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The Butler Mansion house, N.W. cor. Chestnut & Eighth St. After the posters were removed. [graphic] / Taken by McClees in the spring of 1856.
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Creator
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer.
Contributor
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title
The Butler Mansion house, N.W. cor. Chestnut & Eighth St. After the posters were removed. [graphic] / Taken by McClees in the spring of 1856.
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date
Spring 1856
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen; 24 x 18 cm.(9.5 x 7 in.)
Description
Exterior view of the former residence of Senator Pierce Butler built circa 1794 at 801-807 Chestnut. Shows a book vendor's stand installed in front of the property near a boy sitting on a crate. Butler purchased the residence circa 1804 and resided in the dwelling until his death in 1822. The building remained in the Butler family as the boarding house, "Butler House," before its sale circa 1856 by Butler's grandson, Pierce Butler. Building razed 1857 for the storefront of Sharpless dry goods.
Notes
Title from Poulson inscription on accompanying label.
McClees 1856-3.
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 45. 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.
Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #127.
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
Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822 -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lodging houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Street vendors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 801-807.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Residences - B [(5)2526.F.5a]
Accession number
(5)2526.F.5a
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