Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [James A. Freeman auction house, 422 Walnut Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date January 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper mounted on paper; 19 x 15 cm.(7.5 x 6 in.)
Description Shows the auction house at 422 Walnut Street of the business established in 1805. Building adorned with signage reading "Select New & 2nd Hand Furniture." Building, built circa 1797-1799, also served as a boarding house and the residence of Chief Justice John Marshall. Freeman operated from the address 1858-1898.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount.
Date inscribed on photograph.
Compass directions given in manuscript on mount.
Accompanied by newspaper clipping dated Mar 26, 1859 entitled "Building Improvements." Column notes that "On the south side of Walnut street, below Fifth, the old mansion, at one time one of our most fashionable boarding houses in the city, and lately used for offices, has been torn down, and a fine new building with ornamental front, is now being erected on the site."
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 103. 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.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Published in copperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 141.
For cited dates of auction house's operation at 422 Walnut Street, see Roland Arkell and Catherine Saunders-Watson, The verdue masters: Tales from within the walls of America's oldest auction housr (New York: Antique Collectors club, 2005), p. 65.
Reaccessioned as 8339.F.3.
Subject Freeman, James A.
Marshall, John, 1755-1835 -- Homes and haunts.
Auctioneers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Walnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 422.
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards - Businesses - F [(3)2526.F.103 (Poulson)]
Accession number (3)2526.F.103 (Poulson)