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

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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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Figure 1: Philadelphia Diversity Index

Figure 2: Ethnic Composition of Philadelphia, 1790

Figure 3: Migration to Philadelphia, 1783-1799

Figure 4: John Hills Map of Philadelphia with Names of Major Streets, 1796

Figure 5: Ethnicity Philadelphia, 1789-91 (Proportions of German Householders)

Figure 6: Mixed Green Street

Figure 7: Shopkeepers, Grocers, and Bakers

Figure 8: Lower-Income Artisans

Figure 9: Ethnicity Philadelphia, 1789-91 (Proportions of Scots and Scots Irish Householders)

Figure 10: Ethnic Composition of Merchants, 1789-91

Figure 11: Proportion of Ethnic Groups who were Laborers in Philadelphia, 1789-91

Figure 12: Ethnicity Philadelphia, 1789-91 (Proportions of Irish Householders)

Figure 13: Small Businesspeople in Philadelphia, 1789-91

Figure 14: Philadelphia, 1789-91 (Slaveowner Householders)

Figure 15: Ethnicity Philadelphia, 1789-91 (Proportions of African American Householders)

Figure 16: Philadelphia, 1789-91 (Free African American Householders)