View showing Chestnut Street between Fifth and Sixth streets including Independence Hall (built from 1732-48) and the U.S. Supreme Court building, orginally built in 1791 for a city hall. In the foreground, a woman and child walk passed a guardhouse and pump. The State House, built after the designs of Andrewr Hamilton and Edmund Wooley, was initially used as the meeting place of the Pennsylvania Assembly. The U.S. Supreme Court adjudicated in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1800., 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. 21.
Creator
W. Birch & Son
Date
1798
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 21/P.2276.47]
