelphia, together with all the surrounding districts, including Camden, N. J., from official records, plans of the district surveyor & original surveys by J. C. Sydney. 1849.
Identifier(s): graphics:5861; APSdigobj3538
Description: Presented 12 July 1849.
Creator: Sydney, J.C.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
Date: 1849

Title: Plan for Independence National Park
Identifier(s): graphics:10033
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: circa 1942-1944

Title: Plan of the city of Philadelphia, compiled from actual surveys by F. Drayton, 1824.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3561; APSdigobj3561
Creator: Drayton, F.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
Date: 1824

Title: Portraiture of the city of Philadelphia in the province of Pennsylvania in America.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3559; APSdigobj3559
Description: Inset: Peninsula between Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. Presented by General Parker from the library of Zaccheus Collins, 1831.
Creator: Holme, Thomas, 1624-1695
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
Date: [1683]

Title: Map of Philadelphia and parts adjacent.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3560; APSdigobj3560
Description: See: Gentleman's Magazine, 1777, vol. 47, opp. p. 573, for American edition of map.Wheat: 455
Creator: Scull, Nicholas, 1686?-1761? Heap, George, fl. 1715-1760
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
Date: [1777]

Title: Map of Philadelphia County, constructed by virtue of an act of the legislature of Pennsylvania.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3536; APSdigobj3536
Creator: Melish, John, 1771-1822
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
Date: [1819 April 14]

Title: . . . .Map of the city and liberties of Philadelphia, with the catalogue of purchasers, is humbly dedicated by their most obedient humble servant, John Reed.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3532; APSdigobj3532
Description: Inset: Philadelphia; vignettes of the State House, Pennsylvania Hospital, and the house of employment and the alms house.See: John Reed, An explanation of the city and liberties of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: 1774.
Creator: Reed, John, 1738-1776
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
Date: [1774]

Title: Philadelphie, par Eas[t]burn.
Identifier(s): graphics:5826; APSdigobj3533
Creator: Eastburn, B.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps; https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Printed.Maps-ead.xml
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
Date: [ca. 1777]

Title: Map of Washington Square, Walnut Street, Philadelphia.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3537; APSdigobj3537
Description: The botanical and English names of the trees on this map were collected with great care, and their position given by Patrick Kereven, chief gardener of Wash[i]ng[ton] & Indepen[den]ce Squares. Presented by Thomas Sinclair, 26 May 1843.
Creator: Colahan, John B. Schmitz, M.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Botanical illustrations; Trees; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
Date: [1843]

Title: Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania
Identifier(s): graphics:8018
Description: Engraving, color; image 14 x 21 cm
Subject: Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; Eastern State Penitentiary; Prisons; Penitentiary
Date: 1829-12-01

Title: Aerial View of Independence Hall
Identifier(s): graphics:9451
Description: Also pictured: Philosophical Hall, Library Hall, and the Second Bank of the United States.
Subject: Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.); American Philosophical Society.
Date: undated