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The 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, & religious. Its police--the public buildings--the prison and penetentiary [!] system--institutions, monied and civil--museum

James Mease · 1811 · Scanned text

103,980 words · about 7 h 17 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1811, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/43048317); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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About this book

Author
James Mease
Language
English
Published
1811
Length
103,980 words · about 7 h 17 min
Sections
4 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain

 

Contents (4)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Contents about 6 min
  3. Preface about 6 h 10 min
  4. Preface to Catalogue of Library about 1 h

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Front matter

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Contents

Introductory History, _ _ - - - i

Topographical Description, - - - - 15

Various Plans of the City, - - - - - 17 General Description - - - - - -20

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