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Yellow Fever, Philadelphia, 1793

Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, 1793

Southeast Corner of Third and Market Streets, Philadelphia

Southeast Corner of Third and Market, Philadelphia

Map showing the progression of the Battle of Germantown

Battle of Germantown map, 1777

1779 Philadelphia map

1779 Revolutionary War-era map of Philadelphia and environs

Henry Disston's Keystone Saw Works was located along the Delaware riverfront in Tacony. The black-and-white lithograph shows the factory's many smokestacks emitting smoke into the atmosphere.

Keystone Saw Works

New Lutheran Church, Fourth Street, 1799-1800

New Lutheran Church in Fourth Street, Philadelphia