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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: Nutz's house "A very old stone house," writes Mr. Watson, "of two storys, owned and dwelt in by Nutz, a tanner, who had his tanyard along the street, southward. It is now a house resting some two feet or more below the street pavement but in former years (before the turnpike was laid there at a higher grade) " it had two steps upwards of entrance form the street. It was originally the Van de Waestyne House." On the Main Street of Germantown - "on the north side of the street, between Shoemaker and Mill street"
Description: View showing the former residence of tanner Leonard Nutz built circa 1730 on Main Street between Shoemaker and Mill Streets. Building adorned with broadside advertisements, including a promotion for D.J. Eiserman & Co., painting establishment. Also shows adjacent businesses, including William Tarr, dry goods store on Main Street above Mill Street. Keyser's History of Old Germantown (1907) purports the address as 5329 West Penn Street., 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 139. 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.5)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., See Naaman Henry Keyser, et al., History of Old Germantown ... (Philadelphia: Horace F. McCann, 1907), 265. Keyser cites the address of the residence of Leonard Nutz as 5329 West Penn Street., See LCP catalog Germantown and Germans: ... (1983), 65.
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.139 (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 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: 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: The Rock House So called, writes Mr. Watson, "because it rests on an exposed rock (large) situated at the junction of Shoemaker's street ("lane" in old times), and the rail road. It has no particular history, but is picturesque and ancient"
Description: Exterior view of the first farm of Isaac Shoemaker, known as the Rock House, built in the late 17th century on East Penn Street, east of the Reading Railroad Bridge. Farm also served as a location from which William Penn preached and as a station on the Underground Railroad. Shows a man sitting on top of the large rock beside the stone farmhouse with two chimneys. A wooden fence surrounds the property., 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 131. 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.18)., 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 #207., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - R [(3)2526.F.131]

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: 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: 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: 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: [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: 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 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
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., 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., 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 - B [(3)2526.F.85 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f85.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: Old Washington Tavern At the corner of Washington Lane and the Main Street Germantown
Description: Shows several man standing in front of the Revolutionary War era tavern, also used as a market house in the 19th century, on the 6200 block of Germantown Avenue. Planks of wood rest on the side of the building. Also shows a fenced lot, a nearby hotel, and a view of signage advertising "H. Strouse carpet weaver" on an adjacent building., 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 133. 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.20)., 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 - W [(3)2526.F.133 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f133.jpg

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: Macknett's Tavern "It is picturesque," writes Mr. Watson; "it existed in the time of the revolution, and was then, and afterwards, the prominent tavern for visits of city gentleman. It is now owned by George W. Carpenter, and has no history." On the Main Street, this side of "Congress hall" - Germantown
Description: Shows the property, formerly a tavern and the residence of Rev. John Rodney, owned by Philadelphia merchant George W. Carpenter, on the 5900 block of Germantown Avenue., 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 129. 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.13)., 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 - M [(3)2526.F.129], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f129.jpg

Title: Mennonite church Of this Mr. Watson writes, " a stone church and grave-yard, near Congress hall (above on the same side of Main Street) but I mean to say nothing of church. From the wall of the ground, they shot Genl. Agnew (during revolutionary battle of Germantown). If that place should be taken (photographed), include the adjoining house of Samuel Keyser, because it is very old - and shows itself [see picture] elevated one whole story above the former road in front - and on that rising hill was the chief fight in the war
Description: Shows the stone Mennonite meetinghouse built 1770 at 6121 Germantown Avenue. Also shows the church burial ground and adjacent residence and shop of shoemaker Samuel Keyser (6133 Germantown Avenue). Keyser residence razed circa 1873., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: [See annals]. [Reference to John Fanning Watson's Annal of Philadelphia]., 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 87. 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.1)., 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 - G [(3)2526.F.87 (Poulson)]

Title: Roberts' Mill "To go back the Church lane," writes Mr. Watson, "there is Roberts' Mill and dam, holding the place, and probably much of the original of the first mill in Philadelphia county"
Description: View of the first grist mill in Philadelphia built in 1683 by Richard Townsend in Germantown at Church Lane and Wingohocking Street. Named for its early 19th-century owner, Hugh Roberts, the mill was razed in 1873. Also shows the rear of a horse-drawn wagon parked beside the mill., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: [See picture and note of Godfrey's house on page 89]., 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 91. 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.9)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select the 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 - R [(3)2526.F.91 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f91.jpg

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