Details
Title 1710 The prison at 3rd & High (Market) sts. [graphic] / D. C.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [1875]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with two stones; 9 x 14 cm.(3.5 x 5.25 in.) oval.
Description Detail of a view looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls (built 1710) during the colonial era. Shows a couple in colonial attire walking on the sidewalk and two men in a stockade at the jail. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles was replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765.
Notes Originally part of the lithograph titled "Philadelphia in the Olden Times," printed by F.J. Wade, Philadelphia, and copyrighted in 1875 by Smith & Cremens in Washington, D.C. [HSP Bc 864 W 121]
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 1
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Prints - small - Prisons, Box 39
Inscribed on verso: Mrs. Hampton L. Carson 5/21/[19]25.
Subject High Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Prisons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Markets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Prints - small - Prisons, Box 39