Caption:
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 B.G. Roux de Rochelle's Etats-Unis d'AmŽrique in 1837. Spanish edition, printed in Barcelona, 1850.