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Title: [Staircase rising above snow-covered boulders, Manayunk, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts people climbing exterior staircase that rises above snow-covered boulders in Manayunk, Philadelphia., Title from manuscript on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The Switzerland of Phila is Manyunk [sic]. No wonder it is said the people of Manyunk [sic] get round shouldered from climbing the hills of that busy section of Phila, but to add stair cases such as these would seem to add insult to injury., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 125a [P.8513.125a], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson125a.htm

Title: [Landscape in winter west of Frankford Elevated terminal at 69th and Market Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of ice and snow-covered trees., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: West of 69" St terminal of El. The houses of the city can be seen east of this point., Similar view to P.8513.59., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 67 [P.8513.67], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson67.htm

Title: [Trees covered in ice and snow near the Frankford Elevated at 69th and Market Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A little west of 69: St. El., terminal. A group of ice laden trees and underbrush., Similar view to P.8513.67., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 59 [P.8513.59], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson59.htm

Title: [Street in Manayunk]
Description: View looking downhill along a street in Manayunk bordered by snow-covered houses, telephone poles, and wires., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Where from this point, the term "down the street" is literally true. Manyunk [sic] - Phila., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.21: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 69.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 217 [P.8513.217], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson217.htm

Title: [Street in Manayunk]
Description: View looking downhill along a street in Manayunk bordered by snow-covered houses, telephone poles, and wires., Photographer's manuscript note on verso of duplicate: Where from this point, the term "down the street" is literally true. Manyunk [sic] - Phila., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.217: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 69.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 21 [P.8513.21], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson217.htm

Title: Franklin Square, winter
Description: Views showing the snow covered public square originally laid out as the Northeast Square in 1683 between Race, Vine, North Sixth, and North Franklin streets. Includes barren trees, path markers, an iron-work fence, and a man leaning on a tree. Renamed Franklin Square in 1825. Square was used as a pasture, burial ground, and a drilling ground for troops., Title from manuscript note on mounts., Grey paper mounts with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., One of the images [(8)1322.F.11a] reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 117., Arcadia caption text: This view shows the snow-covered plaza between Race, Vine, Sixth, and Franklin streets originally known as the Northeast Square and renamed Franklin Square in honor of Benjamin Franklin. The square, described by visitors in the 1850s as a bucolic haven within the city, was previously used as a pasture, a burial ground for the neighboring German Reformed Church, and a drilling ground for troops. This 1860 winter view shows the many trees of the square lining paths that had been fitted with rows of small stools to discourage loitering. The square also contained a noted central marble fountain built in 1837 that can be seen in the c.1870 photograph below. The fountain was one of several improvements to the square following the relinquishment of the grounds by the German Reformed Church c. 1836., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Parks & squares [(8)1322.F.9g; (8)1322.F.11a]

Title: [Trees covered in ice and snow west of 69th Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Snow and ice cover the ground and trees beyond a fence, west of 69th St, Philadelphia., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 69th St. (a few blocks beyond) within sight of City Hall (figuratively). Trees covered with ice., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 79 [P.8513.79], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson79.htm

Title: [Schuylkill River and houses atop hill in Manyaunk, Philadelphia]
Description: View from opposite bank of Schuylkill River of hill in Manayunk. Houses appear on top of hill and at bottom of hill, near river. Ground and river are snow- and ice-covered., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Schuylkill River and cliff dwellings - Manyunk - Phila., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 124 [P.8513.124], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson124.htm

Title: Rittenhouse Sq. Our little magnolia tree in winter time
Description: View of entire magnolia tree in the snow without leaves or blossoms on its branches. Buildings visible in background., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., One of four Wilson images depicting the Rittenhouse magnolia tree in each of the four seasons., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 130 [P.8513.130], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson130.htm

Title: A group of young hill climbers of Manyunk [sic] with a background of overlapping roofs, to say nothing of a weekly wash
Description: Depicts seven children standing in the snow in front of a wooden fence. Background of image includes the backs of houses built on a hill, backyards separated by fences, and wash hanging on clotheslines., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 95 [P.8513.95], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson95.htm

Title: [Cobbs Creek, near the Cobbs Creek Golf Course, Philadelphia]
Description: View of rocky creek bordered by snow-covered ground and trees., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Near Public Golf Course. 69 St. Terminal of El. Trees encased in ice. Water was cold. I know. I slid in - both feet., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 60 [P.8513.60], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson60.htm

Title: [Swann Memorial Fountain, Logan Circle, Philadelphia]
Description: View of the fountain in winter. Covered in ice, the three statues in the fountain spurt water in background. Architect Wilson Eyre, Jr. and sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder collaborated to create the fountain monument built at the bequest of Maria Elizabeth Swann, in memory of her late husband, Wilson Cary Swann, M.D. The three sculpted figures represent the three rivers around Philadelphia: the Indian symbolizes the Delaware River, the young woman depicts the Wissahickon, and the mature woman, the Schuylkill River., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Fountain. Park Boulevard. Winter. Ice pack about 12 ft high. It has been from 15 to 18 ft high. This fountain is run on a circulating system. The same water being used over and over. A series of 3 electric motors in an underground room near the fountain do the pumping. Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in background. Outline of City Hall to the right. Note: Work out spot in sky., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 78 [P.8513.78], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson78.htm

Title: [Two boys in front of the Swann Memorial Fountain in Logan Circle in winter.]
Description: Two boys in snow-covered coats stand on the frozen water of Swann Memorial Fountain looking at the camera. Covered in ice, the three statues in the fountain spurt water in background. Architect Wilson Eyre, Jr. and sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder collaborated to create the fountain monument built at the bequest of Maria Elizabeth Swann, in memory of her late husband, Wilson Cary Swann, M.D. The three sculpted figures represent the three rivers around Philadelphia: the Indian symbolizes the Delaware River, the young woman depicts the Wissahickon, and the mature woman, the Schuylkill River., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Fountain - Park Boulevard. Two citizens who were throwing the bull on the Boulevard. One said he was the best looking kid in his class - the other replied, "G'wan! If you'r [sic] the best-looker in the class I'm Jack Dempsy" [sic] [Dempsey]., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 120 [P.8513.120], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson120.htm

Title: [University of Pennsylvania Botanical Gardens, snow scene along roadway, Philadelphia]
Description: Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Snow scene along roadway in U of P Botanical Gardens., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 69 [P.8513.69], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson69.htm

Title: [University of Pennsylvania Botanical Gardens, snow-covered bushes and trees, with dormitory buildings visible in background, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts snow-covered bushes and trees near iron fence. Towers of Quadrangle dormitory buildings on University of Pennsylvania campus appear in background., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: U. of P. Botanical Gardens. Tops of Dormatory [sic] Gateway on Woodland Ave., corner in distance., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 77 [P.8513.77], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson77.htm

Title: [University of Pennsylvania Botanical Gardens, snow-covered bushes, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows snow covered bushes next to wall., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Botanical Gardens. U. of P. Along rear wall of Phila Gen'l Hospital., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 54 [P.8513.54], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson54.htm

Title: [Smokestacks of an oil tank below Gray's Ferry Bridge, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts industrial area's smokestacks silhouetted against a cloudy sky., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Below Gray's Ferry Bridge. W. side. Chimneys [of] an oil tank and a winter sky., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 52 [P.8513.52], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson52.htm

Title: Scene from s. side w. end South St Bridge, Phila
Description: View of industrial landscape along Schuylkill River south of South Street Bridge against winter sky., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Elect., Chester tie line standards (5000 volts), Coal crane, Grey's [sic] [Gray's] Ferry Bridge, rain soaked flats and winter sky., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 80 [P.8513.80], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson80.htm

Title: Skating. Scene on the River Delaware at Philadelphia. Febry. 12th 1831
Description: Amusing winter genre scene showing several individuals enjoying the frozen river as a place for recreation, travel, and as a place of observation for the February 12, 1831 solar eclipse. In the foreground, several ice skaters, predominately men, skate, perform tricks, and fall. One of the fallen includes an African American man, lying on his back, his hat on the ice near a dog playing with a ball. In the right of the image, a vendor serves beverages from a refreshment stand. In the background, several others skate, ride and pull sleds, or enjoy a horse-drawn sleigh ride., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 696, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 07 S 17, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America, entry #44, Smithsonian, Harry T. Peters Collection: DL*60.3655. Copy hand-colored., Trimmed.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Date: [1831]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 07 S 17

Title: A correct view of the City of Philadelphia on the Delaware River as it appeared on 25th of January 1852
Description: Panoramic and bustling, winter view showing several men, women, and children, on the ice-covered river. In the center foreground, a small crowd gathers around a man reading a newspaper as around them, throngs of individuals traverse the frozen walkway, promenade as couples, make conversation, and fall, laugh, and grab one another as they slip on the ice. Several men skate, boys sled, dogs chase each other, and children frolic, including a pair retrieving a hat from a broken patch of ice. Others peddle refreshments from a table and flee from broken ice as ruffians engage in a fist fight. The cityscape of Philadelphia is visible in the background, including Christ Church and Independence Hall in addition to Spark's Shot Tower and Girard College. Also shows the frozen channel running through Windmill Island covered in barren trees in the far left of the image., Copyrighted by A.A. Dugan., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 165, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 72 R 815, Dugan was a Philadelphia engraver.
Date: c1852
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 72 R 815

Title: Old Philadelphia Views Album
Description: Album of photographs, predominately half stereographs, of landscape views of Philadelphia and Bucks County. Images include views of Frankford Creek, Tohickon Creek, Wissahickon Creek, Tacony Creek, Pleasantville, Crescentville, Germantown, Fairmount Park near the water works, and winter scenery. Also contains photographs of Stenton, Woodlands Cemetery, the Desilverwood Estate (Holmesburg), the Burd family monuments at St. Stephen's Church (Philadelphia), the city garden of Joseph R. Evans (329 Pine Street), Atlantic City, and Richmond, Va. Images include trees, creek banks, rocks, waterfalls, dams, bridges, mills, and farm land. Many also include posed figures, including a man, probably one of Moran's artist brothers Edward or Thomas, painting in a ravine and scenes titled "Student at Work"; "Autumn in the Woods - burning leaves"; and "Sit up Sir" showing a man with a dog.

Title: Old Philadelphia views 1861
Description: Album of photographs, predominately half stereographs, of landscape views of Philadelphia and Bucks County. Images include views of Frankford Creek, Tohickon Creek, Wissahickon Creek, Tacony Creek, Pleasantville, Crescentville, Germantown, Fairmount Park near the water works, and winter scenery. Also contains photographs of Stenton, Woodlands Cemetery, the Desilverwood Estate (Holmesburg), the Burd family monuments at St. Stephen's Church (Philadelphia), the city garden of Joseph R. Evans (329 Pine Street), Atlantic City, and Richmond, Va. Images include trees, creek banks, rocks, waterfalls, dams, bridges, mills, and farm land. Many also include posed figures, including a man, probably one of Moran's artist brothers Edward or Thomas, painting in a ravine and scenes titled "Student at Work"; "Autumn in the Woods - burning leaves"; and "Sit up Sir" showing a man with a dog., Title from inscription on spine., Spine stamped in gilt: Photographs., Blue morocco binding., Photographs arranged four to a page, numbered, and identified by captions inscribed below the images., Letter from Ferdinand J. Dreer to [George W. Childs?], March 12, 1861 pasted on verso of front cover. Letter begins "Accept from your friend a few photographs & stereoscope views... of the work of a young native artist" and explains they were not sent for "their intrinsic value, but as beautiful studies and highly artistic.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box., Gift of Ruth Molloy.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: 1860-1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9265]

Title: The terrible conflagration at Ninth and Washington Streets, Philadelphia On the morning of Wednesday February 8th 1865
Description: Disaster print showing the scene at the "disastrous conflagration commenced in the storage yard [of Blackburn & Co.] at Ninth & Washington Street" in the early morning hours of February 8, 1865. In the foreground, displaced and panicked residents of all ages attired in their night clothes, many holding their few possessions, run down and gather on the snowy streets. Amongst the commotion, police officers assist residents with their possessions (trunks, bedding, and cookware) and direct firefighters toward the blaze and burnt ruins of and surrounding the coal yard. The firefighters transport a ladder, hoses, and hose carriage toward the burning buildings as other volunteers rush to smother a man on fire and comfort a fleeing girl. Others depicted at the scene include two men laying an unconscious man attired in a nightshirt on the ground; a man and woman clutching their children to their chests; and a woman falling and dropping her baby in her flight as a dog runs past them. In the background, a small number of survivors and firefighters carrying victims, run down the 1100 block of Ninth Street that is lined with burning and destroyed buildings. Across from the coal yard, presumably the proprietor, James McManus, holds a bundle, and prepares to exit the doorway of the "Lager Beer Saloon" on the northeast corner of Washington Avenue and Ninth Street. Furniture covers the sidewalk in front of his establishment, the upper floors visibly on fire., Also contains several lines of text explicating the economic and human cost of the fire, including "loss of property" at "$400, 000," the "property destroyed" at about "one hundred structures," and the "List of Dead and Missing - Mrs. Barbara Ware, aged 43 years. Miss Annie Ware, 23 years._Emma Ware, 20 year._Helen Ware, 13 years._Isabella Ware, 4 years._Rebecca Ware._Albert Ware, 17 years._Clayton Ware, 10 years._The Scott Family is missing._Samuel McMenamin Fleetwood". A barrel of coal oil ignited through arson stored at Blackburn & Co. started the blaze shortly after 2 A.M. The fire destroyed the coal yard, which then caused a stream of burning oil to flow down Washington Avenue and Ninth Street that spread the fire to neighboring blocks of Federal and Ellsworth streets., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 746, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Reaccessioned as P.2215., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Fire described in the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 9, 1865, p. 8.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W397 [6549.F]

Title: Souvenir of the coldest winter on record. Scene on the Delaware River at Philada. during the severe winter of 1856
Description: Frolicking genre scene showing hundreds of persons skating and sledding on the frozen river in front of the old Navy Yard at Southwark. Skaters and sledders include men pushing women in chairs with blades, men pushing a sleigh of women passengers, a man pulling a boy on a sled, and a man being pulled by a dog running through a crowd of skaters. In the foreground, a couple stands and watches the activity; a woman peddler, seated on a stool, sells an apple to a boy; and a man has fallen on the ice, near a boy leaning on another boy. In the background, a sleigh ride has been fabricated with several men pushing a large pivoted pole lever to propel a toboggan of women passengers in a circle on an area free from congestion. Watch houses stand near by, with throngs of people surrounding the sheds. Moored ships, steamboats, and sailing vessels line the shore. Also shows distant cityscape., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 704, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb72 Q3
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W342 [P.2190]

Title: Rittenhouse Sq
Description: Group portrait of five girls and one woman in winter coats, hats, and gloves behind snow pile., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: An Allied fortress representing two Polish children and one each American, English, French, Irish, and Italian., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 119b [P.8513.119b], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson119b.htm

Title: W.W. Knight Son & Co. 509, Commerce St. between 5th. & 6th & Market and Arch Sts. Formerly 619, Market St. Philadelphia Skates of all kinds for sale here. Also in cases of 50 & 100 pairs, assd. from 25 c. to 1.50 & 50 c. to $2.50. Skate straps of all kinds constantly on hand. Fine cast steel skates. Maleable iron do. American skates, German & English skates. Also a full assortment of American, English & German hardware
Description: Display card containing a skating scene, possibly on the Schuylkill River. Shows dozens of persons in winter attire skating, as well as men pushing women in chairs with blades, and a man pulling a boy on a sled. Also shows a female peddler with her basket, a man fallen on the ice, and another adjusting his skates in the foreground across from a skating boy. In the background, a single span bridge spans the river near hill sides from which the top of an observation tower rises., Copyrighted by W.W. Knight & Son, & Co., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen - 9 prints/10 drawings/1 photo (A size) W.W. Knight
Date: c1860
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen - 9 prints/10 drawings/1 photo (A size) W.W. Knight

Title: Commissioners Hall, Northern Liberties, Phila
Description: Exterior winter view of the hall as it looked on February 22, 1852, with adjoining fenced property, adorned with an American flag, and containing the district's police station and Mayor's office, on the busy, snow covered Third Street between Buttonwood and Green streets. Several warmly dressed white pedestrians, hall officials, and a policeman mill about and converse on the sidewalk; white children throw snowballs and play with a sled; horse-drawn sleighs pass by; white men shovel snow off the street and hall steps; and an African American man carrying a basket of celery and a dead goose stops in the street and looks behind him and toward the passing sled. A broadside inscribed, "Washington, 22nd Feb. 1852" adorns a nearby building. Prior to the city's consolidation with bordering townships in 1854, neighborhoods maintained and housed their own police stations, mayors, and other government officials in Commissioners Halls, including Northern Liberties. Built in 1814, the Northern Liberties' hall served as the quarters of the Northern Liberty Barracks until the American Revolution, and was torn down circa 1869 for the erection of Northern Liberties Grammar School., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of an American city (Philadelphia: Camino Books in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990), p. 199. Incorrectly identified as Commissioners Hall, Spring Garden., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 151, Print described in Public Ledger, July 1, 1853., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Kuchel, Charles Conrad, 1820-, artist
Date: [1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W79 [P.2034]

Title: Commissioners Hall, Northern Liberties, Phila
Description: Exterior winter view of the hall as it looked on February 22, 1852, with adjoining fenced property, adorned with an American flag, and containing the district's police station and Mayor's office, on the busy, snow covered Third Street between Buttonwood and Green streets. Several warmly dressed white pedestrians, hall officials, and a policeman mill about and converse on the sidewalk; white children throw snowballs and play with a sled; horse-drawn sleighs pass by; white men shovel snow off the street and hall steps; and an African American man carrying a basket of celery and a dead goose stops in the street and looks behind him and toward the passing sled. A broadside inscribed, "Washington, 22nd Feb. 1852" adorns a nearby building. Prior to the city's consolidation with bordering townships in 1854, neighborhoods maintained and housed their own police stations, mayors, and other government officials in Commissioners Halls, including Northern Liberties. Built in 1814, the Northern Liberties' hall served as the quarters of the Northern Liberty Barracks until the American Revolution, and was torn down circa 1869 for the erection of Northern Liberties Grammar School., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of an American city (Philadelphia: Camino Books in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990), p. 199. Incorrectly identified as Commissioners Hall, Spring Garden., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 151, Print described in Public Ledger, July 1, 1853., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Kuchel, Charles Conrad, 1820-, artist
Date: [1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W79 [P.2034]

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