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Identifier	Title	Surveyor	Date	Media / Size / Scale	Area / Map Features
130-01 CP	Plan of the Fifth Section of the regulation of the late Township of Blockley. [Resolution Sept. 29, 1858; confirmed May 18, 1896]	Smedley, Samuel L.	1858	Mounted	West Philadelphia, Blockley Township, 5th Section. Bounded by Market St., 55th St., Wyalusing Ave., 49th St. Aspen St., and 46th St. Topography, Mill Creek, mill races
130-01 MTD	Plan of the Fifth Section of the regulation of the late Township of Blockley made under resolution of Councils passed Septr. 29th, 1858.	Smedley, Samuel L.	1859	Mounted	West Philadelphia, Blockley, 5th Section. Bounded roughly by Wyalusing Ave., 55th St., Market St. and 46th St. Topography, shows two different courses for Mill Creek
130-02 MTD	Plan of the Fifth Section of the regulation of the late Township of Blockley. [Resolution Sept. 29, 1858; confirmed May 18, 1896]	Smedley, Samuel L.	1858	Mounted	West Philadelphia, Blockley Township, 5th Section. Bounded by Market St., 55th St., Wyalusing Ave., 49th St. Aspen St., and 46th St. Topography, Mill Creek, mill races
130-03 MTD	Plan of the Fifth Section of a survey of the District of West Philadelphia and Township of Blockley. [Act of Assembly April 3, 1851; surveyed Dec. 29, 1855; approved by Board of Surveyors May 17, 1858; confirmed by Court July 17, 1858]	Lightfoot, Francis	1855	Mounted	West Philadelphia District and Blockley Township, 5th Section. Bounded by Market St., 55th St., Wyalusing Ave., 49th St. Sycamore (Aspen) St., and 46th St. Mill Creek, building footprint at Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, Unusual north arrow.
130-04 MTD	Plan to place on city plan Forty-fourth Street 60 feet wide from Market St. to Haverford St. [Ordinance June 5, 1913; confirmed Sept. 29, 1913]	Johnson, Joseph	1913	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	West Philadelphia. Bounded by Haverford Ave. to Market St., 42nd to 46th Sts. Topography, building footprints and driveways of Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, Mill Creek not shown
130-07 MTD	Plan for placing on City Plan Hoopes Street between 51st Street and 52nd Street [Ordinance Jan. 4, 1902; confirmed May 5, 1902]	Johnson, Joseph	1902	Mounted	West Philadelphia. Bounded by Westminster Ave., 51st St., Ogden St. and 52nd St. Curb elevations
130-12 MTD	Plan for placing on the City Plan May Street of the width of 30 feet from Haverford St. to Fairmount Ave. [Ordinance Jan. 7, 1904; confirmed May 2, 1904]	Johnson, Joseph	1904	Mounted	West Philadelphia. Bounded by Fairmount Ave., Markoe St., Haverford St. and 47th St. Curb elevations
130-18 MTD	Plan for placing on City Plan forty feet wide Reno Street and Funston Street from 50th Street and 51st Street [Ordinance June 18, 1906; confirmed Oct. 1, 1906]	Johnson, Joseph	1906	Mounted	West Philadelphia. Bounded by Parrish St., 50th St., Brown St. and 51st St. Curb elevations
131-01 MTD	Plan of the First Section of the survey of Kingsessing in the Twenty-fourth Ward. [Act of Assembly March 26, 1853; survey returned 1856; confirmed by Court May 1, 1857]	Miller, James	1856	Mounted	Kingsessing, 1st Section. Bounded by Baltimore Ave., Walton St., 53rd St., Woodland Ave., and 45th St. Mill Creek and mill dam (pond) at 45th and Woodland
131-04 MTD	Plan placing upon City Plan St. Bernard St. from Springfield to Florence Ave. 27th Ward, Phila. [Ordinance March 29, 1897; confirmed June 21, 1897]	Gillingham, J. Harvey	1897	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	West Philadelphia. Bounded by Florence to Springfield Aves., 49th to 50th Sts. Building footprints, curb elevations, railroad
131-05 MTD	Plan of Yocum Street from 45-1/2 Street to 46th St, 27th Ward, Phila., as authorized to be stricken from the City Plan [Ordinance Dec. 23, 1895; confirmed Jan. 17, 1898]	Gillingham, J. Harvey	1896	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	West Philadelphia. Bounded by Kingsessing to Woodland Aves., 45th to 46th Sts. Building footprints, curb elevations
131-06 MTD	Plan of Farragut St. from Woodland Ave. to Yocum St. and Yocum St. from Farragut St. to 46th St. in the 27th Ward, Phila. [Ordinance April 13,1896; confirmed July 6, 1896]	Gillingham, J. Harvey	1896	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	West Philadelphia. Bounded by Kingsessing to Woodland Aves., 46th to 47th Sts. Building footprints, curb elevations
131-07 MTD	Plan of Forty-Five and One-Half St. from Yocum St. to Woodland Avenue, 27th Ward Phila. [Ordinance April 13, 1896; confirmed Jan. 17, 1898]	Gillingham, J. Harvey	1896	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	West Philadelphia. Bounded by Kingsessing to Woodland Aves., 45th to 46th Sts. Building footprints, curb elevations
131-17 CP	Plan of the revision of lines and grades with topography of that portion of the Twenty-seventh Ward, Philadelphia embraced within the limits of Plan No. 131 on file in the Department of Surveys [Ordinance Dec. 31, 1883; confirmed May 18, 1885]	Not named	1885	Tracing	West Philadelphia. Bounded by Baltimore and Woodland Aves., 45th to 53rd Sts. Topography, streams
132-01 MTD	Plan of the First Section of the survey and regulation of the late Township of Bristol, Twenty-second Ward Philadelphia.	Lightfoot, Jesse	1857	Mounted	22nd Ward, 1st Section, Bristol. Bounded by Annsbury St. to Fisher's Lane, 2nd to 6th Sts. Wingohocking Creek, Fisher's Lane shown as dotted line, curb elevations
132-02 MTD	Revision of lines and grades and placing The Boulevard upon City Plan No. 132, Forty-second Ward Philadelphia. [Ordinance Dec. 24, 1902; confirmed March 2, 1903]	Brinton, Walter	1903	Mounted	42nd Ward. Bounded by Rockland St., 2nd St., Wingohocking St. and 5th St. Topography, Wingohocking Creek, railroad, building footprints
132-03 MTD	Plan of revision of grades of Fifth Street of the Twenty-second and Twenty-fifth Wards Philada. [Ordinance July 1, 1879; confirmed June 7, 1880]	Not named	1880	Mounted	Bounded by Rockland to Bristol Sts., 3rd to 7th Sts. Wingohocking Creek, railroad, curb elevations
132-04 MTD	Topography on a portion of Plan 132	Bloch, Frits	1889	Mounted	Bounded by Rockland St. to Wingohocking Creek, 2nd to 5th Sts. Topography, Wingohocking Creek and tributary streams, building footprints
132-05 MTD	Plan of the revision of lines and grades on City Plan No. 132 in the Forty-second Ward, Philadelphia. [Ordinances June 23, 1884 and March 15, 1892; survey returned Jan. 20, 1902; confirmed March 3, 1902]	Brinton, Walter	1902	Mounted	Bounded by Rockland to Bristol Sts., 7th to 3rd Sts. Topography, Wingohocking Creek and tributary streams, building footprints. Shows topography and street alignment before Roosevelt Boulevard placed on plan.
132-06 MTD	Plan for striking from City Plan Mayer Street from Fifth St. to Lawrence St., Thirty-third Ward Philadelphia. [Ordinance Dec. 1, 1910; survey returned April 17, 1911; confirmed May 17, 1915]	Brinton, Walter	1911	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	Mayer Street Curb elevations
132-07 MTD	Plan for placing on City Plan Mayer Street from Fifth St. to Lawrence St., Forty-second Ward Philadelphia. [Ordinance Jan. 11, 1908; survey returned March 16, 1908; confirmed Jan. 4, 1909]	Brinton, Walter	1908	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	Mayer Street Curb elevations
132-08 MTD	Plan for placing Raymond Street from Fifth St. to Fourth St. on City Plan No. 132, Forty-second Ward Philadelphia. [Ordinance May 13, 1913; survey returned Aug. 11, 1913; confirmed Dec. 1, 1913]	Brinton, Walter	1913	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	Raymond Street Curb elevations
132-09 MTD	Plan for placing on City Plan Bodine Street from Wingohocking St. to Annsbury St., Forty-second Ward Philadelphia [Ordinance Nov. 4, 1908; survey returned Feb. 15, 1909; confirmed March 1, 1909]	Brinton, Walter	1909	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	Bodine Street Curb elevations
132-10 MTD	Plan for placing on City Plan Lawrence St. and Leithgow St. from The Boulevard to Rockland St. on City Plan No. 132, Forty-second Ward, Philadelphia [Ordinance Jan 30, 1913; confirmed May 6, 1913]	Brinton, Walter	1913	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	Lawrence Street and Leithgow Street Curb elevations
133-01 HP	Plan of all that part of the 1st Section of the late Borough of Frankford, City of Philadelphia…lying northwest of Frankford Street and southwest of Orthodox Street	Shallcross, Isaac	1855	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	Frankford Borough, 1st Section. Northwest of Frankford Street and southwest of Orthodox Street. Very detailed delineation of Frankford Creek, with two mill dams and islands, and various tributaries, curb elevations, sewers penciled in
134-01 HP	[No title. Possibly Thomas Street. "Made in pursuance of an Act of Assembly approved Feb. 28th, 1861 … approved … by the Board of Surveyors and Regulators October 21st, 1872"]	Shallcross, Isaac E.	1861	Paper	Frankford. Bounded by Main St. to Paul St., Church St. to Green St. Curb elevations
134-02 HP	Plan of Gillingham Street Twenty-third Ward Philadelphia	Shallcross, Isaac E.	1873	Paper 1 inch = 100 feet	Frankford, Gillingham Street, 23rd Ward Curb elevations, creek
134-03 HP	Plan of the Second Section of the regulations of Frankford, 23d Ward Philadelphia.	Shallcross, Isaac (probably)	1858	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	Frankford Borough, 2nd Section. Bounded by Frankford St. to Orthodox St.., Stiles and Ashland Sts., and Frankford Creek Frankford Creek, Little Tacony Creek, reservoir for Tackawanna Print Works, Philadelphia & Trenton railroad, curb elevations, benchmark building, penciled annotations
134-04 HP	Plan of the Second Section of the survey and regulation of Frankford, 23d Ward Philadelphia.	Shallcross, Isaac	1858	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	Frankford Borough, 2nd Section. Bounded by Frankford St. to Orthodox St.., Stiles and Ashland Sts., and Frankford Creek Frankford Creek, Little Tacony Creek, reservoir for J. Briggs & Co., Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad, curb elevations, penciled annotations
135-01 MTD	Plan of the Second Section of survey & regulation of the late Township of Bristol, Ninth Survey District, Twenty-second Ward, City of Philadelphia. [Survey returned Nov. 17, 1856; approved by Board of Surveyors Oct. 19, 1857; confirmed by Court Nov. 23, 1857]	Lightfoot, Jesse	1856	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	22nd Ward, 2nd Section, Bristol. Bounded by Ruscomb St., Old York Rd., Cayuga St., Germantown Ave. and E. Logan St. Streams, curb elevations
135-03 MTD	Plan of the revision of lines and grades of Plan No. 135, Twenty-second Ward Philadelphia [Ordinance March 23, 1886; various confirmations, 1886 to 1899]	Stallman, H. A.	1886	Mounted	22nd Ward. Bounded by Germantown Ave., E. Logan St., Stenton Ave., Duncannon St., Broad St. and Cayuga St. Topography, Wingohocking Creek
136-01 HP	Plan of Bridesburg showing the curb regulations as approved by the Borough Council January 1854. Curb heights made to correspond to the City base in 1856. Isaac Shallcross, Sur. 10th dist.	Shallcross, Isaac	1836	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	Bridesburg Frankford Creek, Delaware River, Kirkbride Street, marshland, curb elevations, penciled modern street names
137-01 HP	Plan and profile of the survey and regulation of Broad Street from Montgomery Street to Germantown Road in the Twenty-first Ward of the City of Philadelphia [No date on plan. From City Plans Index (City Archives Record Group 90.15): "Authoriz'd by 2nd sec. ord. approved Oct. 25, 1855]	Siddall, Joseph S.	1855 ca.	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	Broad Street. Bounded by Montgomery to Germantown Aves., 15th to 13th Sts. Monument Cemetery, Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, property owners, curb elevations, profile of Broad Street
137-02 HP	Plan of Wissahickon Street, or Township Line Road, as widened to 50 feet.	Lightfoot, Jesse	1856	Mounted 3/8 inch = 50 feet	Wissahickon Avenue, Franklin Street to Robert's Avenue Curb elevations, property owners, streams crossing road in pencil
138-01 HP	Plan of the wharf line on the Delaware River as fixed by ordinances of the Councils approved December 4, 1856. [Act of Assembly February 2, 1854]	Not named	1856	Mounted 1 inch = 528 feet	Delaware River front, Poquessing Creek to South Philadelphia (nine streets south of Curtin Street), across to the New Jersey shore Windmill Island, Petty's Island, Pennshaukin [Pennsauken] Creek, Pennsylvania Railroad Co. property, Camden, many named tributary streams on both sides of river, soundings, wharf lines, building lines
138-z HP	[No title. Pennsylvania Railroad property at Greenwich Point, South Philadelphia. Attachments: Act of Assembly No. 805, April 4, 1865, and accompanying letter]	Young, Alfred	1865	Tracing 1 inch = 250 feet	South Philadelphia Wharves, Port Wardens Line, river bank,
139-01 MTD	Plan of the revision of lines and grades with topography upon the streets of Plan No. 139, Twenty-seventh Ward Philadelphia. [Ordinance March 20, 1888; confirmed March 18, 1895]	Jones, William H.	1895	Mounted	West Philadelphia. Bounded by Market St. to Baltimore Ave., 52nd to 57th Sts. Topography, Thomas Run (Ameaseka Creek) and tributaries, spring houses, building footprints
139-02 MTD	Plan of the Second Section of a survey and regulation of Blockley. [Act of Assembly April 3, 1851; survey returned 1857; approved by Board of Surveyors Oct. 17, 1870; confirmed by Court Feb. 15, 1871].	Miller, James	1857	Mounted	West Philadelphia, Blockley Township, 2nd Section. Bounded by Baltimore Ave., 52nd St., Market St., and 57th St. Thomas Run at Baltimore Pike, old roads, many penciled additions
139-03 MTD	Plan of Rabbit Lane from Spruce Street to Pine Street and from Fifty-seventh Street to Catharine Street in the Twenty-seventh Ward, authorized to be vacated by ordinance of Council approved Mar. 10th, 1905. [Confirmed Nov. 6, 1905]	Gillingham, J. Harvey	1905	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	West Philadelphia. Bounded by Spruce, 55th, Catharine and 60th Sts. Vacating Rabbit Line, an old diagonal street
140-01 HP	Plan of the regulations of the Third Section of Frankford, 23d Ward Philadelphia.	Shallcross, Isaac	1858	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	Frankford, 3rd Section. Bounded on two sides by Little Tacony Creek, Frankford Ave. and Orthodox St. Little Tacony Creek, mill pond, marshland, curb elevations, bridge at Orthodox Street
140-02 HP	Plan of Margaret Street, Twenty-third Ward, Philada.	Not named	1860 ca.	Mounted	Frankford, Margaret Street Curb elevations
140-03 HP	Plan of Margaret Street, Twenty-third Ward, Philada.	Not named	1860 ca.	Mounted	Frankford, Margaret Street Curb elevations
140-04 HP	Plan of Margaret Street, Twenty-third Ward, Philada.	Not named	1860 ca.	Mounted	Frankford, Margaret Street Curb elevations
140-05 HP	[No title. Possibly plan of Lesher Street. Confirmed Oct. 7, 1872]	Not named	1872	Mounted	Bounded by Paul to Hedge Sts., Orthodox to Meadow Sts. Curb elevations
141-01 HP	Plan of the regulations of the Fourth Section of Frankford, 23d Ward Philadelphia.	Shallcross, Isaac (probably)	1858	Mounted 1 inch = 100 feet	Frankford, 4th Section. Orthodox to Little Tacony Creek, Adams St. to Frankford St. Curb elevations
141-z HP	Oakland Street [Handwritten title on reverse]	Not named	1875 ca.	Mounted	Bounded by Orthodox to Harrison Sts., Leiper to Oakland Sts. Curb elevations
142-01 HP	Plan of the Fourth Section of the survey of the Township of Blockley	Smedley, Samuel L.	1856	Mounted 1 inch = 150 feet	West Philadelphia, Blockley Township, 4th Section. Westminster Ave. to Berks St., Schuylkill River to 49th St. Public Square, Olive Cemetery, Cathedral Cemetery, Sweet Briar Creek, Lansdowne Park, South Belmont property line, curb elevations, sewers, buildings in street, West Philadelphia Water Works (unnamed)
143-01 MTD	Plan of grade regulation of the Sixth Section of the late Township of Blockley [1908 copy of original plan 143-3 MTD]	Johnson, Joseph	1880	Mounted	West Philadelphia, Blockley Township, 6th Section. Bounded by 65th St., Market St., 54th St., Paschall (now Master) St. and Haverford Ave. Topography, Cobb's Creek and tributary streams, building footprints
143-02 MTD	Plan of grade regulation of the Sixth Section of the late Township of Blockley. [Resolution April 26, 1867; either survey returned or confirmation date: Dec. 21, 1867]	Smedley, Samuel L.	1869	Mounted	West Philadelphia, Blockley Township, 6th Section. Bounded by 65th St., Market St., 54th St., Paschall (now Master) St. and Haverford Ave. Cobb's Creek and tributary streams, spring, sewers, curb elevations, old roads, sewer drawn over Cobb's Creek at 63rd and Market Sts.
143-04 MTD	Plan of the Sixth Section of the survey of the District of West Philadelphia and Township of Blockley made in pursuance of two Acts of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania approved respectively on the 3rd of April 1851 and 13th of May 1856. [Survey returned Feb. 18, 1857; approved May 3, 1858; confirmed by Court Dec. 22, 1860]	Lightfoot, Francis; Walton, Joseph	1857	Mounted	West Philadelphia and Blockley, 6th Section. Bounded by Paschall (now Master) St. to Market St., 54th to 65th Sts. Curb elevations, old roads, building footprints. Signed by six Blockley Township commissioners.

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