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
View looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls during the colonial era. Shows men in colonial attire walking on the sidewalks and street and two African American men in a stockade and attached to a whipping post near the jail. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles were replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765., Title from item., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time:....Embellished with engravings, by T.H. Mumford (Philadelphia, 1844), vol. 1 and later editions., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Mumford, Thomas Howland, -1816, engraver
Date
[ca. 1844]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pr Pr - 8x10 - Prisons - H [(7)1322.F.231]
