Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title Christopher Sower's house - [graphic] : And printing office. Mr. Watson, in his letter writes: "The house of Sower the printer, and earliest Bible publisher in our country, and also of an early German newspaper - See facts in Annals. The house stands vis a vis Indian Queen Street, next Wister's." My grandfather Zachariah Poulson, the 1st, was a pupil of Christopher Sower, and here taught the "art and mystery of Printing" / Photograph by Richards.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date April 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper mounted on paper; 14 x 21 cm.(5.5 x 8.25 in.)
Description Street view showing the residence of Sower and his son at 5253-5263 Germantown Avenue. Includes adjacent residences, a wood-plank fence, and a partial view of a horse-drawn carriage. House was demolished circa 1862 by Owen J. Wister. Wister built a new residence on the property set back from the street.
Notes Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount.
Date inscribed on photograph.
Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: See p. 80.
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 81. 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.
Also included in an annotated album containing twenty photographs by Richards entitled "Pictorial Views of Houses & Places in Germantown yr 1859." (LCP 66037.D.15).
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Sower, Christopher, 1695-1758 -- Homes and haunts.
Sower, Christopher, 1721-1784 -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 5253-5263.
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards - Germantown - S [(3)2526.F.81 (Poulson)]
Accession number (3)2526.F.81 (Poulson)