Excerpt from Desilver's Philadelphia Directory and Stranger's Guide, for 1828: Containing a Plan of the City and Suburbs, the Names of the Citizens Alphabetically Arranged, With Their Occupations and Places of Abode; A List of the Streets, Alleys, Lanes, Courts, Roads and Wharves, Banks, Insurance Companies Also warrants all \vater Closets manufactured by him to be perfectly sweet and in every respect to answer the purpose for which they were invented. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.