Street scene depicting the bustling southeast corner of third and market streets. Several vendors, mostly women, sell meat and produce from their simple stands baskets to the numerous customers milling on market street, including two african american women in kerchieves and shawls. View includes the commercial business block erected in 1792 by prosperous jeweler and developer joseph cooke, known as "cooke's folly. " the lavish building, containing residences and stores to be won as lottery prizes, was demolished in 1838 after several years of decay from lack of investment. P-2276-14. Drawn, engraved & published by w. Birch & son. 1799. Link to record on impac, the library company’s digital collections catalog: http://lcpdams. Librarycompany. Org:8881/r/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=127684&silo_library=gen01.
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