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Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Smith, Robert, 1722-1777, architect.
Title Carpenters' court and hall (in perspective), Chestnut St. bet. Third and Fourth St. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date May 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper mounted on paper; overall 32 x 20 cm. (12.5 x 7.75 in.); image 22 x 16 cm. 8.5 x 6 in.)
Description View from Chestnut Street looking south down Congress Place, a gated alley, toward Carpenters' Hall. Contains partial views of businesses adjoining the alley including a portion of the window display for Montgomery Hart & Co., wallpaper, and advertising broadsides for ships displayed in front of Adams Express Company, a private mail service. The Hall, built between 1770 and 1774 after designs by member Robert Smith.
Notes Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount.
Date inscribed on photograph.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
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Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 11, page 89. 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. unknown volume, page 89.
Reproduced in Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976), entry #314b.
Subject Carpenters' Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Guildhalls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 320-322.
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Smith, Robert, 1722-1777, architect.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards - Organizations - C [2526.F.89]
Accession number 2526.F.89