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Identifying and Mapping Ethnicity in Philadelphia in the Early Republic: Maps and Charts

The files below supplement Billy G. Smith and Paul Sivitz's "Notes and Documents: Identifying and Mapping Ethnicity in Philadelphia in the Early Republic," published in Immigration and Ethnicity in Pennsylvania History, a special issue of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (vol. 140, no. 3).

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PDF icon Figure 1: Philadelphia Diversity Index
PDF icon Figure 2: Ethnic Composition of Philadelphia, 1790
PDF icon Figure 3: Migration to Philadelphia, 1783-1799
PDF icon Figure 4: John Hills Map of Philadelphia with Names of Major Streets, 1796
PDF icon Figure 5: Ethnicity Philadelphia, 1789-91 (Proportions of German Householders)
PDF icon Figure 6: Mixed Green Street
PDF icon Figure 7: Shopkeepers, Grocers, and Bakers
PDF icon Figure 8: Lower-Income Artisans
PDF icon Figure 9: Ethnicity Philadelphia, 1789-91 (Proportions of Scots and Scots Irish Householders)
PDF icon Figure 10: Ethnic Composition of Merchants, 1789-91
PDF icon Figure 11: Proportion of Ethnic Groups who were Laborers in Philadelphia, 1789-91
PDF icon Figure 12: Ethnicity Philadelphia, 1789-91 (Proportions of Irish Householders)
PDF icon Figure 13: Small Businesspeople in Philadelphia, 1789-91
PDF icon Figure 14: Philadelphia, 1789-91 (Slaveowner Householders)
PDF icon Figure 15: Ethnicity Philadelphia, 1789-91 (Proportions of African American Householders)
PDF icon Figure 16: Philadelphia, 1789-91 (Free African American Householders)