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Second Street North from Market St. with Christ Church - Philadelphia – Historic Photo Reproduction

Second Street North from Market St. with Christ Church - Philadelphia, 1800 — antique engraving
Second Street North from Market St. with Christ Church - 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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This rare antique engraving captures Second Street North from Market St. with Christ Church - Philadelphia in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Second Street North from Market St. with Christ Church - Philadelphia

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Looking north up Second Street from Market Street, this hand-colored engraving places the steeple of Christ Church at the end of the vista, a landmark that remains one of Philadelphia's most recognizable old buildings. The view comes from William Birch and Son's 1800 series of city views, engraved plates that recorded the city's streets at the turn of the nineteenth century. Birch's work was valued for its careful attention to architecture, which makes the scene useful to historians of the period. The church dates to the 1720s and 1730s, so it had already stood for decades when the plate was made.

Created / published1800
Medium1 print : engraving, hand-colored.
NotesHand-colored engraving by Wm. Birch & Son. Illus. in: The City of Philadelphia...as It Appeared in the Year 1800..., 1800. Plate 15. Ref. Hist. Print Coll. - A size (restrike). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 99.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,211 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110006

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