Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [Residence of John McAllister Jr., 14 N. Merrick Street, West Penn Square, Philadelphia, Pa.] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date March 1860
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper; 23 x 19 cm.(9 x 7.5 in.)
Description Shows a man, probably McAllister, standing at the doorway of the residence. Also shows a pile of sticks at the base of a tree in front of an iron gate in the foreground. Building sold circa 1879 to the Pennsylvania Railroad to be razed for the erection of the Broad Street Station.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Manuscript note below cyanotype copy photograph in scrapbook compiled by McAllister's grandson William Y. McAllister in February 1894 reads: No. 14 N. Merrick built by J. McAllister about 1835 or 1836 and where he lived till his death in 1877.... [P.2003.28. 52].
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
See reference to photograph in John McAllister letter to C.A Poulson, March 27, 1860 in the C.A. Poulson Autograph Collection, LCP Manuscript Collections.
Subject McAllister, John, 1786-1877 -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Merrick Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 14.
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards - Residences - McAllister [(6)1322.F.88b]
Accession number (6)1322.F.88b