Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The city government of Philadelphia
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of a municipal loan certificate issued by the City of Philadelphia and made out in manuscript to Henry A. Snyder on September 5, 1878, with signatures of the president, cashier, and transfer officer of the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank and the Philadelphia City Controller, future Pennsylvania Governor Robert E. Pattison; eight surrounding vignettes including a view of Independence Hall, and the adjacent Old City Hall building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at top center; head-and-shoulder portraits of George Washington, at upper left, Benjamin Franklin, at lower left, Henry Clay, at upper right, and William Penn, at lower right; and vignettes of a blacksmith standing before an anvil and hammer, at center left, and a young barefoot woman holding sheaves of grain above her head with a scythe behind her.
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Visual Materials
Image of an elevated cityscape view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, showing a busy port on the Delaware River, ships in the water, and the city in the background, in a shield motif; vignettes of the seal of Pennsylvania, a train, and goods such as wheat and barrels.
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Rare Books
Originally published by Mitchell in 1879, and later reissued by Smith. Alt. title from cover. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. MS notations.
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