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Second Street North from Market St. with Christ Church - Philadelphia – Antique Photo Print

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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Second Street North from Market St. with Christ Church - Philadelphia comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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

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Christ Church, with its tall steeple, anchors this view looking up Second Street from Market Street in Philadelphia. William Birch & Son issued the hand-colored engraving in 1800 as plate 15 of *The City of Philadelphia... as It Appeared in the Year 1800*, a series meant to record the city's streets and buildings at the turn of the century. Christ Church, built in the 1720s and 1730s, was among the city's most prominent Anglican churches, and Benjamin Franklin is buried in its churchyard. The street scene shows the brick rowhouses and busy commercial life of the early federal city.

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 × 1,375 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132263

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