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Goal, in Walnut Street Philadelphia

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W. Birch & Son

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Active street scene at Sixth and Walnut streets with a view of the Walnut Street Jail, completed in 1776, after the designs of Philadelphia architect Robert Smith. Depicts several individuals, including a child, lining Sixth Street witnessing a large wood shed on wheels, possibly the first edifice of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, being moved by a team of horses. A dog runs in the street and another sits next to a spectator in the right foreground. The prison closed and was razed in 1835, the prisoners relocated to Moyamensing Prison. The first edifice of Bethel Church, a former blacksmith shop, was transported to Sixth and Lombard streets.; Drawn & engraved by W. Birch & Son.

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The Library Company of Philadelphia

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Keywords

  1. African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
  2. Buildings
  3. Dogs
  4. Moving Of Structures
  5. Pennsylvania
  6. Philadelphia
  7. Prisons
  8. Spectators
  9. Streets
  10. Walnut Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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