Details
Creator Kuchel, Charles Conrad, b. 1820, lithographer.
Contributor Scott, Thomas M. artist.
Illustrator Scott, Thomas M., artist.
Printer P.S. Duval & Co., printer.
Title Commissioners Hall, Northern Liberties, Phila. [graphic] / CK; Thos. M. Scott, Pinxt.
Publisher Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Co's Steam lith Press,
Date [ca. 1852]
Extent 1 print: lithograph, 2 col., hand-colored; 50 x 66 cm.(19.75 x 26 in.)
Description Exterior winter view of the hall with fenced property, adorned with an American flag, and containing the district's police station and Mayor's office, on busy snow covered Third Street between Buttonwood and Green streets. Several warmly dressed pedestrians, hall officals, and a policeman mill about and converse on the sidewalk; children throw snowballs and play with a sled; horse-drawn sleighs pass by; men shovel snow off the street and hall steps; and an African American man trudges passed carrying a basket of celery and a dead goose. A broadside inscribed, "Washington, 22nd Feb. 1852" adorns a nearby building. Prior to the city's consolidation with bordering townships in 1854, neighborhoods maintained and housed their own police stations, mayors, and other government officials in Commissioners Halls, including Northern Liberties. Built in 1814, the Northern Liberties' hall served as the quarters of the Northern Liberty Barracks until the American Revolution, and was torn down in 1880 for the erection of Northern Liberties Grammar School.
Notes Date of publication supplied by Wainwright.
Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of an American City (Philadelphia: Camino Books in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990), p. 199. Incorrectly identified as Commissioners Hall, Spring Garden.
Genre Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1860.
Subject Commissioners Hall (Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, Pa.)
City & town halls--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Police stations--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
African American men--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Winter--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Spatial coverage Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)--North--281.
Is part of Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by Wainwright 79.
Has format TMP.objres.4388.jpg
Related resource http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W079.htm
Call number Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W 79 [P.2034]
Accession number P.2034