Commissioners Hall, Northern Liberties, Phila., printed by P.S. Duval & Co., 1853 (hand-coloured litho tinted...

Exterior winter view of the hall as it looked on February 22, 1852, with fenced property, adorned with an American flag, and containing the district's police station and Mayor's office, on the busy snow covered Third Street between Buttonwood and Green streets. Several warmly dressed pedestrians, hall officals, and a policeman mill about and converse on the sidewalk; children throw snowballs and play with a sled; horse-drawn sleighs pass by; men shovel snow off the street and hall steps; and an African American man trudges passed carrying a basket of celery and a dead goose. A broadside ...