Details
Creator McClees & Germon photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [Graff House, southwest corner of Seventh and Market streets, Philadelphia] [graphic] / McClees & Germon patent crystalotype 160 Chestnut St. Philada.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1854
Date ca. 1854
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen mounted on paper; 31 x 29 cm.(12.25 x 11.5 in.)
Description View showing the house owned by Jacob Graff in which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Signage covers the building advertising current tenants, including B. Crawford's wholesale retail fashionable clothing emporium; William Hicks, tailor; William Brown, clothing; and D.E. Thompson's Book and Job Printing Office. Also shows adjacent businesses, including William Jordan's Shoe Warehouse at 232 Market Street(pre-consolidation). The building was razed circa 1883.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount.
Manuscript note on mount: S.W. Cor. 7th and Market.
Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
*McClees 1853-2.
Biographical / historical note McClees & Germon, a partnership between Philadelphia photographers James E. McClees and Washington Lafayette Germon, was active between 1854-1855.
Subject Brown, William.
Crawford, B.
Hicks, William.
Thompson, D.E.
Graff, Jacob -- Homes and haunts.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Homes and haunts.
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tailor shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700 block.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *photo - McClees [8339.F.17]
Accession number 8339.F.17