Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Smith, Robert, 1722-1777, architect.
Title German Lutheran school house. Next to the N.E. corner of Cherry and Fourth St. on Cherry Street. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date May 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper; 21 x 19 cm.(8.25 x 7.5 in.)
Description View looking northeast from above Third Street showing the former school house, known as the Zion Lutheran School, built in 1761 after the designs of Robert Smith, at 325-7 Cherry Street. Building tenanted by Joseph Wrigley's hotel and tavern. Also shows the adjacent G. Goebel's Hotel and Lager Beer Saloon (N.E. cor. 4th and Cherry). Two men, including a peddler with a basket, lean on the hotel signpost in the foreground. The school built by the Zion Lutheran Church also served as a parish hall and as the meeting place of the German Society.
Notes Title and date from duplicate.
Attributed to F. De B. Richards.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 103.
Arcadia caption text: The congregation of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church commissioned prominent Philadelphia architect-builder Robert Smith to construct this school house at 325 Cherry Street. Completed in 1761, the building faced some disapproval from the reverend because of its cost. Nonetheless, the Zion Lutheran School, as it became known, provided a meeting space for the German Society of Pennsylvania, a parish hall for the Zion Lutheran Church across the street, and room for classes. Antiquarian Charles Poulson’s note on this 1859 photograph mentions that the center window on the first floor was originally a front door.
Biographical / historical note Richards, Philadelphia painter, etcher, and photographer produced some of the earliest successful paper photographic prints in the city, including photographs commissioned by local historian Charles Poulson to document Philadelphia.
Subject Wrigley, Joseph.
Goebel, George.
Zion Lutheran School.
Zion--St. Michael's Lutheran Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Buildings.
German Society at Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania -- Buildings.
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
German Americans -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Taverns (Inns) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Peddlers and peddling -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Cherry Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 300 block.
Cherry Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 325-7.
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Smith, Robert, 1722-1777, architect.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards - Education [(7)1322.F.57a]
Accession number (7)1322.F.57a