Subjects Street scene

Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, 1800

The Worry of the Wires

Gritty and the Phanatic in Ida’s Floodwaters

Fourth of July in Centre Square, John Lewis Krimmel, ca. 1812. The wooden statue in the fountain, “Allegory of the Schuylkill River (Water Nymph and Bittern)”, was carved in 1809 by Philadelphia sculptor William Rush.

Fourth of July, Centre Square, ca. 1812

Second Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street, Philadelphia

A section of wooden water pipe, long out of service, removed from a Philadelphia street in 1901. It had been installed about 1801.

Wooden Water Pipe, removed from Market Street, December 6, 1901

Goal (jail) in Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1800

Back of the State House, Philadelphia, 1800

Congress Hall and New Theatre in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Bank of the United States, in Third Street, Philadelphia

New Market, in South Second Street, Philadelphia, 1800

Old Lutheran Church in Fifth Street, Philadelphia