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The House, intended for the President of the United States, in Ninth Street, Philadelphia – Historic Photograph Print

The House, intended for the President of the United States, in Ninth Street, Philadelphia, 1800 — antique engraving
The House, intended for the President of the United States, in Ninth Street, Philadelphia, 1800. Antique engraving from the Philadelphia collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with The House, intended for the President of the United States, in Ninth Street, Philadelphia, an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Unlike the city views on this board, this engraving shows a single house: a residence intended for the President of the United States on Ninth Street. Philadelphia was the seat of the federal government from 1790 until Congress moved to Washington in 1800, so the house was planned for a period when the presidency was based in the city. William Birch & Son issued the plate as number 13 in their 1800 series of engraved views, *The City of Philadelphia... as It Appeared in the Year 1800*. The hand coloring adds a record of how the street and its buildings looked at the turn of the century.

Created / published1800
Medium1 print : engraving, hand-colored.
SubjectsHand-colored engraving by Wm. Birch & Son. Illus. in: The City of Philadelphia...as It Appeared in the Year 1800..., 1800. Plate 13. Ref. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pa.--Phila.(3); Artists, Publ. Ind.; RBD; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,197 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110005

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