Details
Title Independence Hall in 1776 [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia?]
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 15 x 24 cm (5.5 x 9.25 in)
Description View looking east showing the State House at 520 Chestnut Street built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Includes the old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. (500 Chestnut) and Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut). View also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a conestoga wagon and the adjacent street corner.
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 876
Gift of David Doret.
Subject City Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Congress Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Carriages & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 520.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Evans, David, Jr., fl. 1794-1806, architect.
Associated name Hamilton, Andrew, ca. 1676-1741, architect.
Associated name Woolley, Edmund, ca. 1695-1771, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Government Buildings - S [P.2011.51.8]
Accession number P.2011.51.8