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  • Engelhardt, George Washington, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, The Book of Its Bourse & Co-operating Bodies, Philadelphia, Lippincott Press, 1898-99., p. 33
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    Client/Project Name: Schuylkill River
     
  • Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Collection at the Library of Congress
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    Client/Project Name: The New Public Buildings (HABS PA-1530)
     
  • Teitelman, Edward, and Richard W. Longstreth. Architecture in Philadelphia: A Guide. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974., p. 81
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Sharp, J. Facts In Relation to the Progressive Increase, Present Condition, and Future Prospects of Philadelphia Philadelphia: J. Sharp, 1838.
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Westcott, Thompson. The Official Guide Book to Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1875., p. 107
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    Client/Project Name: Courtyard of the New Public Buildings
     
  • Moorland Studios Inc. The Restoration of the William Penn Statue. Stockton, NJ: Moorland Studios Inc, 1989.
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Williams, Oliver P. County Courthouses of Pennsylvania: A Guide. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001., p. 158-180
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    Client/Project Name: City of Philadelphia / Philadelphia City Hall
    Architect Referenced: McArthur, John, Jr. (1823 - 1890)
     
  • Society of Architectural Historians. Massey, James C. ed. Two Centuries of Philadelphia Architectural Drawings, Catalogue of the Exhibit Held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Society of Architectural Historians and The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1964., p. 62-64
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    Client/Project Name: City of Philadelphia / Philadelphia City Hall
    Architect Referenced: McArthur, John, Jr. (1823 - 1890)
     
  • Illustrated Philadelphia: Its Wealth and Industries. American Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889., p. 35
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    Client/Project Name: Philadelphia City Hall
     
  • Illustrated Philadelphia: Its Wealth and Industries. American Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889., p. 55
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    Client/Project Name: Market Street, from Twelfth St.
     
  • Illustrated Philadelphia: Its Wealth and Industries. American Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889., p. 70
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    Client/Project Name: South Broad Street
     
  • Sipes, William B. Pennsylvania Railroad, Historical and Descriptive. Philadelphia: The Passenger Department, 1875., p. 60
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    Client/Project Name: New Public Buildings
     
  • The Official Office Building Directory and Architectural Handbook of Philadelphia, The Commercial Publishing and Directory Co., Philadelphia, 1899, p. 168
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    Client/Project Name: City Hall-Public Buildings
    Architect Referenced: McArthur, John, Jr. (1823 - 1890)
     
  • Bach, Penny Balkin. Public Art in Philadelphia. Philadephia: Temple University Press, 1992., p. 202-204
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    Client/Project Name: City of Philadelphia / Philadelphia City Hall
    Architect Referenced: Calder, Alexander Milne (1846 - 1923 )
     
  • Thomas, George E.Buildings of Pennsylvania Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, Society of Architectural Historians, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2010, p. 82
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    Client/Project Name: City of Philadelphia / Philadelphia City Hall
    Architects Referenced: McArthur, John, Jr. (1823 - 1890); Myers, Hyman; Powell, Washington Bleddyn (1854-1910)
     
  • Philadelphia Commissioners for the Erection of the Public Buildings. Guide to the City Hall, Philadelphia. Philadelphia: George G. Pierie, Chief of Bureau of City Property, 1900.
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Pennsylvania R.R. Scenery 1890., p. 1
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    Client/Project Name: Philadelphia City Hall
     
  • National Register. (National Register Information System)
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    Client/Project Name: Philadelphia City Hall
     
  • Philadelphia Commissioners for the Erection of the Public Buildings. Reply of the Commissioners for the Erection of the Public Buildings Philadelphia: the Commissioners, 1884.
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Pennsylvania Cultural Resources Geographic Information System, a cooperative venture of the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
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    Client/Project Name: Philadelphia City Hall
     
  • King, Moses. Philadelphia and Notable Philadelphians. New York: Blanchard Press, Isaac H. Blanchard Co., 1901., p. 1, 34
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    Client/Project Name: City Hall
     
  • Edmunds, Franklin Davenport, ed. The Public School Buildings of the City of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pa., 1913-, p. 629
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    Client/Project Name: City of Philadelphia / Philadelphia City Hall
    Architect Referenced: Sharpless & Watts (fl. 1850 - ?)
     
  • Webster, Richard J., Philadelphia Preserved. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1976., p. 105-106, 114, 119, 122,139-140
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Cooledge, Harold N. Jr. Samuel Sloan: Architect of Philadelphia 1815-1884. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986)., p. 211, 224
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    Client/Project Name: City of Philadelphia / Philadelphia City Hall
    Architect Referenced: Sloan, Samuel (1815-1884)
     
  • White, Theo B., ed., Philadelphia Architecture in the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953., p. 15, 30, plate 54
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    Client/Project Name: Philadelphia City Hall
    Architects Referenced: McArthur, John, Jr. (1823 - 1890); Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
     
  • Wilson Brothers Company. Catalogue of Work Executed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1885., p. 5
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    Client/Project Name: Trestle Used in Constructing New City Hall
    Architect Referenced: Wilson Brothers & Company (fl. 1876-1902)
     
  • Engelhardt, George Washington, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, The Book of Its Bourse & Co-operating Bodies, Philadelphia, Lippincott Press, 1898-99., p. 5
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    Client/Project Name: William Penn Statue
     
  • Engelhardt, George Washington, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, The Book of Its Bourse & Co-operating Bodies, Philadelphia, Lippincott Press, 1898-99., p. 8
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    Client/Project Name: Public Buildings
     
  • Bach, Penny Balkin. Public Art in Philadelphia. Philadephia: Temple University Press, 1992., p. 202-203
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    Client/Project Name: City of Philadelphia / Philadelphia City Hall
    Architects Referenced: Calder, Alexander Milne (1846 - 1923 ); McArthur, John, Jr. (1823 - 1890)
     
  • Plans of New Public Buildings, Philadelphia
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    Client/Project Name: City of Philadelphia / Philadelphia City Hall
     
  • O'Gorman, James F., and Jeffrey A. Cohen, George E. Thomas, G. Holmes Perkins. Drawing Toward Building, Philadelphia Architectural Graphics, 1732-1986. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986., p. 132-134, 208-209, cat. 56, 103
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Tatum, George B., Penn's Great Town. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961., p. 109, 125, 193-194, plate 117
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Philadelphia Commissioners for the Erection of the Public Buildings. Plans of New Public Buildings, Philadelphia. New Haven: Research Publications, 1972.
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Cultural Resources Database
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    Client/Project Name: Philadelphia City Hall
     
  • Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 3, n. 7, 2/20/1888
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
    Architect Referenced: McArthur, John, Jr. (1823 - 1890)
     
  • The Engineering Magazine Devoted to Industrial Progress, New York, v. VIII, n. 5, p. 899-900, 2/1895
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    Client/Project Name: City of Philadelphia / Philadelphia City Hall
     
  • AIA/T-Square Yearbook, p. 215, 1909
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    Client/Project Name: Finance Committee Room, City Hall
     
  • Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 32, n. 31, p. 505, 8/1/1917
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    Client/Project Name: Philadelphia / City Hall
    Architect Referenced: Roletter, Joseph A. (fl. 1901 - 1936)
     
  • Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 33, n. 27, p. 393, 7/3/1918
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    Client/Project Name: City of Philadelphia / City Hall
    Architect Referenced: Roletter, Joseph A. (fl. 1901 - 1936)
     
  • Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 43, n. 14, p. 183, 4/2/1919
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    Client/Project Name: City of Philadelphia / City Hall
    Architect Referenced: Roletter, Joseph A. (fl. 1901 - 1936)
     
  • Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 53, n. 12, p. 77, 3/23/1938
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    Client/Project Name: City of Philadelphia / City Hall (alts. to 4th Floor)
    Architects Referenced: Philadelphia Department of City Architecture; Yeatman, Georgina Pope (1902 - 1982)
     
  • Philadelphia Art Commission Annual Report., v. 44, p. 15, 1954
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    Client/Project Name: City of Philadelphia / City Hall
    Architect Referenced: Lovatt, George Ignatius, Jr. (1900-1973)
     
  • AIA/T-Square Yearbook, p. Cover, 8, 1972
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    Client/Project Name: Philadelphia City Hall
    Architect Referenced: McArthur, John, Jr. (1823 - 1890)
     
  • Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/31/2003
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    Client/Project Name: City of Philadelphia / Philadelphia City Hall
     
  • Lewis, Michael J., "Silent, Weird Beautiful": Philadelphia City Hall, Nineteenth Century, Volume 11:3&4, p. 13
     
  • Philadelphia Register of Historic Places (Imported)
     
  • National Register Information System database (imported May 8, 2001)
     
  • HABS/HAER/HALS list for Philadelphia and surrounding counties (imported November 8, 2001)
     
  • Moorland Studios, Inc., Visual Survey of the William Penn Monument, City Hall Tower, Philadelphia, PA, Report prepared for Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, 2000
     

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