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High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church - Philadelphia – Vintage Photo Print

High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church - Philadelphia, 1800 — antique engraving
High Street, with the First Presbyterian 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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High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church - Philadelphia

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Few street views of early Philadelphia are as directly tied to a single place as this one, which shows High Street with the First Presbyterian Church. The engraving was made by William Birch and Son and issued as Plate 9 in *The City of Philadelphia... as It Appeared in the Year 1800*, a series that recorded the city's streets, public buildings, and churches at the turn of the nineteenth century. Birch, an English-born artist who worked in Philadelphia, was known for these carefully detailed views, which are valued today as a record of how the city looked before rapid growth changed its skyline. The hand coloring adds a sense of the everyday scene, with its brick buildings and busy roadway.

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 9. Ref. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Churhces; Pa.--Phila.(3); Artists, Publ. Ind.; RBD; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,204 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110003

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