Philadelphia in 1702 – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Philadelphia in 1702
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Dated to about 1875, this print looks back to Philadelphia as it appeared in 1702, roughly two decades after William Penn's colony was laid out between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. By then the town followed the gridded street plan surveyor Thomas Holme had drafted, and it had grown into a busy Atlantic port of Quaker merchants, artisans and shipwrights. Reconstructions like this one reflect the nineteenth-century taste for imagining colonial cities, a interest that grew as the nation approached its centennial.
| Created / published | c1875. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | F11835 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Wade, F.J. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,113 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109462 |
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