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[City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.: Tower] – Vintage Wall Art

[City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.: Tower], c1922. — historic photograph
[City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.: Tower], c1922.. 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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Rising above the intersection of Broad and Market Streets, the tower of Philadelphia's City Hall is the feature this view puts at the center. Architect John McArthur Jr. designed the building, which went up between 1871 and 1901, and its crown is a statue of William Penn, the city's founder, placed on the tower in 1894. The print dates from about 1922, when the building had long been a landmark of downtown, and its copyright line credits Rau Art Studios of Philadelphia.

Created / publishedc1922.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Rau Art Studios, Inc., Phila. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; City Hall; Ph. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,223 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156373

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