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Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title Northwest corner of Carpenter and Sixth street, north of Chestnut Street. [graphic] : Gray's brewery building is partially seen on the right of the picture. Where the "sign" is now, was, in my remembrance a picture full length of Sir John Falstaff, as represented in the Chestnut Street Theatre by William Warren, the manager. / Photograph by Richards.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1857
Date June 1857
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper mounted on paper; 20 x 15 cm.(7.75 x 6 in.)
Description View showing the Falstaff Hotel, formerly the Washington Tavern, established in 1790 on Sixth and Carpenter (i.e. Jayne) streets between Market and Chestnut streets. Hotel renamed in reference to a sign designed by John Archibald Woodside depicting actor William Warren (hotel owner) in the character of Falstaff adorning the inn in the 1820s-1830s. Inn used for legal proceedings and as a meeting-space for societies. Also shows a partial view of the adjacent Gray's Brewery (24 S. Sixth). Brewery operated by Gray family 1772-1866, including George W. Gray who served as proprietor 1850-1866.
Notes Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount.
Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 2, page 41. 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
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1980), entry # 72.
See J. Thomas Scharff's and Thompson Westcott's History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884), vol. 2, p. 984 for history of hotel.
See J. Thomas Scharff's and Thompson Westcott's History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884), vol. 3, p. 2278-2279 for history of brewery.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
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Reaccessioned as 8339.F.40.
Subject Gray, George W.
Falstaff Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Breweries -- 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 - Richards - Hotels, Inns, Taverns - F [(2)2526.F.41(Poulson)]
Accession number (2)2526.F.41b(Poulson)