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Contents or Abstract: '; “...George's church : the cradle of American Methodism -- The Pennsylvania hospital -- Philadelphia's eighteenth-century fire insurance companies -- Peale's Museum -- The Athenaeum : some account of its history from 1814 to 1850 -- The academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia -- The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania -- Houses and early life in Philadelphia -- Two centuries of Philadelphia architecture : 1700-1900 -- Market houses in High Street -- The theatre and drama in old Philadelphia -- The taverns of colonial Philadelphia -- Philadelphia prisons of the eighteenth century -- Map of old Philadelphia, showing historic buildings and sites.....”

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