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Maps: Four block area, Hamilton Village, West Philadelphia
Elvino V. Smith's 1909 Atlas of the 27th & 46th wards

Hamilton Village, 38th to 40th and Walnut to Spruce Streets, detail pieced together from plates 4 and 5 of E.V. Smith's 1909 Atlas

Description:

Sections of Plates 4 and 5 pieced together to show the four block area of Hamilton Village from 38th to 40th Streets, between Walnut to Spruce Streets

Atlas of the 27th & 46th wards of the city of Philadelphia: from private plans, actual surveys & official records.
Compiled & published by Elvino V. Smith, 1909.

 


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