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[Entrance to Independence Square, Philadelphia] – Historic Photograph Print

[Entrance to Independence Square, Philadelphia], [between 1840 and 1856] — historic photograph
[Entrance to Independence Square, Philadelphia], [between 1840 and 1856]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography 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 historic photograph captures [Entrance to Independence Square, 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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[Entrance to Independence Square, Philadelphia]

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A mirror-image daguerreotype of the southwest entrance to Independence Square in Philadelphia, the grounds beside the State House where the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776. Made sometime between 1840 and 1856, it shows two men identified in the record as James Peale and Augustus Runyon Peale, members of the Philadelphia family of painters and museum keepers founded by Charles Willson Peale. Because daguerreotypes reverse the scene, the entrance appears flipped from how passersby saw it. Early views of the square like this one are prized as records of its appearance in the 1840s and 1850s.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1856]
Medium1 photograph : approximate sixth-plate daguerreotype.
Genreson of the noted artist of same name and nephew of Charles Willson Peale. The other Augustus Runyon Peale. Photographed Sept. 10
NotesFramed. Accompanying labels on cover glass: 28" and "12." Label from back: Daguerreotypes are "mirror reflections" and thus show the ac... picture in reverse. This picture is the South West entrance to Independence Square - The men shown are James Peale
SubjectsPeale, Augustus Runyon,--1819-1856. Peale, James,--1789-1876. Parks--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1840-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,169 × 4,114 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference183_Entrance_to_Independenc_1840

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