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A year before the completion of the Union Pacific railroad this thriving Nebraska city that had been designated as the line's eastern terminus was enjoying a land boom that extended its grid of streets from the banks of the Missouri River almost to the horizon.
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| Size: 15¼" x 19¼" - Color, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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Settlement began at the falls of the Willamette River as early as 1832 with the construction of a flour and sawmill. Surveyed years later at the request of Dr. John McLoughlin of the Hudson Bay Company, Oregon City served at the first territorial capital.
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| Size: 19" x 26½" - Toned, Cover-stock Paper: $32.50 |
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The large and prosperous California city shown in this lithograph had been founded less than twenty years earlier. A series of border views provides more detail of some of its elaborate mansions and public buildings.
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| Size: 14¾” x 22¾” - Black & White, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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Thomas Holme drew this detailed map of the settled portion of Pennsylvania for William Penn to show the boundaries and indentify the owners of estates in the vicinity of Philadelphia. Our facsimile is from a reduced version published in London about 1700.
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| Size: 14½” x 19½” - Black & White, Text-weight paper: $10.00 |
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This view by an anonymous artist in 1743 shows the Spanish settlement on Santa Rosa Island first established in 1723. It was published by Isaac Tirion in his Historie of Tegenwoordige Staat van Amerika of 1769.
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| Size: 5¾" x 10¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Henry Wellge's appealing toned lithograph records the appearance of this Florida city before its modern development as a resort community and shipping center on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
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| Size: 20½" x 26" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $32.50 |
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William Penn's plan for his great city of Philadelphia was published in London a year after its founding. The gridiron street pattern, the five large squares, and the size of the city were the features that made this plan unique among all those of the English colonies.
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| Size: 11¾” x 17½” - Black & White, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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Published in 1875 to celebrate the nation's centennial, this fascinating toned lithograph depicts the city in its early years with buildings huddled between Dock Creek and Market Street and extending only a few blocks inland from the Delaware River.
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| Size: 18½" x 24¾" - Toned, Cover-stock Paper: $30.00 |
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This four-sheet view of Philadelphia by Burgis includes such landmarks as Christ Church, the State House, Academy, Presbyterian Church, Dutch Calvinist Church, the Courthouse, Quakers Meeting House, and High Street Wharf. Set of four sheets.
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| Size: 22¾" x 77¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $110.00 |
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The 1754 view of Philadelphia by Burgis was updated in 1756 and includes more descriptive text than the earlier view. It also identifies such landmarks as Christ Church, the State House and Academy, Presbyterian Church, Dutch Calvinist Church, the Courthouse, Quakers Meeting House, and other important sites.
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| Size: 9¾" x 32¾" - Black & White, Text-weight paper: $32.50 |
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