03725ckm a2200613 a 4500 000141132 20230712141135.0 kj ho 001019s1853 paunnn kneng d (CPomAG)AFR-498 1 3 10 ppl PPL dcrmg Kuchel, Charles Conrad, 1820-, artist. Commissioners Hall, Northern Liberties, Phila. [graphic] / CK; Thos. M. Scott, pinxt. Philadelphia : P.S. Duval & Co's Steam lith press, [1853] 1 print : hand-colored lithograph, tinted with two stones ; sheet 50 x 66 cm (19.75 x 26 in.) Title from item. Date of publication supplied by Wainwright. Wainwright 79 Exterior winter view of the hall as it looked on February 22, 1852, with adjoining fenced property, adorned with an American flag, and containing the district's police station and Mayor's office, on the busy, snow covered Third Street between Buttonwood and Green streets. Several warmly dressed white pedestrians, hall officials, and a policeman mill about and converse on the sidewalk; white children throw snowballs and play with a sled; horse-drawn sleighs pass by; white men shovel snow off the street and hall steps; and an African American man carrying a basket of celery and a dead goose stops in the street and looks behind him and toward the passing sled. 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 circa 1869 for the erection of Northern Liberties Grammar School. 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. Philadelphia on Stone POS 151 Print described in Public Ledger, July 1, 1853. Accessioned 1982. Description revised 2021. Access points revised 2021. Commissioners Hall (Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, Pa.) African American men Pennsylvania Philadelphia. Children Pennsylvania Philadelphia. lctgm City & town halls Pennsylvania Philadelphia. lctgm Pedestrians Pennsylvania Philadelphia. lctgm Police stations Pennsylvania Philadelphia. lctgm Sleds & sleighs Pennsylvania Philadelphia. lctgm Snow Pennsylvania Philadelphia. lctgm Winter Pennsylvania Philadelphia. lctgm Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) North 281. Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1860. gmgpc Women. 82663 SP3 African American History SP10 Philadelphia artists. Scott, Thomas M. artist. 10870 P.S. Duval & Co., printer. 3396 Imprint PA. Philadelphia. 1853. Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT PRINT **W79 [P.2034] P.2034 2000/10/19 ep 2001/07/23 ja Pr **W79 [P.2034] Pr P.2034 LCPD **Wainwirght 79 [P.2034] (CPomAG)00146079 134155 134155 000141132 CONV 00 20051208 1945 000141132 BATCH-UPD 00 20051211 1216 000141132 20060120 1808 000141132 20060201 1534 000141132 JENNY 40 20070103 1512 000141132 ERIKA 40 20070504 1159 000141132 20071018 1952 000141132 ERIKA 40 20081001 1741 000141132 SARAH 40 20090527 2046 000141132 ERIKA 40 20090907 1747 000141132 ERIKA 40 20090907 1749 000141132 ERIKA 40 20100403 1112 000141132 ERIKA 40 20100419 1906 000141132 LINDAW 40 20100503 1347 000141132 LINDAW 40 20100913 1152 000141132 LINDA 40 20210415 1157 000141132 LINDA 40 20210324 1305 ppl PA. Philadelphia. 1853. Imprint