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Title: Old first high school house - Juniper street, Penn Square
Description: View showing the first building of the Old Central High School for Boys, the first public high school in the city, built 1837-1838 on Juniper Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Building contained an astronomical observatory tower. Razed in 1853., Title, date, and photographer from accompanying manuscript note by collector., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 59. 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., See Poulson's scrapbook, vol. 5, p. 13., 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. 101., Arcadia caption text: On October 21, 1838, Philadelphia’s first four-year public school opened with an enrollment of 89 boys. Central High School, located on Juniper Street between Market and Chestnut streets, offered superior courses taught by respected faculty. This photograph was taken in 1853, the year the school sold the site to the Pennsylvania Railroad and began construction of a larger school. The observatory tower visible in the background reportedly had better telescopes than Harvard University.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed ca. 1853, printed January 1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Education [(5)2526.F.59]

Title: [Central High School for Boys, South Juniper Street facing Penn Square below Market Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the first building of the Old Central High School for Boys, the first public high school in the city, built 1837-1838 on the Juniper Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Building contained an astronomical observatory tower. Razed in 1853., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed ca. 1853, printed January 1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Education [(6)1322.F.115c]

Title: Classical Seminary. Franklin Square. S.E. corner Race & Seventh streets, Philadelphia
Description: View looking past Franklin Square showing the boy's school, later the Classical Institute, founded in 1837 by John W. Faires at 47 N. 8th Street. An iron-wrought fence separates the square from the row of buildings, including the school, in the background. In the foreground, children play and families stroll within the square. Two boys play with hoops and a couple admires the fountain., pdcc00003, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 17:20
Date: [ca. 1838]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 17:20

Title: Central High School, Broad and Green Streets
Description: View looking southeast showing the west front and north flank of the second building of the Central High School for Boys (established 1838), the first public high school in the city, built 1853 at the southeast corner of North Broad and Green Streets. Also shows the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem, constructed in 1854 after designs by Collins & Autenreith, situated immediately north of Spring Garden Institute, built 1851-1852 after designs by Stephen Decatur Button at the northeast corner of Broad and Spring Garden Streets., Title from photographer's label on verso. Also lists forty-one other views in the series (No. 140-180)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Bartlett, George O., photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett - Education [P.2002.21.6]

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