Congress Hall and New Theatre, in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia – Vintage Photo Print
(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 antique engraving captures Congress Hall and New Theatre, in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Congress Hall and New Theatre, in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
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Few buildings in the Birch series carry as much national history as Congress Hall, shown here beside the New theater on Chestnut Street. Philadelphia served as the federal capital in the 1790s, and Congress met in this building until the government moved to Washington in 1800, the same year this view was published. The engraving is by William Birch and Son, the father-and-son team who issued a set of views of the city, and the hand coloring was added by hand after printing. Its pairing of a seat of government with a fashionable theater shows how the street mixed public affairs and entertainment.
| Created / published | 1800 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving, hand-colored. |
| Subjects | Hand-colored engraving by Wm. Birch & Son. Illus. in: The City of Philadelphia...as It Appeared in the Year 1800..., 1800. Plate 20. Ref. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists, P.I.; Theatres; Street Vendors; RBD; Pa.--Phila.(4); Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,233 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110009 |
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