Item Info
Item No: pdch00051
Title: Site of the new County Prison
Historic Street Address:
Meeting House & Townsend Roads
Media Type: Glass Plate Negatives
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
Image taken by Philadelphia Evening Bulletin photographer Charles T. Higgins. Notes on the negative's envelope read: "Site for the new county prison, Nov. 1931"
According to Temple University Digital Collections, this 1931 photograph shows a prospective site for a new county prison, which would "take the place of Moyamensing Prison, to become a house of detention for untried prisoners." The proposed location for this new prison was in northeast Philadelphia, near the intersection of Meeting House & Townsend Roads. There's no information that the prison was ever built.
Creation Year: 1931
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-74.969576
Geocode Latitude:40.113224
Creator Name: Higgins, Charles - Photographer