Front:
The COMPANY
1724
INSTITUTED
CARPENTERS HALL
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Published by United News Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
CARPENTER'S HALL
Philadelphia, Pa.
Built originally as a home for the Carpenter's Com-
pany of the City and County of. Philadelphia. Car-
penter's Hall is famed as the meeting place of the
First Continental Congress, which began in 1774,
shortly before arrival of word of the cannonading
of Boston by the British. It was used as a storehouse
and hospital during the British occupation of Phila-
delphia. The First and Second Banks of the United
States later did business within its walls.
by COLOURPICTURE PUBLISHERS, INC., Boston 15, Mass., U.S.A.
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