Arch Street, with the Second Presbyterian Church. Philadelphia – Antique 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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Arch Street, with the Second Presbyterian Church. Philadelphia comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Arch Street, with the Second Presbyterian Church. Philadelphia
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The view of Arch Street and the Second Presbyterian Church is a hand-colored engraving by William Birch and Son, published as plate 5 in *The City of Philadelphia... as It Appeared in the Year 1800*. Birch, an English-born engraver who had settled in Philadelphia, made a series of street views that documented the city's buildings and daily life at a time when Philadelphia was still the nation's capital. The year of publication was also the one in which the federal government moved to Washington. The print offers a close look at a major city street and the brick and stone architecture that lined it.
| 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 5. Ref. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pa.--Phila.--Churches; Pa.--Phila.--Streets; Pa.--Phila.--1800; Artists, Publ. Index; RBDiv.; Churches; Shelf (2). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,480 × 1,249 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176066 |
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