Details
Title Rear view, Edward Shippen Burd House, S.W. corner 9th & Chestnut Streets; removed 1862. [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1862
Date [ca. 1862]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17.5 cm. (3.25 x 7 in.)
Description View shows the rear of the mansion of the late Philadelphia lawyer built 1801-1802 after the designs of Benjamin Henry Latrobe at 900-906 Chestnut Street. Includes a boy sitting on the rear porch near statuary of dogs. Mansion razed circa 1862 following the death of Burd's widow, the grandniece of merchant Joseph Sims, the original owner of the mansion.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Buff mount with square corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Subject Burd, Edward Shippen, 1779-1848 -- Homes and haunts.
Mansions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 900-906.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Residences [P.9047.27]
Accession number P.9047.27