Shows the residence of merchant and Philadelphia mayor Charles Willing built in the mid 18th century at 226-228 South Third Street. Also shows adjacent buildings., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on accompanying label., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note by Poulson on accompanying label: See page 53. (From the Northeast.) LCP holds photograph of the view from the northeast, see McClees [(5)2526.F.15a (Poulson)]., 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 64. 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.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
May 1856
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - W [(5)2526.F.7b (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f7b.jpg
Shows the residence of merchant and Philadelphia mayor Charles Willing built in the mid 18th century at 226-228 South Third Street. View includes adjacent buildings, including one adorned with ironwork railings. Also shows the over 100 year old tree dead in the foreground., Title from Poulson inscription on accompanying label., Manuscript note by Poulson on accompanying label: The tree was planted in 1749; This building was removed in Sept. 56; See p. 64., 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 53. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., McClees 1856-11., 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
1856
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Residences - W [(5)2526.F.15a]
