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Title: Aaron Wolff's old wine store, &c on the northwest corner of Chestnut and Seventh Street
Description: Views showing the former wine shop being tenanted by Mahlon Warne, rifle and pistol gallery, and J.E. Gould, pianos, at 701 Chestnut Street. Also shows a partial view of John Sturdivant's lodging house (703 Chestnut); a vendor stand, horse-drawn carts and wagons, and signage for Lacey & Phillips, saddlery, painted on their building on South Seventh Street. Wolff operated as a wine merchant in the 1840s., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount of (3)2526.F.70., Date inscribed on (3)2526.F.70., Newspaper clippings dated April 1859 pasted on mount of (3)2526.F.70 reporting the demolition of the building., One of the images 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 3, page 70. 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., One of the images [(3)2526.F.70] reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 63., Arcadia caption text: ... This image, one of approximately 120 views shot by Richards, was taken in April 1859, only days before the demolition of this building at the northwest corner of Seventh and Chestnut streets. The building’s last tenants included a wine shop, a piano store, and on the top story a shooting gallery with bulls-eye targets affixed to the windows.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Businesses - W [(6)1322.F.113f; (3)2526.F.70 (Poulson)]

Title: Academy of Germantown
Description: Shows the schoolhouse built 1760-1761 by carpenter Jacob Knor at 110 School House Lane. Housed the bi-lingual private boys school established by the Pennsylvania Germans in Germantown in 1759. Used as a hospital during the American Revolution and chartered as a public school in 1784., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: Mr. Watson, writes "Up School[house] lane. It was built before the war, and has some history" - "see Annals.", 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 141. 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.2), Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - G [(3)2526.F.141 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f141.jpg

Title: Academy of Natural Sciences (undergoing "raising", &c.) and the "La Pierre house" hotel; with the private dwelling house at the S.W. corner of Broad and Chestnut Street
Description: View showing the second building of the Academy of Natural Sciences undergoing expansion adjacent to the La Pierre House hotel on the west side of the 100 block of South Broad Street. Also shows scaffolding attached to the museum and construction materials in the street near a horse-drawn wagon. The Academy building, completed in 1840 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Notman and raised a story in 1855, housed the museum until 1876. The La Pierre House hotel, completed in 1853 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John McArthur, was expanded and renamed Lafayette Hotel in 1876., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on negative., 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 3. 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., Select link below for a digital image., Reaccessioned as 8339.F.1.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: July 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo- Richards - Museums [(3)2526.F.3 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/8339f1.jpg

Title: [Auburn, residence of John McAllister Sr., Old Front St. Road, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: View also includes four men seated and standing on the front porch of the country home., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date inscribed on photographs., Manuscript note below cyanotype copy photograph in scrapbook compiled by McAllister's grandson William Y. McAllister in February 1894 reads: Auburn and my horse Jenny. Auburn was a property of Ten Acres on the Old Front St. road bought by Grandfather about 1798 to avoid the yellow fevers - on it he built a Stonehouse - a workshop and horse mill and a factory and other buildings - the property is now nearly as he left it - He died in 1830 and it was sold for about 1/3d of its cost. The streets are not yet run through it but when they are the house will be about F & Tioga St..... [P.2003.28. 51]., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., See reference to photograph in John McAllister letter to C.A Poulson, March 27, 1860 in the C.A. Poulson Autograph Collection, LCP Manuscript Collections.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - McAllister [(6)1322.F.30 & 173a]

Title: The Bank of Germantown Of this building Mr. Watson, the Annalist, thus writes: "It was the residence of Clarkson (City Mayor) now altered on the Bank end. It was the office of Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, and Randolph, attorney Genl. (both, in the fever of 1793). It was still later the residence of John F. Watson, [the annalist], while cashier; and there, in the front second story chamber (North end,) he wrote out in one summer, his Annals of Philadelphia; rising at four [o'clock] and ending at eight [o'clock], A.M."
Description: Exterior view of the Bank of Germantown. Built circa 1745, the building housed the bank from 1825 to 1868. Also known as the Clarkson-Watson House, it served as the home of Matthew Clarkson 1780-95 and of John Fanning Watson, the cashier of the bank, 1825-1847. Image includes partial view of adjoining residences., Title and date from Poulson inscription on mount and 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 75. 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.17), Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - N [(3)2526.F.75 (Poulson)]

Title: Bell Tavern - west side of Eight Street, north of Sansom Street - (a primitive building.) Demolished May 1858
Description: Shows the small tavern adorned with signage on South Eighth Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Sign reads "Jas. Boylew's Bottleing [sic] Cellar." Also shows barrels laying in front of the building and partial views of adjacent buildings, including Conrad Liebrach, patent lock manufacturer (46 S. 8th). Bell Tavern served as a "resort" for early 19th-century politicians and later became known as a "three cent shop" frequented by a racially integrated clientele., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 2, page 39. 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., 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 #73., Tavern described in J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott's History of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884), vol. 2, p. 992.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: May 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - [(2)2526.F.6a (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f6a.jpg

Title: The " Black Bear" Tavern; Girard estate offices; the residence of Thos. Sully, and his studio, and the music store of Geo. E. Blake; up to Fred. Brown's iron building and apothecary shop, at the n.e. corner of Fifth and Chestnut St., and the east side of Fifth St. continued, below (s. of) Chestnut in the perspective. The original Black bear tavern was on south side of Market east of Fifth Street. The stables &c are on the same lot that fronted Market Street
Description: View looking west on Fifth Street below Chestnut Street showing the businesses and residence. Shows the tavern building tenanted by Jeremiah Starr, grocer (11 S. Fifth) and Schaffer & Montgomery, wine and liquors (13 S. 5th). Also includes the office building operated by the estate of Stephen Girard; the residence of artist Thomas Sully (23 S. 5th); Blake's music store (25 S. 5th); and the renovated drug and chemical store of Frederick Brown (rebuilt late 1850s). Carts and wagons line the street and a group of men stand in front of the tavern. Tavern building razed 1859 for the erection of the Eastern Market at Fifth and Merchant streets., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: (see p. 56 1/2)., 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 58. 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.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: February 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo -Richards - Streets - Fifth [(3)2526.F.58 (Poulson)]

Title: [Bullock mansion, North Third Street above Market Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: View looking southeast showing the former mansion of wool merchant Benjamin Bullock (32 N. 3rd, pre-consolidation) tenanted by the businesses of James L. Rahn, hosiery & gloves, and John M. Ford, saddlery hardware, at 46-48 N. 3rd Street above Market Street. Building heavily adorned with signage. Also shows adjacent businesses including William P. Wilstach & Co. (38 N. 3rd), saddlery hardware; Yard, Gillmore & Co., silk goods (40-42 N. 3rd); and Lippincott, Coffin & Co., dry goods and trimmings (50 N. 3rd). Crates, carts, and horse saddlery equipment line the sidewalk., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Title from manuscript note on verso: Bullock's old mansion North 3d., Date from manuscript note on verso., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 2, page 95. 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., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 24., Arcadia caption text: Many structures on the eastern side of Center City, near the Delaware River, were originally constructed as residences and later adapted for commercial use. This photograph, taken in May of 1859, depicts the former mansion of wool merchant Benjamin Bullock on Third Street [above] Market Street. Modified with display windows at street level, two businesses - James L. Rahn’s hosiery and glove shop, and John M. Ford’s saddlery and hardware store - occupy the building. Other homes on this block had already been replaced by taller commercial buildings.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: May 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - B [(2)2526.F.95 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f95.jpg

Title: [Camp Independence, Civil War recruiting camp, Independence Square, rear of Independence Hall, 520 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Views showing rows of tents adorned with flags and recruitment banners lining the central path in the tree-lined square. Views also include soldiers manning the tents, male visitors, and women standing outside the gate of the square., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., LCP AR [Annual Report] 2000, p. 63-64., One of the images [P.9808.3] reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 120., Arcadia caption text: From September to October 1862, Independence Square was transformed into the Civil War recruiting camp Camp Independence. In an effort to avoid a statewide draft, recruiters manned 25 tents along the main thoroughfare amid a band playing patriotic music and under the gaze of dutiful spectators. A few thousand of the over 80,000 Philadelphians who served in the military during the Civil War enlisted at this site, one of the most successful in the city.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: September or October 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Civil War [P.9808.2 & 3]

Title: Carpenters' court and hall (in perspective), Chestnut St. bet. Third and Fourth St
Description: View from Chestnut Street looking south down Congress Place, a gated alley, toward Carpenters' Hall. Contains partial views of businesses adjoining the alley including a portion of the window display for Montgomery Hart & Co., wallpaper, and advertising broadsides for ships displayed in front of Adams Express Company, a private mail service. The Hall, built between 1770 and 1774 after designs by member Robert Smith., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image., 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, page 89. 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. unknown volume, page 89., Reproduced in Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976), entry #314b.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: May 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Organizations - C [2526.F.89], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f89.jpg

Title: [Central High School for Boys, South Juniper Street facing Penn Square below Market Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the first building of the Old Central High School for Boys, the first public high school in the city, built 1837-1838 on the Juniper Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Building contained an astronomical observatory tower. Razed in 1853., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed ca. 1853, printed January 1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Education [(6)1322.F.115c]

Title: Chestnut above Ninth St
Description: Title inscribed on photo., 1859-100., R78., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department [(7)1322.F.55g]

Title: Chestnut above Ninth Street
Description: View looking northwest showing the 900 block of Chestnut Street, including the Markoe W. Watson Lodging House (919 Chestnut) and the residence of businessman General George Cadwalader (925 Chestnut). Majority of dwellings have small gated front yards and iron railings adorning front stoops., Title inscribed on recto of photograph., Manuscript note on mount: Gen. Geo. Cadwalader House., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Chestnut [(7)1322.F.55g]

Title: [Chestnut St., bet. 4th and 5th Sts
Description: Imprint date inscribed on negative., 1859-4., R31a., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: January 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department [(6)1322.F.69b]

Title: [Chestnut St. bet. 4th and 5th Sts
Description: Imprint date inscribed on negative., 1859-5., R31., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg)
Date: Jan. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department [(6)1322.F.29c]

Title: [Chestnut Street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets]
Description: Photographic reproduction of a view showing a residential building on the 1000 block of Chestnut Street. Includes partial view of signage reading "1011-" adorning the adjacent building., Reproduction of February 1859 photograph., Title supplied by cataloguer., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Chestnut [8339.F.10]

Title: Chew's house, Germantown
Description: Exterior view of the colonial residence built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. View includes the west wing of the estate house and the cherry tree rumored to stand near the interred bodies of Revolutionary War soldiers. Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Inscription by Poulson on mount: See pp. 41-43, 40., 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 83. 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.3)., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - C [(3)2526.F.83 (Poulson)]

Title: Christopher Sower's house - And printing office. Mr. Watson, in his letter writes: "The house of Sower the printer, and earliest Bible publisher in our country, and also of an early German newspaper - See facts in Annals. The house stands vis a vis Indian Queen Street, next Wister's." My grandfather Zachariah Poulson, the 1st, was a pupil of Christopher Sower, and here taught the "art and mystery of Printing"
Description: Street view showing the residence of Sower and his son at 5253-5263 Germantown Avenue. Includes adjacent residences, a wood-plank fence, and a partial view of a horse-drawn carriage. House was demolished circa 1862 by Owen J. Wister. Wister built a new residence on the property set back from the street., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: See p. 80., 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 81. 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.15)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - S [(3)2526.F.81 (Poulson)]

Title: "Congress Hall"
Description: 1859-PIC., R86., Title from Watson inscription., Imprint date inscribed on photo., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department [66037.D.4]

Title: [Congress Hall, southeast corner of Chestnut and Sixth Street, Phila.]
Description: View looking southeast showing Congress Hall, built 1787-1789 at 540-558 Chestnut to house the Pennsylvania district and county courts. Also served as the first quarters of the U.S. Congress 1790 - 1800. Includes the State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley (520 Chestnut Street) and the old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. (500 Chestnut). Also shows a vendor stand near Congress Hall., Title and photographer from duplicate in Poulson scrapbook "A collection of Miscellaneous Scraps: Illuminating the history of the city of Philadelphia in the 'olden time,'" volume 5, page 50., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Government Buildings - C [(3)1322.F.7a]

Title: Decatur Street from Jones Hotel
Description: View from Jones hotel on the south side of the 600 block of Chestnut Street showing the construction lot for Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut) on the north side. Lot on the former site of the Arcade Hotel. Also shows Decatur Street below Market and partial views of the 600 blocks of Jayne and Market streets. Includes "Morrell's Carpenter Shop" (611 Jayne), laborers, broadsides pasted on building rubble, and businesses on Market., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Title from manuscript note on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Construction [(7)1322.F.73c], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/1322f773c.jpg

Title: Dr. Staughtons, or Sansom St. Baptist church. Sansom south side east of Ninth Street, as viewed from the northwest, across the foundation walls of the new hotel on the s.e. corner of Chestnut and Ninth Street
Description: View showing the Baptist church organized by Dr. William Staughton built 1811-1812 after the designs of Robert Mills on the 800 block of Sansom Street. Also shows two men standing in front of the church, the adjacent auction house, "Herkness Bazaar, horses, carriages, harnesses &c" (s.e. cor. 9th and Sansom), and the foundation for the Continental Hotel (built 1857-1860). Church reorganized as the Fifth Baptist Church in 1824., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., One of the images 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 3, page 117. 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., See J. Thomas Scharff's and Thompson Westcott's History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884), vol. 2, p. 1309-1310 for the history of the church., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Churches and Meetinghouses - S [(4)1322.F.47e; (3)2526.F.117 (Poulson)]

Title: The dwelling-place of the Annalist This house is situated on Price St. was built by, and now occupied by the venerable and respected and esteemed John F. Watson, in Germantown. Of it he thus writes, "if sufficiently curious - is the house of J.F.W. the annalist, being the first built house in Price Street, now occupied some twelve years. This was about the centre of an old apple orchard of the Revolution, where there was much fighting, and many were killed and wounded"
Description: Shows the residence built circa 1847 for the local historian and author of "Annals of Philadelphia," John Fanning Watson. View includes a boy seated in front of a picket fence., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: Mr. Watson will be eighty years old in June 1859., 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 73. 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.6)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - W [(3)2526.F.73 (Poulson)]

Title: Edward Penington's counting-house. On the northeast corner of Race and Crown street His sugar factory was in the rear facing Crown Street; the building in view is an extensive enlargement of the old "sugar-house."
Description: View looking east showing the Harrison & Newhall Refinery, formerly the Penington Sugar Refinery at 409 Race Street. Refinery reestablished and expanded as the Harrison & Newhall Refinery circa 1855 at 409 Race Street. Also shows surrounding buildings, including a partial view of the gated yard of Penington's former residence at the northwest corner of Race and Crown streets., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: (For Mr. P.'s dwelling house, see p. 99.), 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 101. 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.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Industries - P [(3)2526.F.101 (Poulson)]

Title: Eighth below Walnut east side, the Ellis house
Description: View showing the residence of chemical manufacturer Charles Ellis built 1786-1787 at 223-229 S. Eighth Street. Also shows adjacent buildings, including storefronts adorned with awnings. Residence previously owned by the Morris family descended from Captain Samuel Morris., 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 157. 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., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: May 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - E [(3)2526.F.157 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f157.jpg

Title: Engle's house Of this house Mr. Watson writes "The house of Engle's, a tanner, next north of the Town Hall. It marks a very superior house as the erection of one hundred years ago. It has no history". On the Main Street of Germantown
Description: Shows the residence built 1758 by Benjamin Engle and adjoining tannery shed at 5938 Germantown Avenue. View includes two figures standing next to an ironwork fence, adjacent buildings, and tree saplings., 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 135. 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.14), Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - E [(3)2526.F.135 (Poulson)], http://www,brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f135.jpg

Title: [First U.S. mint building, the "Old Mint," 37-39 Seventh Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the former mint building built 1792 being used as storefronts. Businesses include Cumming & Biddle, plumbers & metallic roofers and Joseph Sellers, silver plater. Also includes two young men standing near and in the doorway of the building. Adjacent building is also visible. Mint occupied location until 1833., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date inscribed on photograph (5)2526.F.6a. Photograph accompanied by brief newspaper clipping noting the establishment of the mint., Manuscript note inscribed on photograph (7)1322.F.31d: Old mint 7 St., One of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., One of 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 6a?. 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.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: July 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Government buildings - U [(7)1322.F.31d; (5)2526.F.6a (Poulson)]

Title: [The Fisher House. Formerly No. 110 now 226 South Front Street The residence of Saml. R. Fisher - where he deceased. His son (only) Thomas then occupied the house where he died, on Tuesday morning, Feby 12th 1856. The house is remarkable from the "pent" roof over the front door - where the second or upper door appears in the picture there was a window similar to that remaining. S.R.F's counting house* no. 27 (old) Dock St. and storehouses were in the rear of this, on Dock Street. The houses northerly in view are to the N.W. cor. of Front and Granite Street.]
Description: View looking east showing the 200 block of Front Street, including the former residence of merchants Samuel Rowland Fisher and his son Thomas Fisher. Also shows adjacent businesses including Kirkpatrick, DeHaven & Co., liquor dealers (228-230 S. Front) and the Pennsylvania Railroad Emigrant Line office (224 S. Front). Also shows barrels lining the sidewalk and a parked horse-drawn dray., Date inscribed on negative., Title from duplicate., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: May 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - F [(7)1322.F.27d]

Title: Free Quakers meeting house. On the southwest corner of Fifth Street. Benjm. Tucker's schools, for many years, were kept in upper portion of this building
Description: Shows the former meeting house built 1783 after the designs of Free Quakers Timothy Matlack and Samuel Price Wetherill at 500 Arch Street. Building tenanted by the Apprentice's Library 1841-1897. View includes a vendor's stand in front of the library and slabs of stone laying in the street. Building served as the Free Quakers' meetinghouse until circa 1838. Second floor added 1788. Free Quakers were excommunicated from the Society of Friends because of their violent resistance during the American Revolution., Date inscribed on photograph., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount of 3599.Q.110., One of images originally part of a Philadelphia scrapbook directory for 1768 compiled by John McAllister, Jr., Charles Massey, Jr. and Charles Poulson., One of images originally part of a series of eight scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson entitled " A collection of Miscellaneous Scraps: Illuminating the history of the city of Philadelphia in the 'olden time,'" volume 4, page 36a., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Churches and meetinghouses [3599.Q.110 (Poulson); (4)3602.F.36a (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/3599q110.jpg

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 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
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., 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.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards -- Churches and meetinghouses - [(3)2526.F.65 (Poulson)]

Title: "Friends" schoolhouses - East side of Fourth St. south of Chestnut Street
Description: Shows the former school building of the Friends' Academy, erected in 1744, rebuilt in 1803, and razed in 1859, boarded up for demolition on the 100 block of South 4th Street. Building adorned with signage promoting a "stationery & printing" shop. Also shows adjacent businesses G. Krouse, gas fitter (117 S. 4th); Quaker City Bag Factory; and Moses Thomas & Sons, auctioneers (139-141 S. 4th). Friends' Academy, established in 1689 by the Religious Society of Friends, suspended operations in 1842 and was re-established as the William Penn Charter School in 1875., Date inscribed in negative., Title from manuscript note by collector on mount., Manuscript note by collector on mount: On the 9th of April '59 workmen commenced demolishing the "old Quaker schools houses" pictured above. The over-topping wall &c (gable) at termination of the picture are parts of the auction store of Moses Thomas & Sons -near but one house to the N.E. cor. of Fourth & Harmony St. [Note the northern school - house only was removed on the site of which are now erected 3 noble stores 4 stories high, Aug. 27th 1859. CP., Duplicate of 8339.F.6., Originally part of a Poulson's scrapbook., See Poulson's scrapbook, vol. 4, p.35. [(4)3602.Q]., Richards, Philadelphia painter, etcher, and photographer produced some of the earliest successful paper photographic prints in the city, including photographs commissioned by local historian Charles Poulson to document Philadelphia.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Education [(4)3602.Q.1]

Title: "Friends" schoolhouses - East side of Fourth St. south of Chestnut Street
Description: Shows the former school building of the Friends' Academy, erected in 1744, rebuilt in 1803, and razed in 1859, boarded up for demolition on the 100 block of South 4th Street. Building adorned with signage promoting a "stationery and printing" shop. Also shows adjacent businesses G. Krouse, gas fitter (117 S. 4th); Quaker City Bag Factory; and Moses Thomas & Sons, auctioneers (139-141 S. 4th). Friends' Academy, established in 1689 by the Religious Society of Friends, suspended operations in 1842 and was re-established as the William Penn Charter School in 1875., Date inscribed in negative., Title and name of photographer from duplicate., 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 39 1/2. 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., Select link below for a digital image., Duplicate of (4)3602.F.1.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Education [(5)2526.F.39 1/2 / 8339.F.6], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/8339f6.jpg

Title: German Lutheran school house. Next to the N.E. corner of Cherry and Fourth St. on Cherry Street
Description: View looking northeast from above Third Street showing the former school house, known as the Zion Lutheran School, built in 1761 after the designs of Robert Smith, at 325-7 Cherry Street. Building tenanted by Joseph Wrigley's hotel and tavern. Also shows the adjacent G. Goebel's Hotel and Lager Beer Saloon (N.E. cor. 4th and Cherry). Two men, including a peddler with a basket, lean on the hotel signpost in the foreground. The school built by the Zion Lutheran Church also served as a parish hall and as the meeting place of the German Society., Title and date from duplicate., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 103., Arcadia caption text: The congregation of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church commissioned prominent Philadelphia architect-builder Robert Smith to construct this school house at 325 Cherry Street. Completed in 1761, the building faced some disapproval from the reverend because of its cost. Nonetheless, the Zion Lutheran School, as it became known, provided a meeting space for the German Society of Pennsylvania, a parish hall for the Zion Lutheran Church across the street, and room for classes. Antiquarian Charles Poulson’s note on this 1859 photograph mentions that the center window on the first floor was originally a front door., Richards, Philadelphia painter, etcher, and photographer produced some of the earliest successful paper photographic prints in the city, including photographs commissioned by local historian Charles Poulson to document Philadelphia.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: May 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Education [(7)1322.F.57a]

Title: Girard House Hotel, northeast corner of Chestnut & 9th St As viewed from the southwest across the foundation walls of the new hotel on the s.e. corner of Chestnut and Ninth Street
Description: View looking northeast from the construction site of the Continental Hotel showing the Girard House hotel, built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Signage advertising John O. Mead & Sons, silverplaters, adorns the hotel building. Also shows an advertisement promoting "Bathing Robes at Sloans" visible on a building adjacent to the construction and a man standing on a section of the foundation. The Continental Hotel was built 1857-1860 after the designs of McArthur., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on (3)2526.F.115., One of the images 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 3, page 115. 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., Select link below for a digital image., (6)1322.F.65b reproduction of (3)2526.F.115, (3)2526.F.115 reaccessioned as 8339.F.4.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Hotels - G [(6)1322.F.65b; (3)2526.F.115], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/8339f4.jpg

Title: Hart's Building, north side of Chestnut east from Sixth St
Description: View looking east from Sixth Street showing Hart's Building, a store and office building owned by prominent Jewish publisher and philanthropist, Abraham Hart, erected 1848 at 537-539 Chestnut. Signage advertising E.B. Mear, stereotype foundry, and Gilbert & Gihon, engravers on wood, adorns the building. Also shows adjacent businesses including T.& J.W. Johnson, law book publisher (535 Chestnut); Eagle Hotel (530 Chestnut); J.W. Moore, importer and bookseller (531 Chestnut); and William J. Kern, French warehouse, and China Hall (529 Chestnut)., Reproduction of a daguerreotype originally photographed June 1851 by F.De B. Richards., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Businesses - H [(6)1322.F.83b], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/1322f83b.jpg

Title: Henry Hill's mansion, northeast corner of Fourth and Union street
Description: View showing the Hill-Physick House built 1786 for wine merchant Henry Hill at 319-327 South Fourth Street. Includes the brick wall surrounding the garden of the residence. Noted physician Dr. Philip Syng Physick resided in house 1815-1837., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on negative., 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 63. 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.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: February 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - H [(3)2526.F.63 (Poulson)]

Title: The hole in the wall of Christ Church burial ground on the southeast corner of Arch and Fifth street; opened for the purpose of exhibiting the tomb of Benjamin and Deborah Franklin, which is immediately in front nearest to the surface of the ground on Arch Street
Description: Shows several tombs and monuments, including the Franklin graves, behind a section of ironwork fencing within a brick wall surrounding the church cemetery at 420-424 Arch Street. View also includes surrounding buildings., 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 127. 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.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Cemeteries - C [(3)2526.F.127 (Poulson)]

Title: Holy Trinity (Romish) Church, northwest corner of Spruce and Sixth Street
Description: View showing the German Roman Catholic church built 1789 at 601-613 Spruce Street., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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 149. 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., See J. Thomas Scharff's and Thompson Westcott's History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884), vol. 2, p. 1375-76 for history of church.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: June 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Churches and Meetinghouses - H [(3)2526.F.149 (Poulson)]

Title: The house & home of Sam Morris
Description: Title from Watson inscription., Imprint date inscribed on photo., 1859-PIC., R90., Pictorial views of houses & places in Germantown - in 1859, p. 8., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Richards album [66037.D.8]

Title: [The house and farm of Thomas Godfrey on the corner of Limekiln Road and Church Lane, Germantown]
Description: Shows the former residence of Thomas Godfrey, inventor of the mariner's quadrant. Farm surrounded by a white picket fence. Godfrey family purchased the farm from Samuel Carpenter in 1697., Title supplied by cataloguer., 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 89. 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.7)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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 #206., Reaccessioned as P.2294., Corresponding album page describing "Godfrey's House" [(2)2526.F.89 (Poulson)] housed with photograph
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - G [(3)2526.F.89 (Poulson)

Title: House n.w. corner of Prune and Fourth street
Description: Exterior view of the residences located at the northwest corner of Prune [i.e. Locust] and 4th Streets. Shows a gentleman standing on the corner., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., 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 45. 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., Previously misidentified as the Wistar-Shippen House located at the s.w. corner of Prune and 4th.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: September 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Fourth [(5)2526.F.5b (Poulson)]

Title: House s.w. corner of Prune and Fourth street House built and occupied by Joseph P. Norris, Jr. - and also - St. Mary's church - the part of a house on the right of the picture is that occupied by Louis Phillip of France - see next page - The first house here pictured, was originally occupied by Dr. Shippen, afterwards by Dr. C. Wister; there was then a two-storied brick office, on the south of it, on Fourth Street, which gave place to the present mansion, now occupied by John Cadwalader. J.R. Tyson now lives in the "Wister-house." -April 4th 1858
Description: View looking south on Fourth Street from the northeast corner of Prune Street [i.e. Locust Street] showing the Shippen-Wistar House built circa 1765 at 238 South 4th Street. Includes a few men and boys posed on the street corner. Residence of William Shippen circa 1765-1797 and Caspar Wistar 1798-1809., Title, photographer's imprint, and date from Poulson inscription on mount., 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 43. 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.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: September 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - S [(5)2526.F.5a (Poulson)]

Title: [James A. Freeman auction house, 422 Walnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows the auction house at 422 Walnut Street of the business established in 1805. Building adorned with signage reading "Select New & 2nd Hand Furniture." Building, built circa 1797-1799, also served as a boarding house and the residence of Chief Justice John Marshall. Freeman operated from the address 1858-1898., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Compass directions given in manuscript on mount., Accompanied by newspaper clipping dated Mar 26, 1859 entitled "Building Improvements." Column notes that "On the south side of Walnut street, below Fifth, the old mansion, at one time one of our most fashionable boarding houses in the city, and lately used for offices, has been torn down, and a fine new building with ornamental front, is now being erected on the site.", 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 103. 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 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 141., For cited dates of auction house's operation at 422 Walnut Street, see Roland Arkell and Catherine Saunders-Watson, The verdue masters: Tales from within the walls of America's oldest auction housr (New York: Antique Collectors club, 2005), p. 65., Reaccessioned as 8339.F.3.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: January 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Businesses - F [(3)2526.F.103 (Poulson)]

Title: [Jayne Building, 242-244 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View looking southwest showing the building built 1849-1850 for David Jayne, chemist and manufacturer of patent medicines, after the designs of William Johnston and Thomas Ustick Walter. Building includes the six story wings built 1851 after the designs of Walter (238-40 and 246 Chestnut Street). Signage advertising "Importer of German Woolens" adorns the building. Also shows adjacent businesses including Goodyear's rubber warehouse (226 Chestnut) and the newspaper publishing office, the Public Ledger Building (300 Chestnut)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo- Richards - Businesses - J [(6)1322.F.75b], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/1322f75b.jpg

Title: John George Knorr's house This house (the central in the picture) was built by the grandfather of my maternal grandfather - he occupied it many years - then by his son J.G.K., the 2nd, then by my grandfather John Knorr - then by Michael Keyser, who married my great aunt, up to the time of their death, when it was sold by the heirs and since been variously occupied. The original founder of the this house emigrated to this country July 30, 1706. It is nearly opposite Dr. Witt's old house - now "Congress hall boarding house" and as Mr. Watson informs me, "The first of three stories" (in height) in Germantown
Description: Shows the residence of John George Knorr at 6100-6106 Germantown Avenue. Property owned by the family 1728-1849. House razed in 1868. Also shows adjacent residences., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: [See page 77]., 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 79. 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.11)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: May 5, 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - K [(3)2526.F.79 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f79.jpg

Title: Joseph Sims old mansion. Next south of St. Peters' church ground on the west side of Third Street near Lombard St. (part of the church, and Pine St., house in the view)
Description: Shows the former residence of merchant Joseph Sims on the 400 block of South Third Street. Also shows a horse-drawn wagon hauling materials and partial views of surrounding buildings, including St. Peter's Church (300-340 Pine)., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson manuscript note on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Mount inscribed with directions: N. E. S. W, 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 107. 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., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - S [(3)2526.F.107 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/25256f107.jpg

Title: [Keene Mansion, 1001 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows the residence of Philadelphia attorney Henry E. Keene completed 1815 by carpenter Peter L. Berry. Also includes signage advertising a billards saloon visible in the left of the image., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on recto: N.W. 10th & Chestnut., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 5, 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residence - K [8339.F.9], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/8339f9.jpg

Title: Kohn's Mansion. Chestnut Street, west of Tenth St. North side. Late "Parkinson's Restaurant, confectionery, garden" &c
Description: Shows the former confectionery with stone frieze carved "Parkinson" above one of the entrances of the double house at 1015-1019 Chestnut Street. J.W. Parkinson opened the restaurant and garden in 1853. Building razed circa 1921., 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 68. 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., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - K [(3)2526.F.68 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f68.jpg

Title: [Library Street, southside, between Goldsmith's Hall and Fourth Street]
Description: Photographic reproduction of view looking east on the 400 block of Library Street. Shows the office building of Howell Evans, card and fancy printer, built 1855 after the designs of J. & A. Ferguson (402 Library); Isaiah Bryan's Our House hotel (408 Library); William Jack, carriage repository (410 Library); the public hall, Military Hall, the former arsenal building, built 1810 (412 Library); and William Quinn, manufacturer of velocipedes (418 Library). Lager beer signs adorn the hotel and military hall, carriages line the sidewalk, and an individual stands in the doorway of the former arsenal. Brewer Gustavus Bergner managed Military Hall in the late 1850s., Title supplied by cataloguer., Reproduction of photograph dated January 1859., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Library [(6)1322.F.130c]

Title: Louis Phillipe's second place of residence in Phila After residing at the house of one of the partners of the firm of Cunningham & Nesbitt, in Front bel. Walnut St., two or three weeks he boarded in the above pictured house; on the arrival of his brothers from France, he with them commenced housekeeping in the building, still standing, at the N.W. corner of Fourth and Prune Street. The western portion of Rev. Mr. Marshall's Presbyterian church (old, but renovated, enlarged, &c lately) is on the left of the picture and a faint view (in the sky) of the spire of St. Peter's church on Pine and Third St
Description: Shows the former residence of Reverend William Marshall who hosted the exiled King of France at 322 Spruce Street. Philippe lived at the residence 1796-1797., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount of (3)2526.F.95., Date inscribed on (3)2526.F.95., Manuscript notes by Poulson on mount: (See page 11); (See opposite page)., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. Contains marked out manuscript note on recto: House 322 Spruce Street Philadelphia. And west side of Scots Presbyterian Church 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 3, page 95. 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., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's and Susan Oyama's Philadelphia then and now (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 8.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - L [(3)2526.F.95 (Poulson); (6)1322.F.35c]

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