Congress Hall and New Theatre, in Chesnut Street Philadelphia

by William R. Birch, Thomas Birch

$2,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Plate 20 from the very rare first American colour-plate book, with views that are uniquely valuable among American historical prints Martin Snyder . Birch's view records one of the most charged civic settings in the early republic. Congress Hall appears at left, the building in which the United States Congress met from 1790 to 1800 while Philadelphia served as the temporary national capital. The House of Representatives met on the first floor and the Senate upstairs;

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