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Title: [Founder's Hall, Girard College, 1201-1211 West College Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: View looking southwest showing the hall constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival Style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter. Also shows a partial view of a neighboring building left of the hall and several trees in the foreground. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from manuscript note on verso., McClees 1858-13., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: October 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [(6)1322.F.122]

Title: [Spring Garden Institute, northeast corner Broad and Spring Garden streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows the vocational school built 1851-1852 after the designs of Hoxie & Button at 523-525 North Broad Street. Also shows partial views of surrounding buildings. The institute, comprised of a lecture-room, a lending library, a free reading room, classrooms, and a boardroom, educated youth for employment in the practical sciences and technologies., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount: Sp. Garden Hall - N.E. Cor Broad and Sp. Garden St., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., McClees, an early prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: ca. 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Spring Garden [(7)1322.F.45b]

Title: Central High School house, Broad Street
Description: View looking northeast showing the second building of the Central High School for Boys (established 1838), the first public high school in the city, built 1853 on the 6000 block of North Broad Street in Fern Rock. Also shows adjacent buildings and several large pipe sections in the street in the foreground. Building housed the school until 1900., Title from accompanying label., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook., Trimmed., McClees 1856-8.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: ca. 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Education [(5)2526.F.14b]

Title: [Academy of the Visitation, soutwest corner Broad and Poplar streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of the religious educational institution incorporated in 1850 under the direction of the Ladies of Visitation. The Academy, the former residence of gentleman Benjamin Stiles, also housed the Convent of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The order was founded in Philadelphia in 1848., Manuscript note on recto: SW Corner Broad & Poplar Sts., Title supplied by cataloguer., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: ca. 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Education [(7)1322.F.23b]

Title: Deaf & dumb asylum, n.w. corner Broad & Pine Street, Philadelphia
Description: View looking northwest showing the building constructed 1824-26 after the designs of John Haviland at 320 South Broad Street. View includes street railroad tracks, street lamps, and adjacent residences. The school, incorporated in 1821, provided instruction in trades and manufactures to deaf and mute persons., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 107., Arcadia caption text: This 1858 view of Broad Street looking northwest from Pine Street depicts the thoroughfare as more structures were springing up near the once rural area. The massive Greek Revival building, familiar today as the University of the Arts’ Dorrance Hamilton Hall, was erected 1824-1826 for the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb after the designs of John Haviland. This school, chartered in 1821, taught deaf and mute students industrial and trade skills, such as tailoring and lithography. The school left the building in 1893, at which time the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now University of the Arts) purchased it.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: June 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [8339.F.19]

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