Leary Stuart and Company

Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdote, and incidents of the city and inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the Inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders, intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes of manners and customs, and the city and country in their local changes and improvements Vol I, II, III

This 163 year old book, originally bound in brown embossed paper over a hard cardboard is an excellent resource for information on mid-nineteenth century Philadelphia. It contains black and white reproductions of famous painting of historical events in the founding of the city. It has an extensive section of appendices on miscellaneous topics that could be of interest to reader of the city's history or a local historian.
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