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Penny Pot Tavern & landing, and Griscom's Academy. [graphic].
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Creator
Breton, William L., artist.
Contributor
Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography, printer.
Title
Penny Pot Tavern & landing, and Griscom's Academy. [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia: Kennedy & Lucas Lith]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1830
Date
[1830]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph; 12 x 17 cm. (4.5 x 6.75 in.)
Description
Book illustration showing the 18th-century inn named for serving beer at a penny a pot on Vine Street below Front Street. Includes a man seated on a pile of logs at the nearby landing, a partial view of a ship at the neighboring shipyard of Charles West, and a horse-drawn cart traveling past the tavern. Also shows the row of treble stone buildings, the private academy advertised in 1770 and operated by D. Griscom at Front and Water streets, in the background.
Notes
Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 139.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 565
Subject
West, Charles.
Griscom's Academy (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Taverns (Inns) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Shipyards -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Vine Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 000 block.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1820-1830.
Book illustrations -- 1820-1830.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Hotels [P.8970.34]
Accession number
P.8970.34
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Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Philadelphia on Stone: Library Company of Philadelphia
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