News-Post and Baltimore American

Description

Photograph of Cornhill (left) and Fleet (right) Streets from Market Space in Annapolis, Maryland. On both sides of these stone-embedded streets are Revolutionary era two-story clapboard row houses. At their intersection is a small (perhaps whitewashed) brick building believed to be Caton's Barber Shop, where in 1783 General George Washington received a shave before resigning his military commission. Electric poles can be seen on the left side of Cornhill but not on Fleet Street. In the left foreground is a wooden barrel filled with what appears to be sand. A lone chicken or rooster is making its way up the middle of Cornhill toward the Maryland State House, the tall domed building at the end of the Cornhill. The State House, built in 1772, served as the meeting place for the Continental Congress from 1773 to 1774. On both Cornhill and Fleet Streets are several African American men and women either walking along the sidewalks or sitting on the front steps of a house. In the right foreground are two African American children playing with what appears to be an empty barrel. At the far end of Fleet Street is a horse pulling a wagon with its driver. On the lower right side of the picture is a white spot indicating a damaged area.

Record Contributed By

Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center

Record Harvested From

Digital Maryland