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View of the toll-house, Superintendents residence, and part of Schuylkill Canal, &c. on the W. side of River Schuylkill, opposite Fairmount [graphic].
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James McClees Philadelphia Photograph Collection
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Creator
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer.
Contributor
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title
View of the toll-house, Superintendents residence, and part of Schuylkill Canal, &c. on the W. side of River Schuylkill, opposite Fairmount [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date
1855
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen; 18 x 24 cm.(7 x 9.5 in.)
Description
Shows the buildings at the base of a tree-lined hillside near the canal in the foreground. Additional buildings are visible in the background. Schuylkill Navigation Company was incorporated in 1815 to create a navigational waterway on the Schuylkill River between Port Carbon and Philadelphia to transport coal. The canal was completed in 1828.
Notes
Title and date from Poulson inscription on accompanying label.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 55? The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #210.
Biographical / historical note
McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Subject
Schuylkill Navigation Company -- Buildings.
Canals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tollhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Transportation [(5)2526.F.15b]
Accession number
(5)2526.F.15b
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James McClees Philadelphia Photograph Collection
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