United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The State Penitentiary. It was built between 1823-1836 after the designs of the architect John Haviland (1792-1852) and opened in an unfinished state in 1829. Engraving by Traversier. Panorama Universal. History of the United States of America, from 1st edition of Jean Roux de Rochelle's Etats-Unis d'Amérique in 1837. Spanish edition, printed in Barcelona, 1850.

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