This hand-colored lithograph from 1853 shows an exterior view of the hall containing the police station for the district and the office of the mayor, located on a busy snow-covered Third Street between Buttonwoodand Green Streets in Philadelphia. The hall has fenced property, and is adorned with an American flag. Several warmly-dressed pedestrians, hall officials, and a policeman mill about and converse on the sidewalk;children throw snowballs and play with a sled; horse-drawn sleighs pass; men shovel snow off the street and hall steps; and an African American man trudges past carrying a basket of celery and a dead goose. Abroadside inscribed, "Washington, 22nd Feb. 1852" adorns a nearby building. Prior to the 1854 consolidation of the city with bordering townships, neighborhoods maintained and housed their own police stations, mayors, and other government officials in commissioners' halls, including this one in the Northern Liberties neighborhood. Built in 1814, this hall served as the quarters of the Northern Liberties Barracks until the American

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