Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title Mennonite church. [graphic] : Of this Mr. Watson writes, " a stone church and grave-yard, near Congress hall (above on the same side of Main Street) but I mean to say nothing of church. From the wall of the ground, they shot Genl. Agnew (during revolutionary battle of Germantown). If that place should be taken (photographed), include the adjoining house of Samuel Keyser, because it is very old - and shows itself [see picture] elevated one whole story above the former road in front - and on that rising hill was the chief fight in the war / Photograph by Richards.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date April 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper mounted on paper; 15 x 21 cm. (6 x 8.25 in.)
Description Shows the stone Mennonite meetinghouse built 1770 at 6121 Germantown Avenue. Also shows the church burial ground and adjacent residence and shop of shoemaker Samuel Keyser (6133 Germantown Avenue). Keyser residence razed circa 1873.
Notes Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount.
Date inscribed on photograph.
Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: [See annals]. [Reference to John Fanning Watson's Annal of Philadelphia].
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 87. 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.1).
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Keyser, Samuel, 1783-1869 -- Homes and haunts.
Germantown Mennonite Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Buildings.
Mennonite churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 6121.
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 6133.
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards - Germantown - G [(3)2526.F.87 (Poulson)]
Accession number (3)2526.F.87