Philadelphia: State House Row, Philadelphia (b/w photo)

State House Row, Philadelphia. At the right is Congress Hall, where met the First Congress and national law was first enacted. In the centre is Independence Hall, where the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted. At the left is old City Hall, where met the first United States Supreme Court. At the extreme left is the American Philosophical Society building, where is preserved William Penn's third and last "Charter of Privileges," 1701. The picture shows the scene before the great new Curtis Buildings were erected on Sixth Street. Illustration for Byways and Boulevards in and about Historic Philadelphia by Francis Burke Brandt and Henry Volkmar Gummere (Corn Exchange National Bank, 1925).