Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [Auburn, residence of John McAllister Sr., Old Front St. Road, Philadelphia, Pa.] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date March 1860
Physical Description 2 photographic prints: salted paper; 23 x 19 cm. (9 x 7.5 in.)
Description View also includes four men seated and standing on the front porch of the country home.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Date inscribed on photographs.
Manuscript note below cyanotype copy photograph in scrapbook compiled by McAllister's grandson William Y. McAllister in February 1894 reads: Auburn and my horse Jenny. Auburn was a property of Ten Acres on the Old Front St. road bought by Grandfather about 1798 to avoid the yellow fevers - on it he built a Stonehouse - a workshop and horse mill and a factory and other buildings - the property is now nearly as he left it - He died in 1830 and it was sold for about 1/3d of its cost. The streets are not yet run through it but when they are the house will be about F & Tioga St..... [P.2003.28. 51].
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
See reference to photograph in John McAllister letter to C.A Poulson, March 27, 1860 in the C.A. Poulson Autograph Collection, LCP Manuscript Collections.
Subject McAllister, John, 1753-1830 -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Front Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- at Tioga Street.
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards - Residences - McAllister [(6)1322.F.30 & 173a]
Accession number (6)1322.F.30
(6)1322.F.173a