Details
Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title View of the ruins caused by the great fire northeast corner of Sixth and Market st. which began on the night of Weds. April 30, 1856 - From the northwest. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date 1856
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper; 18 x 24 cm.(7 x 9.5 in.)
Description Shows burnt ruins and fire debris lining Sixth Street above Market from the fire begun in the rag and paper warehouse of Jessup & Moore on North Street below Arch. Includes a line of men standing on debris and Independence Hall in the background. The fire razed forty-four buildings, which caused a loss of half of a million dollars.
Notes Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on accompanying label.
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 77. 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.
McClees 1856-5.
See clippings in Poulson scrapbook "Illustrations of Philadelphia," vol. 5, p .21.
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 Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fires -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Sixth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 000 block.
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Fires and firefighting [(5)2526.F.9a]
Accession number (5)2526.F.9a