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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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for Diseases of Skin.. .101 East 30th-street. New York, Tumor 101 East 30th-street. New York White-street, corner Center. New York Cancer Hospital 468 Sixth Avenue. New York Homoeopathic 493 Seventh Avenue. New York Orthopaedic 945 Sixth Avenue. North-Eastern 222 East 59th-street North-Eastern Homoeopathic 307 East 55th-street. Northern Waverley Place, corner Christopher-street. North-Western Ninth Avenue, corner 36th-street. Throat and Chest Diseases 47 University Place Union 246 East llth-street Western Homoeopathic 413 West 42d-street. Yorkville 14S2 Third Avenue. Distances in New York. Battery to City Hall, one mile. City Hall to Canal-street half mile. City Hall to Houston-street, one mile. Bleecker-street next above Houston, counts as Firststreet. From here streets are numbered regularly toSpuyten DuyveL, 214th-street. The blocks are gener-ally 200 feet long, and streets mostly 60 feet wide; som«are 80 and 100 feet Eighteen streets or blocks averajjea mile. ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK
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Street Map of Philadelphia and Fairmount Park. AND PHILADELPHIA. 85 Philadelphia* The city of Philadelphia, as laid outby William Pent), in 1681, by a grantfrom Charles II., comprised only thatportion of the present city situated be-tween South and Vine Streets and theDelaware and Schuylkill Rivers. Settle-ments were made, however, outside ofthese boundaries, and in the course oftime they became separately incorporatedand had separate governments, making acongeries of towns and districts, the wholegroup being known abroad simply asPhiladelphia. Several of these were sit-uated immediately contiguous to the cityproper —viz., Southwark and Moyamen-sing to the south, and Northern Liberties,Kensington, Spring Garden and Penndistrict to the north, and West Philadel-phia to the west—all of which were practi-cally one town continuously built up. Be-sides these, there were a number of otheroutlying- townships, villages and settle,ments near the built up town, thoughdetached from-it. Among

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