A Hand-book for the Stranger in Philadelphia: Containing Descriptions of All the Objects of Interest in the City and Its Environs; with Views of the Public BuildingsGeorge S. Appleton, 1849 - 113 |
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00 Daily 104 Race st 164 CHESTNUT STREET 25 cents 25 Daily 66 Daily 95 North Second A.M. ex APPLETON Arch st ARCH STREET Arnold's ASYLUM Bank beautiful Black Horse Tavern Blockley almshouse Bordentown bridge Broad st Broad street built cells cemetery Chestnut st church commenced contains corner Delaware Eighth and Market Eleventh and Market entablature erected FAIRMOUNT WATER Fifth Fort Mercer Fourth Frankford FRANKLIN INSTITUTE front German GIRARD COLLEGE Gray's ferry Green sts HALL History Holmesburg Hotel House institution Laurel Hill marble neat Ninth and Green North Second st Northern Liberties occupied P.M. Daily passenger Penitentiary Penn PENNSYLVANIA PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL Pine street place east place west portico prison rector rooms Schuylkill Navigation Company Second street Seventh street Sixth street Spring Garden Spruce square Strangers style SWAIM'S BUILDINGS Third street Thur village vols Walnut st Walnut street west of Broad western wharf
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Strona 52 - ... conversing from one door to another, and defeat in a great measure the object of solitary confinement. " A hollow cone of cast iron is fixed securely in the wall, with its apex next the passage, from which small aperture, of one-fourth of an inch in diameter, you can command a view of the cell unobserved by the prisoner: a stopper is slid over this peep-hole, and fixed on the outside, so that no person can make use of it but the superintendent. The door of the entrance is next the yard, properly...
Strona 52 - The drawer is of cast iron, six inches deep and sixteen wide, projecting a sufficient depth into the cell, to form, when closed, a table of twelve inches from the surface of the wall on the inside, from which the prisoner will eat his meals. This drawer on the back is intended to be made with a stop, that, when drawn out by the keeper in the passage, for the purpose of depositing food or raiment, closes the aperture behind, and consequently prevents the prisoner seeing the superintendent, or receiving...
Strona 47 - COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS. THE MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE is a magnificent, building, fronting on Walnut, Dock, and Third Streets. It is constructed of the purest Pennsylvania marble, from a design of W. STRICKLAND, Esq. It forms a parallelogram, the eastern front being circular, embellished with a portico recessed, supported by Corinthian columns, standing on a basement, which being richly ornamented with sculpture, gives a stately air to the building as viewed from Dock Street. It is three stories high,...
Strona 2 - In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PREFACE. THE following treatise has been written in the hope that it may supply, in some degree, a real want.
Strona 50 - The exterior wall is estimated at thirty feet high from the level of the ground on the inside, and covered with an inclined coping, that projects on the inside four feet, and will frustrate any attempt to climb over it. This wall encloses an area of 650 feet square, in which the cells are disposed.
Strona 50 - ... those blocks, a watchman can, from one point, command a view of the extremity of the passages of the cells, or traverse under cover, unobserved by the prisoners, and overlook every cell. When they are exercising in their yards, the same watchman...
Strona 51 - ... another; this glass is hung up at the apex of a cast iron cone that is securely fixed in the solid masonry of the ceiling, and would be found a cheap and excellent window. A simple bed is provided, that is proposed to be hung against the wall to which it is made to button in the day time, with the bedding enclosed in it, out of the way. It will be understood that the wall next...