Details
Creator Hand, Alfred, photographer.
Title Independence Hall. [graphic].
Date ca. 1920
Physical Description 1 negative: glass; 11 x 8 cm. (4 x 3.25 in.)
Description Depicts the south elevation and bell tower of Independence Hall. Built 1732-1748 by Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Extensive renovations and additions completed incrementally between 1750 and 1973. Meeting place of the Second Continental Congress from 1775-1783 and the site where the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776.
Notes Inscribed in negative: 2247.
Title from negative sleeve.
Also identified as the Pennsylvania State House.
Subject Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
City & town halls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 520.
Genre Glass plate negatives -- 1910-1920.
Associated name Hamilton, Andrew, ca. 1676-1741, architect.
Associated name Woolley, Edmund, ca. 1695-1771, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.28]
Accession number P.9259.28