Image:Philadelphia1752.jpg

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Date
1752
Place
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Description

A MAP OF PHILADELPHIA AND PARTS ADJACENT WITH A PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE STATE HOUSE, by N. Scull and G. Heap.

This map contains the first known image of Independence Hall, then called the Pennsylvania State House, shown in this close up. The early maps of Philadelphia are a subject all their own and usually considered separate from maps of Pennsylvania, see for example Wheat & Brun, where this map is No. 454. Most Pennsylvanians also consider Philadelphia a separate entity, rather the way Marylanders look upon the District of Columbia, and New Yorkers look upon New York City.

This image is from a copy in the Library of Congress, Wheat & Brun #454-55. Reduced versions appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1753 and 1777, as listed by Sellers & van Ee #1306-7; and in Faden's North American Atlas, Sellers & van Ee #1319-21. M. P. Snyder, Figures 11-16, illustrates versions of this map as well as Heap's views of Philadelphia.

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Source

Maps of Pennsylvania: 1750 to 1754 Pennsylvania Maps, number 1752.1.

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