Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title Old house on the southeast corner of Fifth and Spruce Street. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date April 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper; 18 x 16 cm.(7 x 6.25 in.)
Description Shows the old house tenanted by a grocery on the 300 block of South Fifth Street. Signage adorns the store window and chickens hang in the entranceway. Also shows partial views of surrounding buildings and carts resting on the sidewalk.
Notes Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount.
Date inscribed on photograph.
Detailed manuscript note on verso describing the establishment of the Friends Pine Street Meetinghouse. See [(3)2526.F.65 (Poulson)]
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 63. 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.
Subject Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Grocery stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Spruce Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 300 block.
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards - Streets - Fifth [(3)2526.F.63a]
Accession number (3)2526.F.63a