Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Knor, Jacob, builder.
Title Academy of Germantown. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date April 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper mounted on paper; 16 x 20 cm.(6.25 x 7.75)
Description Shows the schoolhouse built 1760-1761 by carpenter Jacob Knor at 110 School House Lane. Housed the bi-lingual private boys school established by the Pennsylvania Germans in Germantown in 1759. Used as a hospital during the American Revolution and chartered as a public school in 1784.
Notes Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount.
Date inscribed on photograph.
Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: Mr. Watson, writes "Up School[house] lane. It was built before the war, and has some history" - "see Annals."
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 141. 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.2)
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
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Subject Germantown Academy.
German Americans -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject School House Lane (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 110.
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Knor, Jacob, builder.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards - Germantown - G [(3)2526.F.141 (Poulson)]
Accession number (3)2526.F.141 (Poulson)