Gaol, in Walnut Street, Philadelphiadelphia

Print showing a 10-horse team moving wooden building mounted on wheels. The two-story structure being moved was a former blacksmith shop that was purchased by the Rev. Richard Allen, who moved it to Sixth and Lombard Streets, where it became the first home of the Bethel African Methodist Church. (Information from ExplorePAhistory.com).
Hand-colored engraving by Wm. Birch & Son.
Illus. in: The City of Philadelphia...as It Appeared in the Year 1800..., 1800. Plate 24.
Ref. copy in LOT 4384-N.
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Caption card tracings: Prisons; Artists, P.I.; RBD; Pa. Phila.(3); Shelf.