The exhibit includes nine detailed maps of the area. To display
these and observe change in specific sites over time, choose from
the list of maps in each column, scrolling amid each map.
MAPS:
I5. Map of area, 1794.
Detail from Plan of the City and Suburbs of Philadelphia,
engraving after surveys by A.P. Folie (Philadelphia, 1794).
Library Company of Philadelphia.
A5. Map of area, 1830.
Detail from Plan of the city of Philadelphia and adjoining
districts, engraving after surveys by W. Allen (Philadelphia:
H. S. Tanner, 1830).
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
A key to this map was published as a pamphlet by H. S. Tanner,
titled Index to the New Plan of Philadelphia and Adjoining
Districts (Philadelphia, 1830). Numbered items on this part
of the map were identified as:
2. Academy of Natural Sciences
350. 10th Presbyterian Church
284. Sansom Street Baptist Church Burial Ground
117. 12th Street Meeting House
152. Horse Market
340. State Armory
199. Medical Society's Hall
257. Prosperous Alley
263. Locust Street Public School
359. Tin Alley
282. Salem Methodist Episcopal Church
106. 4th Presbyterian Church Burial Ground
10. Associate Presbyterian Church Burial Ground
330. St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Burial Ground
A15. Map of area, 1849.
Detail from Map of the City of Philadelphia, Together with
All the Surrounding Districts, colored lithograph, after surveys
by J.C. Sidney (Philadelphia: Smith & Wistar, 1849).
Library Company of Philadelphia.
A key to the map was printed along its left edge. Numbered items
on this part of the map were identified as:
57. Presbyterian Church
49. Catholic Church
24. First Independent Church
64. Presbyterian Church
28. St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church
50. Baptist Church
[6]9. Methodist Episcopal Church
26. Presbyterian Church
27. Protestant Episcopal Church
A16. Map of area, 1862.
Photocomposite from Samuel E. Smedley, Smedley's Atlas of the
City of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott &
Co., 1862), section 4.
Library Company of Philadelphia.
B6. Map of area, 1874.
Photocomposite from G. H. Jones & Co, Atlas of Philadelphia
in Fifteen Volumes, Vol. 1 (Philadelphia, 1874), plate 6,
and Volume 2 (Philadelphia, 1875), plate 6.
Library Company of Philadelphia.
C14. Map of area, 1885.
Photocomposite from George W. and Walter S. Bromley, Atlas
of the City of Philadelphia, Volume 1, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th
& 10th Wards (Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley & Co., 1885),
plates I, J, K, N, O, P.
Library Company of Philadelphia.
D20. Map of area, 1908.
Photocomposite from George W. and Walter S. Bromley, Atlas
of the City of Philadelphia: Central Business Property 5th...,
6th..., 7th..., 8th...9th..., 10th & 15th Wards (Philadelphia:
G.W. Bromley & Co., 1908), plates 9, 10, and 11.
Library Company of Philadelphia.
E3. Map of area, 1930.
Photocomposite from Elvino V. Smith. Atlas of the 5th to 10th
Wards of the City of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1927 [rev.
1930]), plates 9-11, 14-16.
Library Company of Philadelphia.
E23. Map of area, 1984.
Detail from Philadelphia, axonometric view of Center City
by David A. Fox (Philadelphia, 1984).
Library Company of Philadelphia.
