Excerpt from Rand McNally Philadelphia Guide to the City and Environs: With Maps and Illustrations The city, which was formed in 1854 by the merging of 9 districts, I 3 townships, and 6 boroughs, is now divided into 47 wards. In addition to the large number of people resident within the City limits, more than half a million persons whose homes are in the suburbs have business interests in the city. 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.