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Interior view of Independence Hall, Philadelphia – Historic Photo Reproduction

Interior view of Independence Hall, Philadelphia, c1856 Nov. 28. — historic print
Interior view of Independence Hall, Philadelphia, c1856 Nov. 28.. Historic print 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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A window into the past: Interior view of Independence Hall, Philadelphia, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Interior view of Independence Hall, Philadelphia

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The room pictured is most likely the Assembly Room on the first floor of Independence Hall, where the Second Continental Congress met and where delegates approved the Declaration of Independence in July 1776. The building, begun in 1732 as the Pennsylvania State House, also hosted the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The date on this print comes from an older catalog card and has not been confirmed, but the view shows the hall as it appeared in the mid-nineteenth century, well before the twentieth-century restoration work that returned its rooms to their colonial appearance.

Created / publishedc1856 Nov. 28.
Medium1 print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Rosenthal, L.N.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109794

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