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English: Watercolor: "Friends Meeting House, S.W. Corner 2nd & High Sts.," Philadelphia.
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Source Russell Frank Weigley, Philadelphia: A 300 Year History (W. W. Norton & Company, 1982).
Author William L. Breton (c.1773–1855)

"The Old Court House, erected twenty-five years after the founding of the city, stood in the middle of Market Street [until 1837], and with this he [Breton] combined in one drawing the Friends' Meeting House, which had been removed years earlier from the adjacent corner."[1]

  1. Martin P. Synder, "William L. Breton, Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Artist," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, volume 85, number 2 (April 1961), (Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1961), pp. 186.

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