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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: 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)]

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