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An Unfinished House, in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia – Historic Photograph Print

An Unfinished House, in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 1800 — antique engraving
An Unfinished House, in Chestnut 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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An Unfinished House, in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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An Unfinished House, in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

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Few views in William Birch's 1800 series of Philadelphia engravings show a building still under construction, which makes this plate of an unfinished house on Chestnut Street stand out. Birch and his son Thomas published the set as a record of the city at the turn of the century, and this print was hand-colored after engraving. Chestnut Street was one of Philadelphia's main thoroughfares, and the bare framing of the house offers a glimpse of the building work that accompanied the city's growth in those years.

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 14. Ref. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; Artists, Publ. Ind.; Pa.--Phila.(2); Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,525 × 1,232 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176075

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