CONTENTS
 


 

AN  ALPHABETICAL  INDEX  IS  AT   THE   CLOSE   OF  THE  VOLUME
 

                        Part I

Notable Philadelphians

Allegorical Title

History of Philadelphia

Philadelphians of 1902

Philadelphians of the  Past
 

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                  COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY MOSES KING

This work being copyrighted, none of the illustrations should be copied without special permission
 

                       Part  II

Views of  Philadelphia

Bird's-Eye  View of Philadelphia

Description and Statistics

City and Country Homes, Etc.  .

Index  ......
 

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                                      INTRODUCTION



     Twenty-one hundred and fifty-two Philadelphia portraits and views are brought together in this volume:  Fifteen

hundred and  sixty  classified uniform  portraits of  Philadelphians;  a  half hundred  historic  prints  and  nearly  six

hundred historical  and  photographic  views,  including  one  hundred and   sixty-eight  city  and  country  homes.

It is  hoped they will  interest  the present generation  and  be of permanent  biographical and historical  value.
 

THE PUBLISHER  IS  GRATEFULLY INDEBTED TO
 

Samuel W. Pennypacker

Hampton L.  Carson

Lincoln Godfrey

Samuel R. Shipley

Effingham B.  Morris

Henry Tatnall

Cornelius  N.  Weygandt

Thomas  H.  Montgomery

John  Story  Jenks

Richard M. Jones

Justus  C.  Strawbridge

Benjamin W. Richards

Richard V.  Mattison

John B.  Stetson

William Sellers

Owen Wister
 

Boies  Penrose

J. Levering Jones

N. Parker  Shortridge

Harry  F.  West

John H. Michener

Morton McMichael

F. Wayland Ayer

Charles  M.  Swain

R. Dale Benson

William R. Nicholson

Charles  D. Barney

Andrew Wheeler

Isaac H. Clothier

George  A. Heyl

Howard B.  French

H. La Barre Jayne
 

 James  T.  Mitchell

 Edwin Sydney  Stuart

 John H. Converse

 Edward W. Clark

\ Henry M. Dechert

 Charles S. W.  Packard

 Theodore  Kitchen

 Benjamin Githens

 Tattnall  Paulding

 Howard  S. Graham

 Wm. W. Foulkrod

 George A. Huhn

 George H.  Beardsley

 Craige  Lippincott

 William H. Lambert

 Albert Rosenthal
 

Scharf & Westcott  "History of Philadelphia," "Watson's Annals," Richard H. Stoddard's "A Century After," J. B.  Lippincott Co.'s various

works, Rev. Samuel F. Hotchkin's several histories, John Hill Martin's " Bench and Bar," Geo. W. Engelhardt's " The Bourse  Book," and many others
 

THE   MAKERS   OF  THIS   VOL
 

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UME
 

     History by Talcott Williams

mainly by Joseph F. A. Jackson an

Public  Ledger, and  Annie M.  BuckV

minster.  Historical engravings and

portraits were loaned by the Hon. James

T.  Mitchell, the distinguished  jurist,

Albert  Rosenthal,  the  noted  portrait

painter, and William J. Campbell, the

antiquarian bookseller.   Two thousand

plates engraved  by  Weeks Photo-En¬

graving Co.,  of Philadelphia, and four

hundred by the Gill  Engraving Co.,

of New York.  Eight hundred photo¬

graph portraits by Frederick Gutekunst;
 

              Printed by

Blanchard Press, Isaac H. Blanchard Co.

             New York.
 

two hundred by the Phillips Gallery; a hundred by the Broadbent

Company; scores by Gilbert  & Bacon, the Gilbert  Gallery,

                     Clayton Stone  Harris,  Hansbury Gal¬

                     lery, Mary  Carnell, Wright &  Cook,

                     Overton  & Young, Samuel  R.  Gray,

                     Franz Meynen;  and other  photogra¬

                     phers all over the world are represented.

                     The views were made chiefly by William

                     H. Rau and James B. Rich; and many

                     are  by H. Parker Rolfe, James L. Dil¬

                     lon, R. Newell &  Son, John H. Russ,

                     et al.  Drawings by  Ludwig S.  Ipsen,

                     Max  Rosenthal,  Richard W.  Rum-

                     mell, West  &  Hahn, and others.
 

              Bound by

The Oldach Company, The OldachBinderv

            Philadelphia