Details
Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Notman, John, 1810-1865, architect.
Title [Academy of Natural Sciences and La Pierre House, north west corner of Broad and Sansom Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date ca. 1855
Physical Description 2 photographic prints: 1 albumen; 1 salted paper; 23 x 18 cm. (9 x 7 in.) or smaller.
Description View showing the second building of the Academy of Natural Sciences museum and the adjacent hotel on the west side of the 100 block of South Broad Street. The second building of the Academy, completed in 1840 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Notman, and expanded in 1855, housed the museum until 1876. The hotel, completed in 1853 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John McArthur, was expanded and renamed Lafayette Hotel in 1876. Includes a horse-drawn carriage parked in front of the hotel; a broadside pasted on the gateway to the alley between the buildings; and a neighboring building to the north.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
One of the images probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
One of the images originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 41. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape.
McClees 1855-13.
One of the images reproduced Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #100.
Biographical / historical note McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerrotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Subject Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
La Pierre House (Hotel : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Museums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 100 block -- West side.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Associated name Notman, John, 1810-1865, architect.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Museums [(5)2526.F.4b; 8339.F.27]
Accession number (5)2526.F.4b
8339.F.27