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Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Hamilton, Andrew, ca. 1676-1741, architect.
Woolley, Edmund, ca. 1695-1771, architect.
Title Independence Hall or State House, from the N.E. across the ruins made by the great fire N.W. corner of Chestnut & Fifth St. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date Spring 1856
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen mounted on paper; 23 x 18 cm.(9 x 7 in.)
Description View looking northeast showing the State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street. In the foreground, a partial view of the fire ruins from the expansive fire of the Artisan Building near Fourth and Chestnut streets on April 11th, 1856 is visible. Shows the exposed side of a damaged building adorned with broadsides.
Notes Title from transcribed scrapbook inscription.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Probably 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 30. 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 #76.
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 Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fires -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 520.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Hamilton, Andrew, ca. 1676-1741, architect.
Associated name Woolley, Edmund, ca. 1695-1771, architect.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Government Buildings [8339.F.31]
Accession number 8339.F.31