Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer.
Title Friends' Pine Street meeting and school house. On the south side of Pine Street, east of Second Street. The gable end of the large double house southeast corner of Second and Pine St., in perspective. [graphic] : In olden times, this last named house, was the residence of the Marquis de Casa de Yrujo, and family, ambassador from Spain. He was present at the installation of Adams as President of the U.S. in full costume, he married a daughter of Gov. Thomas McKean / Photograph by Richards.
Date March 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper mounted on paper; 19 x 15 cm.(7.5 x 6 in.)
Description View showing the abandoned Pine Street Meeting House built 1752 after the designs of Robert Smith on the 100 block of Pine Street. A brick wall covered in disintegrating broadsides stands in front of the building. Also includes a partial view of the former residence of Marquis de Yrujo, Spanish Minster to the United States 1795-1808. Meeting house was razed circa 1861.
Notes Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount.
Date inscribed on photograph.
Poulson inscription on mount: [See my ms copy of "Lang Syne papers" Art. "Washington" Vol. II, p. 27.]
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, p. 65. 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.
Published in Charles Peterson's Robert Smith architect, builder, patriot 1722-1777 (Philadelphia: The Atheneum of Philadelphia, 2000), p. 37.
Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Published in copperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 40.
Subject Casa Yrujo, Carlos Martínez de Yrujo y Tacón, marqués de, 1763-1824 -- Homes and haunts.
Pine Street Meeting House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Friends' meeting houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Pine Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 100 block.
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Smith, Robert, 1722-1777, architect
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards -- Churches and meetinghouses - [(3)2526.F.65 (Poulson)]
Accession number (3)2526.F.65