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Title: Treat's illustrated New York, Philadelphia and surroundings
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Treat, E. B. (Erastus Buck), 1838-1928 Durst, Seymour B., 1913- former owner. NNC
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Publisher: New York, E.B. Treat
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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s, and martyrdom have made them famous forall time, or who were chosen by divine power as the in-struments for the accomplishment of his great purposes,are described in this volume, every page of which glowswith that graphic power which distinguishes Mr.Headley above every other American writer. The Eight full-page Steel Plate Illustrations, fromoriginal designs by A. L. Rawson, the celebrated trav-eler and artist, are an important and attractive featureof the work. Complete in one large octavo volume ofover 600 pages. In fine English cloth binding,In fine English cloth, gilt edge,In extra full morocco, gilt edge, $3 504 OO6 OO AGENTS WANTED. E. B. TREAT, Publisher. 805 Broadway, lf.T. 62 1LLUST R A T ED N EW YORK Metropolitan Police Head-quarters, 300 Mulberry-street. m There are included in the Metropolitan Police District thirty-two Precinrtswith a force of two thousand two hundred and thirty-two men, exclusive ofthe Westchester towns recently annexed to the city. (See description)
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Head-quarters New York Fire Department, 127 Met xer-street. The Department lias forty-two steam fire-engines and four chemical en-gines drawn by horses, and six self-propelling engines, with a force of sixhundred and eighty-seven men and one hundred and eighty-six horses, thefinest and best trained in America. AND PHILADELPHIA. 63 New York Church History. Reformed (Dutch).—To this Churchmust be given the credit of perfectingthe first Church organization in Manhat-tan in 1625. Regular records have beenpreserved since 1639. They now havefourteen churches and eight missions.The church corner of 57th-street and Mad-ison Avenue, Rev. Dr. Ganse, pastor, isthe finest edifice of this denomination. The Protestant Episcopal Churchservice was first held in 1664, upon thesurrender of the Dutch to the English.Trinity was endowed by Queen Anne,and is the mother of Episcopal Churchesin America. It is the richest religiouscorporation on the Continent, consistingmostly of city real estate valued at

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