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[City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.] – Vintage Print

[City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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Two glass plates hold a single view of Philadelphia's City Hall, one showing the lower portion of the building and the other the upper, so the pair must be read together to see the whole façade. The building rose at Penn Square over roughly three decades beginning in 1871, and its tower is topped by a statue of William Penn, placed there in 1894. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sold many views of American cities around 1900, issued this view, and the plates reached the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift through the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket of A negative. Negative A is bottom portion of image; negative B is top portion. 319" on A negative; "319 B" on B negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033780. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCity & town halls.United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66948

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