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Maps: Four-block area of Mantua, West Philadelphia
G.M. Hopkins's 1872 Atlas of the 24th and 27th Wards, West Philadelphia
Description:
Sections of Plates E and F pieced together to show four block area of Mantua bounded by Haverford Ave., 37th St. , present-day Wallace St. (then Eadine or Elm) and 38th St.
Atlas of West Philadelphia including the 24th & 27th Wards of the City of Philadelphia from actual surveys & official records.
Compiled & published by G. [Griffith] M. [Morgan] Hopkins & Co., 1872.
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