Details
Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title The Butler Mansion, N.W. corner of Chestnut & Eighth Sts. [graphic].
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 the first floor and the brick wall of the dwelling covered in broadsides. Also shows a book vendor's stand installed in front of the property. 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 and date from transcription of original Poulson inscription.
McClees 1856-2.
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 44. 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.
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.
Broadsides -- 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.49]
Accession number (5)2526.F.49