Details
Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title Central High School house, Broad Street. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date ca. 1856
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen; 24 x 18 cm.(9.5 x 7 in.)
Description View looking northeast showing the second building of the Central High School for Boys (established 1838), the first public high school in the city, built 1853 at North Broad and Green streets. Also shows adjacent buildings and several large pipe sections in the street in the foreground. Building housed the school until 1900.
Notes Title from accompanying label.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook.
Trimmed.
McClees 1856-8.
Subject Central High School (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Buildings.
High schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- at Green Street.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Education [(5)2526.F.14b]
Accession number (2)2526.F.14b