Commissioners Hall, Northern Liberties, Phila
Kuchel, Charles Conrad
1820-
artist
Scott, Thomas M.
artist
P.S. Duval & Co.
printer
still image
Graphic
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860
pau
Philadelphia
PA. Philadelphia
P.S. Duval & Co's Steam lith press
[1853]
1853
monographic
eng
1 print : hand-colored lithograph, tinted with two stones ; sheet 50 x 66 cm (19.75 x 26 in.)
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.
CK; Thos. M. Scott, pinxt.
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Commissioners Hall (Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American men
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Children
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
City & town halls
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Pedestrians
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Police stations
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Sleds & sleighs
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Snow
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Winter
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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