Dataset: Philadelphia Inventories of Estate 1746-1775
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Wealth inequality
American Revolution
American Studies
Digital Humanities
Econometrics
Economic History
History
Income Distribution
Labor Economics
Labor History
Social History
Social Statistics
Urban Studies and Planning
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See numerous datasets on Mead about 18th century Philly, from tax lists to city directories.
Numerous, including Gary B. Nash, The Urban Crucible (1979); and 1) Billy G. Smith, The "Lower Sort:" Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750‑1800 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990). Hardback and paperback (1993). 2) Billy G. Smith, "Poverty in Early America," in Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, Jacob Ernest Cooke et al., eds., 3 vols. (N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993), 1:483‑494. 3) Billy G. Smith, "The Vicissitudes of Fortune: The Careers of Laboring Men in Philadelphia, 1750‑1800," in Stephen Innis, ed., Work and Labor in Early America (Institute of Early American History: University of North Carolina Press, 1988), 221‑251. Hardback and paperback editions
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PHILADELPHIA INVENTORIES of Estate, 1746-1775 (Project 45). Value of Estates. Source: Inventories of Estate for Philadelphia, Philadelphia City Archives.
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