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 Michael Billmeyer's house and printing office - his bookstore was in portion of the house nearest the eye - it was the next "place" above Chews place. [graphic] : Mr. Watson writes "It is a good one [to be photographed]." At its south end Genl. Washington stopped on horseback during the battle of Germantown. The house is on Main Street.
Date April 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper mounted on paper; 15 x 20 cm.(6 x 7.75 in.)
Description View showing the former residence of Michael Billmeyer, German printer for the Pennsylvania Assembly, built circa 1730 at 6505-6507 Germantown Avenue. Billmeyer resided at house 1789-1831.
Notes Title 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 85. 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.19).
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
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Subject Billmeyer, Michael, 1752-1837 -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 6505-6507.
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 - B [(3)2526.F.85 (Poulson)]
Accession number (3)2526.F.85 (Poulson)