Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title Bell Tavern - west side of Eight Street, north of Sansom Street - (a primitive building.) Demolished May 1858. [graphic] / By Richards.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1857
Date May 1857
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper mounted on paper; 29 x 21 cm.(11.5 x 8 in.)
Description Shows the small tavern adorned with signage on South Eighth Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Sign reads "Jas. Boylew's Bottleing [sic] Cellar." Also shows barrels laying in front of the building and partial views of adjacent buildings, including Conrad Liebrach, patent lock manufacturer (46 S. 8th). Bell Tavern served as a "resort" for early 19th-century politicians and later became known as a "three cent shop" frequented by a racially integrated clientele.
Notes Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
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Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 2, page 39. 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.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #73.
Tavern described in J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott's History of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884), vol. 2, p. 992.
Subject Liebrach, Conrad.
Bell Tavern (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Taverns (Inns) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Locksmiths -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Eighth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 000 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 - [(2)2526.F.6a (Poulson)]
Accession number (2)2526.F.6a (Poulson)