| Creator |
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer. |
| Contributor |
Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860. |
|
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector. |
| Title |
The Rock House, [graphic] : So called, writes Mr. Watson, "because it rests on an exposed rock (large) situated at the junction
of Shoemaker's street ("lane" in old times), and the rail road. It has no particular history, but is picturesque and ancient"
/ Photograph by Richards.
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| Publisher |
[Philadelphia] |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1859 |
| Date |
April 1859 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : salted paper mounted on paper ; mount 15 x 22 cm (6 x 8.75 in.) |
| Description |
Exterior view of the first farm of Isaac Shoemaker, known as the Rock House, built in the late 17th century on East Penn Street,
east of the Reading Railroad Bridge. Farm also served as a location from which William Penn preached and as a station on the
Underground Railroad. Shows a man sitting on top of the large rock beside the stone farmhouse with two chimneys. A wooden
fence surrounds the property.
|
| Notes |
Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount. |
|
Date inscribed on photograph. |
|
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 131. 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.
|
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Also included in an annotated album containing twenty photographs by Richards entitled "Pictorial views of houses & places
in Germantown yr 1859." (LCP 66037.D.18).
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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 #207.
|
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Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. |
|
Description revised 2021. |
|
Access points revised 2021. |
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Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the
Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom
Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
|
| Subject |
Shoemaker, Isaac -- Homes and haunts. |
|
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Farmhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Underground railroad system -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Rock House (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| Geographic subject |
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Penn Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East -- 347. |
| 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 - R [(3)2526.F.131] |
| Accession number |
(3)2526.F.131 |
