Dr. Staughtons, or Sansom St. Baptist church. Sansom south side east of Ninth Street, as viewed from the northwest, across the foundation walls of the new hotel on the s.e. corner of Chestnut and Ninth Street. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.

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Creator	Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer.
Contributor	McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
	Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
	Mills, Robert, 1781-1855, architect.
Title	Dr. Staughtons, or Sansom St. Baptist church. Sansom south side east of Ninth Street, as viewed from the northwest, across the foundation walls of the new hotel on the s.e. corner of Chestnut and Ninth Street. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Publisher	PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date	March 1858
Physical Description	2 photographic prints: salted paper mounted on paper; 15 x 19 cm.(6 x 7.5 in.) or smaller.
Description	View showing the Baptist church organized by Dr. William Staughton built 1811-1812 after the designs of Robert Mills on the 800 block of Sansom Street. Also shows two men standing in front of the church, the adjacent auction house, "Herkness Bazaar, horses, carriages, harnesses &c" (s.e. cor. 9th and Sansom), and the foundation for the Continental Hotel (built 1857-1860). Church reorganized as the Fifth Baptist Church in 1824.
Notes	Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount.
	Date inscribed on photograph.
	One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
	One of the images 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 117. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape.
	See J. Thomas Scharff's and Thompson Westcott's History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884), vol. 2, p. 1309-1310 for the history of the church.
	Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject	Alfred M. Herkness & Co.
	Fifth Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
	Sansom Street Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
	Baptist churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Auctioneers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Horses -- Equipment and supplies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject	Sansom Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 800 block.
Genre	Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name	Mills, Robert, 1781-1855, architect.
Provenance	McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
	Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location	Library Company of Philadelphia\| Print Department\| photo - Richards - Churches and Meetinghouses - S [(4)1322.F.47e; (3)2526.F.117 (Poulson)]
Accession number	(3)2526.F.117
	(4)1322.F.47e

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