Castner Scrapbook v.4, Old Houses 1, page 35

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Castner Scrapbook v.4, Old Houses 1, page 35

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Item No: pdcc02015
Title: Castner Scrapbook v.4, Old Houses 1, page 35
Historic Street Address: 7th & Market Streets
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

Item pdcc00269, top right [image dimensions 12.0 cm x 15.0 cm]:

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/graff.htm

Caption reads: The old building on the corner of Seventh and Market Streets, in which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, to be demolished. (From a sketch by our special artist.) The original structure, which was built in 1775, was demolished in 1883, and rebuilt in 1975 from photographs by architect Jacob Graff.

Building demolished: YES 1883


Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.152382
Geocode Latitude:39.950689

Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.4
Creator Name: Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Graff, Jacob