2-982-137 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Philadelphia Sketches: in the Belfry, Independence Hall, by one of our special artists, 1876. 'Independence Hall, in Chestnut-street, and Carpenters' Hall, the meeting-place of the first Continental Congress, are preserved with careful veneration by the citizens of the Great Republic...The bell of the old State House, with other relics of historical interest, is kept in Independence Hall; but that which may now be heard sounding on festive occasions is not, we believe, the same bell that in 1776 called the citizens together at the proclamation of Independence'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.