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$100 Philadelphia 4's ALBERT KELSEY Arch St Balance October 31 Board of Trustees Broad St Bronze Bureau Brothers Cash in Bank Charles E Charles Grafly Chestnut Hill Chestnut St Cohen Commissioners of Fairmount Drexel Bldg Edward Edwin EQUESTRIAN STATUE erected Ericsson Memorial Fairmount Park Art Fountain Fourth St Frederick Fund Park Branch George George W Germantown Germantown PA Girard Avenue Bridge Harrison Henry Horticultural Hall Howell Interest on Bank Interest on Philadelphia James JOSEPH ALLISON STEINMETZ Joseph E Lancey Pl Land Title Bldg LESLIE LESLIE W Locust St Market St Memorial Fund MILLER Mortgages N. E. cor Nineteenth St October 31 Overbrook Park Art Association Parkway pedestal Pennsylvania PERPETUAL MEMBERSHIP Philadelphia 4's cost Pine St presented Real Estate Rittenhouse Robert Morris Robert Morris Memorial ROLAND L Sabin W Samuel Sixteenth St Spruce St Theodore Thomas Twelfth St Twenty-first St U. S. Liberty 41's William H Windrim Wissahickon
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Page 30 - Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
Page 58 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
Page 37 - Captain Ericsson, I congratulate you upon your great success. Thousands have this day blessed you. I have heard whole crews cheer you. Every man feels that you have saved this place to the nation by furnishing us with the means to whip an iron-clad frigate that was, until our arrival, having it all her own way with our most powerful vessels.
Page 58 - he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country. He was a stranger in Philadelphia, but had heard that Mr. Duche " (Dushay they pronounce it) " deserved that character, and therefore he moved, that Mr. Duche, an episcopal clergyman, might be desired to read prayers to the Congress tomorrow morning.
Page 52 - Hall, the place where, as an inscription on the wall proudly testifies, " Henry, Hancock, and Adams inspired the Delegates of the Colonies with Nerve and Sinew for the Toils of War...
Page 18 - ... work of art, until so approved, be erected or placed in or upon, or allowed to extend over or upon any street, avenue, square, common, park, municipal building, or other public place belonging to the city.
Page 60 - I will raise a thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march with them at their head for the relief of Boston.
Page 65 - Commissioners shall be to prepare and furnish to every savings bank, bank, and banking company, or any other corporation incorporated under the laws of this State, or of any other State or Territory,. or foreign country, doing a banking business in this State...
Page 18 - work of art " as used in this title shall apply to and include all paintings, mural decorations, stained glass, statues, bas reliefs or other sculptures; monuments, fountains, arches, or other structures of a permanent character intended for ornament or commemoration. No existing work of art in the possession of the city shall be removed, relocated or altered in any way without the similar approval of the commission, except as provided in section six hundred and thirty-nine of this act.
Page 58 - Adams arose and said that he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from any gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country.