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Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer.
Contributor Knor, Jacob, builder.
Title The Chew mansion, Germantown [graphic] : Battle of Germantown fought October 4th 1777. Lieutt. Col. Musgrave threw himself with six companies of the 49th British regt. into Chew's house, which stood full in front of the main body of the Americans. Gen'l Reed was for pushing on immediately, this was opposed by Genl. Knox as against all military rule to leave an enemy in a fort in his rear, thus in attempting to induce the surrender of Lieut. Col. Musgrave, the precious moments were lost and gave Generals Gray, Grant and Agnew time to come up with a reinforcement. / Photograph taken in the Summer of 1856 by James E. McClees.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date Summer 1856
Physical Description 1 photograph : salted paper mounted on paper ; sheet 16 x 22 cm (6.25 x 8.75 in.)
Description Exterior view of the colonial residence built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. Shows the facade of the two-story stone building with a pediment over the front door, shuttered windows, and dormers and chimneys on the roof. Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Notes Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount.
Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: See pp. 43-83 opposite page and.
Contains several lines of text by Poulson describing the architecture of the house on the verso.
McClees 1856-7.
Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 41. 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.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
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 Chew, Benjamin, 1758-1844 -- Homes and haunts.
Cliveden of the National Trust (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Slavery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 6401.
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Knor, Jacob, builder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Residences - C [(3)2526.F.41]
Accession number (3)2526.F.41