Details
Contributor Powell, Samuel, 1673?-1756, builder.
Title Old Court House & Market postcards. [graphic].
Date 1905-1908
Physical Description 2 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Depicts the Old Court House and Market at the corner of Second and Market Streets looking west, showing the market sheds extending to Fourth Street. Also known as the Great Towne House, built in 1707 by Samuel Powell. Demolished in 1837.
Notes Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white.
Accession numbers: P.9049.5 and P.9049.16.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Government facilities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Courthouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Markets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 000 block.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Associated name Powell, Samuel, 1673?-1756, builder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP postcards - Government buildings - [various]
Accession number various
P.9049.5