Image:Philadelphia1755.jpg

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1756
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An East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, taken by George Heap from the Jersey Shore, under the direction of Nicholas Scull, Surveyor General of the Province of Pennsylvania. This famous view of Philadelphia also contains a map of the city's grid of streets titled A PLAN OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA. This map is reproduced in Swift (2001) dated circa 1755. The image here is from Jeffrey's A general topography of North America and the West Indies published in 1768, from the Library of Congress. Heap's original view did not contain the map and was prepared circa 1752 and printed circa 1754. The view containing the map came later and M. P. Snyder dates it 1756.

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Maps of Pennsylvania: 1750 to 1754 Pennsylvania Maps, number 1753.4.

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