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What’s Out There Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dear What’s Out There Weekend Visitor, Welcome to What’s Out There Weekend! The materials in this guide will tell you about the history and design of the places you can tour during this event, the sixth in a series that we offer each year in cities and regions throughout the United States. Please keep it as a reference for future explorations of Philadelphia’s unrivaled legacy of significant landscapes. On May 18 and 19, 2013, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) will host What’s Out There Weekend, providing residents and visitors opportunities to discover and explore more than two-dozen of the city’s publicly accessible sites through free, expert-led tours. Philadelphia has some of the nation’s most diverse landscapes spanning more than two centuries of design including hidden gems in Fairmount Park, the Beaux Arts grounds of the Rodin Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Colonial Revival and Modernist design near Independence Hall and Society Hill, and the Postmodernist plazas of Venturi Scott Brown. The goal of What’s Out There Weekend is to tell the fascinating stories of Photo courtesy of Phila. Parks & Rec Philadelphia’s shared landscape heritage. The tours reveal the design history of these valued places and the individuals who designed them, along with insights about city shaping and landscape architecture. What’s Out There Weekend covers a sampling of the sites found in the Web-based What’s Out There, the most comprehensive, searchable database of the nation’s historic designed landscapes. The free and profusely-illustrated database offers a broad and interconnected way to discover the breadth of our landscape legacy, while What’s Out There Weekend gives people the opportunity to experience the landscapes they see every day in a new way. On behalf of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, I thank you for participating in What’s Out The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) There Weekend, and hope you enjoy the tours. TCLF provides the tools to see, understand and value landscape architecture and its practitioners in the way many people have learned to do with buildings and their designers. Through its Web site, lectures, outreach and publishing, TCLF Sincerely, broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide to help safeguard our priceless heritage for future generations. learn more at tclf.org Charles A. 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    Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. 7407 La Jolla Boulevard www.raremaps.com (858) 551-8500 La Jolla, CA 92037 [email protected] A Letter From William Penn Proprietary and Governour of Pennsylvania In America, To The Committee of the Free Society of Traders of That Province, residing in London. with a Portraiture or Plat-form thereof . 1683 (First Map of Philadelphia) Stock#: 37576a Map Maker: Holme Date: 1683 Place: London Color: Uncolored Condition: VG Size: 10 x 7 inches Price: SOLD Description: A foundational document of Colonial America, with the first printed map of a North American City. William Penn's Letter… (1683) includes the first printed map of the city and the earliest design for a planned community in America. It is a critical primary document relating to the foundation of Pennsylvania, and one of the most important 17th Century imprints relating to America. The map is accompanied by the printed Letter... by William Penn, Pennsylvania's founder, explaining and promoting his new colony to prospective investors and settlers. It also includes the original Advertisement... by Thomas Holme, Penn's official surveyor, explaining his map of Philadelphia. The following is a link to the map: {{ inventory_enlarge_link('37576a') }} William Penn, Thomas Holme and the Foundation of Philadelphia William Penn (1644-1718) was a Quaker convert and the son of English Admiral Sir William Penn (1711-70). Much of Penn's early adulthood had been spent promoting Quakerism, a doctrinally strict but, in many ways, socially enlightened sect of Christianity. While estranged from his father and persecuted by royal authorities over his religious beliefs, Penn nevertheless inherited his father's estate and the large debt owed to Sir William by Charles II.