View showing the dilapidated, former residences being tenanted by businesses on Tenth Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Includes John C. Murphy, carpenter and builder, at 1006 Marble Street. Also shows a horse-drawn wagon, street lamp, and signage adorning the businesses. Buildings razed 1859 for the erection of the Franklin Market., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: (see page 50)., Contains five newspaper clippings pasted on the mount dated March and April 1859 describing the demolition of the wooden houses for the erection of the Franklin Market., 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 51. 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., 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 #57., 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 - Streets - Tenth [(3)2526.F.51 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f51.jpg
