North view of Philadelphia from the State House steeple – Vintage Photo Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of North view of Philadelphia from the State House steeple. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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North view of Philadelphia from the State House steeple
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Taken from the steeple of the State House, the building now known as Independence Hall, this 1850 view looks north over Philadelphia's rooftops. It is a talbotype, an early paper-based photographic process developed by the English inventor William Henry Fox Talbot, and it was printed as a photoprint from the negative. The Langenheim brothers, Philadelphia photographers who helped introduce the process in the United States, made it. Because the image is a high vantage point over a growing city in the decade before the great photographic boom, it is a useful record of the city's streets and buildings at that time.
| Created / published | 1850 June. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint of talbotype by W. & E. Langenheim, June 1850. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,238 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108193 |
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