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)
