Details
Creator Breton, William L., artist.
Contributor Carey & Hart, publisher.
Title High Street and market shambles. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia] : [Kennedy & Lucas Lith.]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1830
Date [1830]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; sheet 14 x 23 cm (5.75 x 9 in.)
Description View looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls during the colonial era. Shows white men in colonial attire walking on the sidewalks and street. In the right of the image, an African American man walks beside a white man. Two African American men are depicted in a stockade and attached to a whipping post near the jail. The man attached to the whipping post is attired in a white cloth that is tied around his waist. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles were replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765.
Notes Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 301.
Title from item.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 354
Gift of James Rush.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
RVCDC
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - High (2 copies)
Subject High Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American prisoners -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Markets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Prisons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Punishment device -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ruins -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 000 block.
Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 100 block.
Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 200 block.
Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 300 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1820-1830.
Book illustrations -- 1820-1830.
Printer Carey & Hart, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Markets [9245.Q.21]
Accession number 9245.Q.21