Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title The dwelling-place of the Annalist. [graphic] : This house is situated on Price St. was built by, and now occupied by the venerable and respected and esteemed John F. Watson, in Germantown. Of it he thus writes, "if sufficiently curious - is the house of J.F.W. the annalist, being the first built house in Price Street, now occupied some twelve years. This was about the centre of an old apple orchard of the Revolution, where there was much fighting, and many were killed and wounded" / Photograph by Richards.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date April 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper mounted on paper; 15 x 20 cm.(6 x 7.75 in.)
Description Shows the residence built circa 1847 for the local historian and author of "Annals of Philadelphia," John Fanning Watson. View includes a boy seated in front of a picket fence.
Notes Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount.
Date inscribed on photograph.
Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: Mr. Watson will be eighty years old in June 1859.
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 73. 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.6).
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860 -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Price Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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 - W [(3)2526.F.73 (Poulson)]
Accession number (3)2526.F.73 (Poulson)