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
Children's moral instruction book showing a butcher driving a horse-drawn cart loaded with quarters of meat away from a market shed in the background. A dog runs ahead of the horse in the foreground. Homes and a church spire are visible in the tree-lined distance., Date supplied by cataloger., Published as illustration on page 44 in City Sights for Country Eyes ([Philadelphia]: American Sunday School Union, [1856])., Accompanied by text titled "The butcher" describing food production and the role of the butcher, who brings the meat from the slaughterhouses to the city markets. Praises food production as the work of God: "Think what millions of creatures upon the earth, as well as in the air and in the deep sea, receive their daily food from His hands!", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 71, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8343.44, Free Library of Philadelphia: \\RBD\\ASSU\\V\\C498S\\FACSIM.\\
Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date
[1856]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8343.44
Plate from children's moral instruction book showing a farmer selling his goods to a female shopper from his horse-drawn wagon on the city street. Poultry hangs from the cart, and other farm made goods are organized in crates. Two gentlemen stand on the sidewalk in the background (left)., Published in Common sights in town & country. Delineated & described for young children (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street, [ca. 1853])., Accompanied by text titled "The farmer at the market" praising the life of the "honest thrifty farmer" who provides city residents with food from his harvest., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 244, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8342.54
Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date
[ca. 1853]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8342.54
