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- 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)]