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[Street scene in Philadelphia, ca. 1807] – Vintage Photo Print

[Street scene in Philadelphia, ca. 1807] — historic photograph
[Street scene in Philadelphia, ca. 1807]. Historic photograph 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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[Street scene in Philadelphia, ca. 1807] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Street scene in Philadelphia, ca. 1807]

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The record dates this view of a Philadelphia street to about 1807, but its notes point to a date around 1932, so it may be a later photograph of an earlier scene or a reconstruction rather than a picture made at the time. Even so, it offers a glimpse of a city that had served as the nation's capital until 1800 and remained one of its largest and busiest ports. Streets of that era were often unpaved or cobbled, lined with brick and frame houses, and shared by pedestrians, carts and horses. Viewers should read the scene as an impression of the period rather than a documented record of a particular day.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1932.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,136 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119515

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