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[Police Station, Union Street between Third and Fourth streets, south side, Philadelphia.] [graphic].
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Creator
Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer.
Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title
[Police Station, Union Street between Third and Fourth streets, south side, Philadelphia.] [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date
August 1860
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen; 22 x 17 cm.(8.75 x 6.75 in.)
Description
View looking east showing the Third District police station occupying a residence on the 300 block of Union Street between Spruce and Pine streets. Includes a group of men and boys seated and standing in front of the building. Sign printed "Police Station" adorns the window. Also shows adjacent buildings. A single city police district was organized by an act of the Assembly in 1850, which expanded into separate districts for each ward following the consolidation of the city in 1854. Police stations occupied rented spaces before the city began building its own facilities in the late 1850s-1860s.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative.
Inscribed in negative: 13.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject
Police stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Union Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 300 block -- South side.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Odiorne - P [(7)1322.F.39c
Accession number
(7)1322.F.39c
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Henry B. Odiorne Photograph Collection
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