1710 The prison at 3rd & High (Market) sts
still image
Graphic
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860
pau
Philadelphia
[1875]
1860
monographic
eng
1 print : lithograph, tinted with two stones; 9 x 14 cm.(3.5 x 5.25 in.) oval.
Detail of a view looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls (built 1710) during the colonial era. Shows a couple in colonial attire walking on the sidewalk and two men in a stockade at the jail. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles was replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765.
D. C.
Originally part of the lithograph titled "Philadelphia in the Olden Times," printed by F.J. Wade, Philadelphia, and copyrighted in 1875 by Smith & Cremens in Washington, D.C. [HSP Bc 864 W 121]
Not in Wainwright.
High Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Prisons
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Markets
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
HSP Prints - small - Prisons, Box 39
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