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The Architectural review and American builders' journal (1869)

Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, Lukens, Charles J · [Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger] · leaf 68

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ememberthat within one generation,thirty-threeyears, Philadelphia will, in all likelihood,number two and a half million inhabit-ants. The members of the Park Com-mission, cool-brained gentlemen, offi-cially predict for it within twenty-fiveyears one million and a half. In a newand free country,… … 50 Sloans Architectural Review and Builders Journal. [July, and to plan magnificently. A hundred3ears hence, and this Park will be onlyin its infancy. But if we, of this day,allow its borders to be hemmed andcramped, then, in its true proportions,it will never be at all. Its popularlyaccepted scope…

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