PLACES IN TIME:

Historical Documentation of Place in Greater Philadelphia

A Back Door:
Just the resources, no gab.
Hey! Give me back some gab.

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Resources in full:

IMAGE SETS:
Commercial Panoramas

General: [index maps] [projectors] [inventory]

Rae's panoramas, 1851:

Baxter's panoramas, 1857-80: inventory

Baxter's manuscript panorama sheets at HSP: inventory.

 

Engraved and Lithographed Views

Birch's Views: map and list

J. C. Wild's Views: map and list

C. G. Childs's Views: map and list.

Photographs

Frederick De B. Richards at LCP: inventory

Real Estate Atlases

General: map and list

Main Line atlas, 1896: hot-linked index map

Hexamer & Locher, 1857-60: hot-linked index map

DOCUMENTS IN FULL:

The 500 Block of Market Street, S. Holt/INHP

Research Tools:

 

LISTS OF PAPERS, REPORTS, SURVEYS, and (yes) LISTS

Student papers:

• Ph.D. dissertations
• Master's theses
• BMC senior theses
• U. Penn. HP 600 papers

 

Other Reports:

• Historic Structure Reports

Interconnected finding aids:

• Scrapbooks about Place
• 19th-Century Lithographs: Wainwright's inventory
  • alphabetically by title
  • ordered chronologically.
• Aerial Photograph Indexes

Surveys of area places of historic interest:

• National Historic Landmarks
• National Register properties and districts
• HABS/HAER-surveyed properties
• endangered buildings
• modern landmark buildings

SEARCHING TOOLS

• by location: hierarchical lists

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CONNECTIONS to other sites:

REPOSITORIES, CONTACTS, and LINKS

NON-VIRTUAL VISITS
RELATED LINKS:

 

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