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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: Residence of Genl. Washington This house, writes Mr. Watson, was once the residence of Genl. Washington, and before him, of Genl. Howe, and the prince youth afterwards King William (IX of Engd.), now Samuel B. Morris' residence, [lately deceased]. It was the best house in the place (Germantown)
Description: View showing the Deshler-Morris house built 1772 by David Deshler at 5442 Germantown Avenue. Also shows an adjacent residence, trees in the house garden, and a wood fence. The house occupied by Washington during the summer of the yellow fever epidemic of 1794 was purchased by Samuel Morris from the estate of his father-in-law, Elliston Perot, in 1836. Morris family owned the property until bequeathed to the National Park Service 1948., Title and photographer's imprint from Pouslon 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 93. 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 - Germantown - D [(3)2526.F.93 (Poulson)]

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)]

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