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The Willing Mansion house, as it appeared Aug. 30, 1856. [graphic] : The three buildings in the view on the south, occupy the site of a part of the garden of the Mansion. They were built in the year.
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Creator
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer.
Contributor
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title
The Willing Mansion house, as it appeared Aug. 30, 1856. [graphic] : The three buildings in the view on the south, occupy the site of a part of the garden of the Mansion. They were built in the year.
Publisher
[August 30, 1856]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen; 22 x 17 cm. (8.75 x 6.75 in.)
Description
Shows the residence of merchant and Philadelphia mayor Charles Willing built in the mid 18th century at 226-228 South Third Street. View includes adjacent buildings, including one adorned with ironwork railings. Also shows the over 100 year old tree dead in the foreground.
Notes
Title from Poulson inscription on accompanying label.
Manuscript note by Poulson on accompanying label: The tree was planted in 1749; This building was removed in Sept. 56; See p. 64.
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 53. 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.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
McClees 1856-11.
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
Willing, Charles, 1710-1754 -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 226-228.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Residences - W [(5)2526.F.15a]
Accession number
(5)2526.F.15a
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James McClees Philadelphia Photograph Collection
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