Details
Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title Jefferson House, so. west corner of Seventh and Market st. [graphic] / Photograph by McClees
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date 1855
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen mounted on paper; 8 x7 cm.(3 x 2.5 in.)
Description View showing the house owned by Jacob Graff in which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Signage adorns the building advertising current tenants William Brown, clothing, and D.E. Thompson's Book and Job Printing Office. Also shows an awning reading "Birth Place of Liberty" attached to the building; playbills on display; a hitching post; and a view of the adjacent business, William Jordan's Shoe Warehouse at 232 Market Street. The building was razed circa 1883.
Notes Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount.
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 92? 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 #59.
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 Brown, William.
Thompson, D.E.
Graff, Jacob -- Homes and haunts.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Homes and haunts.
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hitching posts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Residences - G [P.2295]
Accession number P.2295