Reversed view set during the colonial era showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 at Third and High (Market) streets. The site included a debtor's jail (High Street side) and workhouse (Third Street side) joined together by a wall that formed part of a yard enclosure. Men in colonial attire walk in front of the jail and past the wall to the workhouse. A horse stands between two small outbuildings in the right of the image. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp., Manuscript note on recto: Same in 2 book. Reversed and variant in th [sic] book., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 726, Gift of James Rush., See Martin Snyder, "William J Breton, Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Artist," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (April 1961), p. 194 about the later impressions of the view reversed and printed from a redrawn stone.
Creator
Breton, William L., artist
Date
[1830]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Prisons [9245.Q.24]
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., 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., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 1, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Prints - small - Prisons, Box 39, Inscribed on verso: Mrs. Hampton L. Carson 5/21/[19]25.
Date
[1875]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Prints - small - Prisons, Box 39
