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Title: Historical and commercial Philadelphia handsomely illustrated : with supplement of the World's Columbian Exposition
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: New York : Parsons
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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untry beyond as the city grew. It truly was a conception of a master-mind and so faith-fully executed that the growth of the city to-day is still progressing on this same wise plan ,1 serves in .1 great degree to give the city that appearance oftness and of pet ct order which is one of us most striking characteristics. The territorythus mapped out by Penn was ol such generous dimensions that for nearly a century itd 0 encompass ihi growth -1 the city. When we reflect that during this period Phila-delphia had become the superioi ol New York as a 1 mercia 1 can the better ii\ eness ol Penns plan-.Latei on the development ol the city was. as Penn had correctly judged, mainly tn thecountry districts to the north, within convenient distance of the main city, which steadily in this line. ;ion and in time absorbed these suburban distrnts. which being laid out on the same rectangular plan as the older city, now form a pari of a symmetrical whole. The HISTORICAL AND COMMERCIAL PHILADELPHIA. 59
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60 HISTORICAL AND COMMERCIAL PHILADELPHIA. 5 are to-day laid oui according to Penns original design, fifty feet in width, and run in ei to river—east and wesl and from north to south, intersecting n rig ■ les The i . iberei nunn rii al order, and Marki I Street, which is one hui i wide, divides the city, into two districts north and south. Till GROWTH OP COMMERCE. idelphia was from the beginning a city oi < ercial importance, and it was Penns di ign to make it such. Very early in its history it became a formidable rival ol Vand soon outstripped her. The new colony so favorably planted attracted to itsell illments of progress and strength. Within two years aftei the founding ol the city, 01 1685, aprinting-office was established, and this was before a printing-office was located in New VorlThe printing-office was the unerring sign of a prosperous community and in the followingor within three years aftei its foundation, Philadelphia had outstripped New \ This wonderful growth ol

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