Street scene showing Fifth Street with the Old Lutheran Church (i.e., St. Michael's Church). Depicts well-dressed white women in small groups, a woman and child, and men strolling passed the church, a horse-drawn carriage traveling down the street, and three white men conversing around a horse hitched to a post near two African American girls. One of the girls holds out her hand. Also shows dogs standing and running in the street. St Michael's Church, built 1743-1748 and demolished in 1872, was occupied in 1777 by British chaplains and used as the garrison church of the British troops during the American Revolution., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 7., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator
W. Birch & Son
Date
1800
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 7/P.2276.13]
View on Fifth Street above Walnut Street including the halls of the Library Company of Philadelphia (built 1790) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (built 1792). Depicts patrons entering and leaving the Palladian style red brick library building; men and a boy playing dice on the sidewalk; a blacksmith working in his shop; and a man leading a horse-drawn cart down the street. The Library Company, established by Benjamin Franklin and his Junto in 1731, remained at the hall designed by Dr. William Thornton until 1880; the building razed in 1887. Surgeons or Anatomical Hall served as a lecture room and chemistry laboratory for the University's medical students until 1807., Title from duplicate print., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 19.
Creator
W. Birch & Son
Date
1799
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 19a/P.2276.42]
