Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer.
Title Chew's house, Germantown. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date April 1859
Physical Description 1 photograph : salted paper ; sheet 17 x 21 cm (6.75 x 8.25 in.)
Description Exterior view of the colonial residence built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. View includes the west wing of the estate house and the cherry tree rumored to stand near the interred bodies of Revolutionary War soldiers. Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Notes Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount.
Date inscribed on photograph.
Inscription by Poulson on mount: See pp. 41-43, 40.
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 83. 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.3).
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Chew, Benjamin, 1758-1844 -- Homes and haunts.
Cliveden of the National Trust (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Slavery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 6401.
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Knor, Jacob, builder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards - Germantown - C [(3)2526.F.83 (Poulson)]
Accession number (3)2526.F.83 (Poulson)