Picture of Philadelphia, giving an account of its origin : increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. With a compendious view of its societies, literary, benevolent, patriotic and religious. Embracing the public buildings, the house of refuge, prison, new penitentiary, widows' and orphans' asylum, Fair Mount water works, &c. ...

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PICTURE o-

GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF ITS ORIGIN, INCREASE ! AND IMPROVEMENTS

ilN ARTS, SCIENCES, MANUFACTURES COMMERCE AND REVENUE.

Contents

j Topographical Description, - -

Various Plans of the City,

Plan of the Wards,

II Contexis

Abolition Society,

Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Prisons, Magdalen Society, ------

PRIVATE AND ENDOWED INSTITUTIONS.

1. Friend’s Alms House, - - -

2. Christ Church Hospital, . - - -

ASSOCIATIONS FOR GENERAL CHARITY.

1. Female Society for the Employment of the Poor,

2. Female Hospitable Society, - - - -

3. Female Association, - -

FREE SCHOOLS.

1 . Sunday School Society, - - - -

2. Philadelphia Society for the establishment and

support of Charity Schools, - - -

3. Aim well School Society, - - - -

4. Philadelphia Union Society, - - - -

5. St. Joseph’s Society, - - - - .

6. Adelphi School,

Public Provision for Free Education, --- Schools for the Education of Blacks, - - -

PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES.

1. Domestic Society, - - - - -

2. Agricultural Society, - - - - -

3. Cattle Society, -

MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES.

1. Of Carpenters,

2. Ship Master’s Society, - - - -

3. Pilot’s Society, ------

4. Mariner’s Society,

5. Stone-cutter’s Society, - - - .

6. Bricklayer’s Society,

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y. Halr-dresser’s Society, •» - - - 272

8. Typographical Society, - - - .

9. Master Taylor’s Society, - - , , 274

10. Provident Society of House Carpenters, - ib,

11. Master Mechanic’s Society, - - . 275

Societies of various other Mechanics, - - . 276

OTHER MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES.

1. Provident, - - - ,

2. Philanthropic, ...

3. Columbian Benevolent,

Several others, - - - -

Summary of their Constitutions, - Society of Masons, - « .

ASSOCIATIONS FOR RELIEF OF FOREIGNERS.

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1 . St. Andrews,

2. St. George, - - -

3. Welsh,

4. Hibernian, - - -

5. German Incorporated Society,

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MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES OF FOREIGNERS AND THEIR DESCENDENTS.

1. United German Benefit Society, b German American Mutual Assistant Society, I. Caledonian Society, - - - .

•. Scots Thistle Society, - - - .

. St. Patrick’s Benevolent Society,

. Society de Bienfaisance, - - .

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iible Society,

revision for the Poor, ^ .

rivate Provision for the Poor, - - .

Fund for supplying the Poor with Fuel, - Fund to relieve the Poor placed in the City Hospital, during the prevalence of the Yellow Fever, ib.

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LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.

1. Friend’s School, - - -

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3. American Philosophical Society,

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4. Medical Society, - - -

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5. College of Physicians,

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6. Medical Lyceum, - - -

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7. Linnean Society, - - -

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LIBRARIES.

1 . Philadelphia Library,

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2. Loganian, do. - - -

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Peale’s Museum, - - .

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,

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Society of Artists, - - -

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PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

Old Coun House, - - -

State House, - - . .

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Old College, - - - .

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Bank of the United States,

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Pennsylvania,

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Philadelphia,

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County Court House and City Hall,

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Independent Tabernacle,

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Baptist Church, - - .

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Theatre, -----

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Circus, -----

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City Hospital, - - - -

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GONTENrS.

l.iterary Characters, 336

Franklin’s Legacy, 338

John Keble’s Legacies, - . - - - 342

Tours in the Vicinity of Philadelphia, - - 344

Appendix

Omission respecting the proposer of Hose Companies. Notice of St. Michael’s Church.

Notice of Aitken’s Bible, of 1782.

Correction respecting the Streets.

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