[President-elect Abraham Lincoln raising flag in front of Independence Hall in honor of admission of Kansas to the Union, February 22, 1861] [graphic].
Title
[President-elect Abraham Lincoln raising flag in front of Independence Hall in honor of admission of Kansas to the Union, February 22, 1861] [graphic].
Description
Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced as a wood engraving in Harper's Weekly, March 9, 1861, p. 145., Reissued and copyrighted by Theodore S. Hacker in 1865., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Shows Lincoln raising a large American flag while upon a flag-draped platform in front of Independence Hall. Dignitaries stand near the president, a crowd of spectators, including men in trees, surrounds the platform, and guards protect the stage.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer., creator
Date
[February 22, 1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. photo - Richards - Events [(3)1322.F.7b]
Decatur Street from Jones Hotel [graphic].
Title
Decatur Street from Jones Hotel
Description
View from Jones hotel on the south side of the 600 block of Chestnut Street showing the construction lot for Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut) on the north side. Lot on the former site of the Arcade Hotel. Also shows Decatur Street below Market and partial views of the 600 blocks of Jayne and Market streets. Includes "Morrell's Carpenter Shop" (611 Jayne), laborers, broadsides pasted on building rubble, and businesses on Market., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Title from manuscript note on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
ca. 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Construction [(7)1322.F.73c], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/1322f773c.jpg
Engine house of the Twenty-fourth Ward Water Works. Designed and constructed by Birkinbine & Trotter, engineers and contractors, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Title
Engine house of the Twenty-fourth Ward Water Works. Designed and constructed by Birkinbine & Trotter, engineers and contractors, Philadelphia
Description
View showing the engine house at the water works also known as the West Philadelphia Water Works, completed circa 1855, on the west bank of the Schuylkill River above the Fairmount Dam. The engine house built after the designs of engineers Birkinbine & Trotter, contained two boiler rooms, sleeping rooms for the engineers, and storerooms. Also shows two men standing near a fence in the foreground and the smokestack at the waterworks in the background., Name of photographer from duplicate in private collection., Title from accompanying label., 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 70? 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., Birkinbine & Trotter was a partnership between Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Edward H. Trotter (1814-1872), 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 #97., 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. 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Public Utilities [(5)2526.F.4a]
Old houses, west side of Fourth St. opposite Union St., and the "Hill mansion" [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Title
Old houses, west side of Fourth St. opposite Union St., and the "Hill mansion"
Description
Shows the former residential buildings on the west side of the 300 block of South Fourth Street, including the old residence of antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer at 152 South Fourth Street. Dreer residence being used as a storefront. Shows merchandise on view in the display windows., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: (Hill mansion), for a picture of which see page 62., 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 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
1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Fourth [(3)2526.F.64 (Poulson)]
Tomb of Aaron Burr. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Title
Tomb of Aaron Burr
Description
Shows the notorious Vice-president's headstone in the Presidents' lot of the Princeton Cemetery in Princeton, N.J. Also shows the photographer, Richards, seated on a tomb next to the headstone., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Accompanied by three newspaper clippings dated November 13, 1828, February 4, 1858, and February 8, 1858 noting anecdotes about Burr., Originally part of a series of five scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson entitled "American Biography," vol. 2, p. 32.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
September 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Monuments and statues - B [(2)2525.F.32]
Old houses on the north side of Arch Street, west of Third and the new Hotel [graphic].
Title
Old houses on the north side of Arch Street, west of Third and the new Hotel
Description
Shows dilapidated residences with closed shutters and broken windows on the 300 block of Arch Street west of Union Hote (321 Arch)., Title from manuscript note., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
March 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Arch [(6)1322.F.xx]
Chestnut above Ninth Street. [graphic].
Title
Chestnut above Ninth Street
Description
View looking northwest showing the 900 block of Chestnut Street, including the Markoe W. Watson Lodging House (919 Chestnut) and the residence of businessman General George Cadwalader (925 Chestnut). Majority of dwellings have small gated front yards and iron railings adorning front stoops., Title inscribed on recto of photograph., Manuscript note on mount: Gen. Geo. Cadwalader House., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
ca. 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Chestnut [(7)1322.F.55g]
Revd. Dr. Blackwell's house and residence until his decease, on the south side of Pine Street, between Second and Third Streets in the picture opposite the public street lamp. [graphic] : Govr. John Penn's residence where the deceased, (in the picture), n
Title
Revd. Dr. Blackwell's house and residence until his decease, on the south side of Pine Street, between Second and Third Streets in the picture opposite the public street lamp Govr. John Penn's residence where the deceased, (in the picture), next east of Dr. Blackwell's. Both houses are still standing, in excellent repair and condition, this day, July 11th 1864. Govr. Penn was the grandson of the founder, W. Penn
Description
View looking west from Second Street showing the residence of Robert Blackwell, minister of St. Peter's Church and Christ Church, built 1773 at 224 Pine Street. Also shows the residence of Governor John Penn (222 Pine), the steeple of St. Peter's Church (300-340 Pine), children standing on the stoop of the Blackwell residence, a lamppost, and a partial view of a carriage., Dates inscribed on photograph., Compass directions by manuscript note on mount., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Manuscript note on mount: (Vide opposite page.) CP., Originally part of a Philadelphia scrapbook directory for 1768 compiled by John McAllister, Jr., Charles Massey, Jr. and Charles Poulson.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
May or June 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - B [3599.Q.107 (Poulson)]
[Auburn, residence of John McAllister Sr., Old Front St. Road, Philadelphia, Pa.] [graphic].
Title
[Auburn, residence of John McAllister Sr., Old Front St. Road, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description
View also includes four men seated and standing on the front porch of the country home., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date inscribed on photographs., Manuscript note below cyanotype copy photograph in scrapbook compiled by McAllister's grandson William Y. McAllister in February 1894 reads: Auburn and my horse Jenny. Auburn was a property of Ten Acres on the Old Front St. road bought by Grandfather about 1798 to avoid the yellow fevers - on it he built a Stonehouse - a workshop and horse mill and a factory and other buildings - the property is now nearly as he left it - He died in 1830 and it was sold for about 1/3d of its cost. The streets are not yet run through it but when they are the house will be about F & Tioga St..... [P.2003.28. 51]., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., See reference to photograph in John McAllister letter to C.A Poulson, March 27, 1860 in the C.A. Poulson Autograph Collection, LCP Manuscript Collections.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
March 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - McAllister [(6)1322.F.30 & 173a]
"Friends" schoolhouses - East side of Fourth St. south of Chestnut Street [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Title
"Friends" schoolhouses - East side of Fourth St. south of Chestnut Street
Description
Shows the former school building of the Friends' Academy, erected in 1744, rebuilt in 1803, and razed in 1859, boarded up for demolition on the 100 block of South 4th Street. Building adorned with signage promoting a "stationery & printing" shop. Also shows adjacent businesses G. Krouse, gas fitter (117 S. 4th); Quaker City Bag Factory; and Moses Thomas & Sons, auctioneers (139-141 S. 4th). Friends' Academy, established in 1689 by the Religious Society of Friends, suspended operations in 1842 and was re-established as the William Penn Charter School in 1875., Date inscribed in negative., Title from manuscript note by collector on mount., Manuscript note by collector on mount: On the 9th of April '59 workmen commenced demolishing the "old Quaker schools houses" pictured above. The over-topping wall &c (gable) at termination of the picture are parts of the auction store of Moses Thomas & Sons -near but one house to the N.E. cor. of Fourth & Harmony St. [Note the northern school - house only was removed on the site of which are now erected 3 noble stores 4 stories high, Aug. 27th 1859. CP., Duplicate of 8339.F.6., Originally part of a Poulson's scrapbook., See Poulson's scrapbook, vol. 4, p.35. [(4)3602.Q]., Richards, Philadelphia painter, etcher, and photographer produced some of the earliest successful paper photographic prints in the city, including photographs commissioned by local historian Charles Poulson to document Philadelphia.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
April 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Education [(4)3602.Q.1]
Academy of Music - or operahouse - S.W. cor. Broad & Locust St. [graphic] / James E. McClees.
Title
Academy of Music - or operahouse - S.W. cor. Broad & Locust St
Description
View of front and partial side facades of brick and sandstone Italianate style building. Architects Napoleon LeBrun and Gustav Runge formed a short-lived partnership to win design competition. Building constructed 1855-1857. Served as home of Philadelphia Orchestra from 1900-2000., Photographer's blind stamp on duplicate., Title from scrapbook inscription., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of Poulson scrapbook of material relating to Philadelphia.
Creator
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date
ca. 1857
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees [8339.F.32]
Academy of Natural Sciences (undergoing "raising", &c.) and the "La Pierre house" hotel; with the private dwelling house at the S.W. corner of Broad and Chestnut Street. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Title
Academy of Natural Sciences (undergoing "raising", &c.) and the "La Pierre house" hotel; with the private dwelling house at the S.W. corner of Broad and Chestnut Street
Description
View showing the second building of the Academy of Natural Sciences undergoing expansion adjacent to the La Pierre House hotel on the west side of the 100 block of South Broad Street. Also shows scaffolding attached to the museum and construction materials in the street near a horse-drawn wagon. The Academy building, completed in 1840 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Notman and raised a story in 1855, housed the museum until 1876. The La Pierre House hotel, completed in 1853 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John McArthur, was expanded and renamed Lafayette Hotel in 1876., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on negative., 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 3. 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., Select link below for a digital image., Reaccessioned as 8339.F.1.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
July 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo- Richards - Museums [(3)2526.F.3 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/8339f1.jpg
Northwest corner of Carpenter and Sixth street, north of Chestnut Street. [graphic] : Gray's brewery building is partially seen on the right of the picture. Where the "sign" is now, was, in my remembrance a picture full length of Sir John Falstaff, as rep
Title
Northwest corner of Carpenter and Sixth street, north of Chestnut Street Gray's brewery building is partially seen on the right of the picture. Where the "sign" is now, was, in my remembrance a picture full length of Sir John Falstaff, as represented in the Chestnut Street Theatre by William Warren, the manager
Description
View showing the Falstaff Hotel, formerly the Washington Tavern, established in 1790 on Sixth and Carpenter (i.e. Jayne) streets between Market and Chestnut streets. Hotel renamed in reference to a sign designed by John Archibald Woodside depicting actor William Warren (hotel owner) in the character of Falstaff adorning the inn in the 1820s-1830s. Inn used for legal proceedings and as a meeting-space for societies. Also shows a partial view of the adjacent Gray's Brewery (24 S. Sixth). Brewery operated by Gray family 1772-1866, including George W. Gray who served as proprietor 1850-1866., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 2, page 41. 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., 1980), entry # 72., See J. Thomas Scharff's and Thompson Westcott's History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884), vol. 2, p. 984 for history of hotel., See J. Thomas Scharff's and Thompson Westcott's History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884), vol. 3, p. 2278-2279 for history of brewery., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image., Reaccessioned as 8339.F.40.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
June 1857
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Hotels, Inns, Taverns - F [(2)2526.F.41(Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/8339f40d72.jpg
[Academy of the Visitation, soutwest corner Broad and Poplar streets, Philadelphia] [graphic].
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]
Residence of Wm. Crammond [sic], esq. s.w. corner of Third and Spruce Street. [graphic].
Title
Residence of Wm. Crammond [sic], esq. s.w. corner of Third and Spruce Street
Description
View looking southwest showing the former residence of Philadelphia merchant William Cramond. Ironwork gates adorn the lower level of the building. Also includes signage visible in the left of the image advertising "City Office.", Attributed to F. De B Richards., Tile from manuscript note by Poulson inscribed on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., 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, page 85. 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, with edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
June 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - C [(11)2526.F.85], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f85.jpg
[Hope Hose Company steam fire engine and fire fighters in front of the company fire station, Second and Union streets, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Title
[Hope Hose Company steam fire engine and fire fighters in front of the company fire station, Second and Union streets, Philadelphia]
Description
Includes spectators and a partial view of an "Oyster Depot" in the background. Fire station was former mansion of gentlewoman Mary Gurney. Hope Hose Company founded on August 17, 1805., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from manuscript note on verso: Hope steam fire engine and the Gurney Mansion, s.e. corner Front & Union streets. July 18, 1858., 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
July 18, 1858
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [(6)1322.F.120]
Ruins of museum building. Ninth below Chestnut Street. [graphic].
Title
Ruins of museum building. Ninth below Chestnut Street
Description
Photograph depicting the fire ruins of the Philadelphia Museum known as the Chinese Museum built circa 1836-1838 after the designs of Isaac Holden at Ninth and Sansom Streets. Shows partial fragments of the brick walls left standing. Bricks and debris are visible on the ground. The Museum served as an exhibition space, including the display of Nathan Dunn's Chinese artifact collection, and as a concert, public meeting, and lecture space until razed by fire on July 5, 1854., Title from Poulson inscription., Date inferred from content., Attributed to Richards & Betts., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" unidentified volume, page 13b. 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., 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 #158., 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. 14., Arcadia caption text: The Chinese Museum, built 1836-1838 after the designs of English architect Isaac Holden, was a veritable multi-use venue. The two-story marble building exhibited Nathan Dunn’s impressive collection of wax figures dressed in authentic Chinese clothing set amidst Chinese furniture, decorations, and rooms along with the Philadelphia Museum Company’s holdings of artist Charles Willson Peale’s collection of paintings, bones, stuffed animals, and curiosities. Between 1842 and 1844 both museums left the building due to decreased attendance and profits, but the space at the northeast corner of Ninth and Sansom streets capable of holding 8,000 people continued to host balls, political conventions, plays, lectures, public meetings, and exhibitions, such as the Exhibition of American Manufactures sponsored by the Franklin Institute, pictured above in October 1844. The smoldered remains of the building are shown below, after a devastating fire destroyed it on July 5, 1854., Richards & Betts was a partnership between Frederick DeBourg Richards and John Betts circa 1854-1857.
Creator
Richards & Betts, photographer
Date
July 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Fires [(5)2526.F.13b]
[The Hamilton mansion, S.E. corner of Seventh and Carpenter, now Jayne St., taken down this spring.] [graphic].
Title
[The Hamilton mansion, S.E. corner of Seventh and Carpenter, now Jayne St., taken down this spring.]
Description
Exterior view of the residence on South Seventh Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Also shows adjoining building and a store clerk standing in in the street to the left of the image., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson scrapbook duplicate., 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
January 18, 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Residences - H [(6)1322.F.67a]
Louis Phillipe's second place of residence in Phila. [graphic] : After residing at the house of one of the partners of the firm of Cunningham & Nesbitt, in Front bel. Walnut St., two or three weeks he boarded in the above pictured house; on the arrival of
Title
Louis Phillipe's second place of residence in Phila After residing at the house of one of the partners of the firm of Cunningham & Nesbitt, in Front bel. Walnut St., two or three weeks he boarded in the above pictured house; on the arrival of his brothers from France, he with them commenced housekeeping in the building, still standing, at the N.W. corner of Fourth and Prune Street. The western portion of Rev. Mr. Marshall's Presbyterian church (old, but renovated, enlarged, &c lately) is on the left of the picture and a faint view (in the sky) of the spire of St. Peter's church on Pine and Third St
Description
Shows the former residence of Reverend William Marshall who hosted the exiled King of France at 322 Spruce Street. Philippe lived at the residence 1796-1797., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount of (3)2526.F.95., Date inscribed on (3)2526.F.95., Manuscript notes by Poulson on mount: (See page 11); (See opposite page)., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. Contains marked out manuscript note on recto: House 322 Spruce Street Philadelphia. And west side of Scots Presbyterian Church Philadelphia., One of the images 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 95. 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., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's and Susan Oyama's Philadelphia then and now (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 8.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
March 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - L [(3)2526.F.95 (Poulson); (6)1322.F.35c]
The Penington mansion. On the northwest corner of Race and Crown Street. [graphic]
Title
The Penington mansion. On the northwest corner of Race and Crown Street
Description
Shows the former residence of sugar refiner Edward Penington, built circa 1760, on the 400 block of Race Street. Residence includes ironwork fencing. Ivy adorns the side of the building., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., 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 99. 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
March 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - P [(3)2526.F.99 (Poulson)]
William Penn's mansion or the "slate-roof house." Southeast corner of Norris Alley and Second Street. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Title
William Penn's mansion or the "slate-roof house." Southeast corner of Norris Alley and Second Street
Description
View showing storefronts occupying the former Penn residence built circa 1687-circa 1699 on the 100 block of South Second Street. Scaffolding covers the H-shaped building and piles of wood planks lie in the street. A clothing store occupies one section of the building and small tables are visible on a flat-section of the roof. Served as the residence of Penn from 1699-1701., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Compass directions inscribed on mount., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: See p. 32., Accompanied by article dated April 23, 1864 describing the averted demolition of the residence and planned preservation of the building by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 2, page 31. 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., Select link below for a digital image., Published in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry # 54., Corresponding album page describing "Penn's House" [(2)2526.F.28 (Poulson)] housed with photograph.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
August 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - P [(2)2526.F.31 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f31.jpg
[Residence of John McAllister Jr., 14 N. Merrick Street, West Penn Square, Philadelphia, Pa.] [graphic].
Title
[Residence of John McAllister Jr., 14 N. Merrick Street, West Penn Square, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description
Shows a man, probably McAllister, standing at the doorway of the residence. Also shows a pile of sticks at the base of a tree in front of an iron gate in the foreground. Building sold circa 1879 to the Pennsylvania Railroad to be razed for the erection of the Broad Street Station., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note below cyanotype copy photograph in scrapbook compiled by McAllister's grandson William Y. McAllister in February 1894 reads: No. 14 N. Merrick built by J. McAllister about 1835 or 1836 and where he lived till his death in 1877.... [P.2003.28. 52]., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., See reference to photograph in John McAllister letter to C.A Poulson, March 27, 1860 in the C.A. Poulson Autograph Collection, LCP Manuscript Collections.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
March 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - McAllister [(6)1322.F.88b]
Yohe's, late Jones' Hotel. On the south side of Chestnut St., next to the Clymer mansion (afterward Geo. Harrison's residence) between Sixth and Seventh St. The site, in the olden times, of the celebrated "Oeller's hotel." [graphic] / Photograph by Richar
Title
Yohe's, late Jones' Hotel. On the south side of Chestnut St., next to the Clymer mansion (afterward Geo. Harrison's residence) between Sixth and Seventh St. The site, in the olden times, of the celebrated "Oeller's hotel."
Description
Shows the hotel originally built circa 1800 as the residence of Benjamin Say by Jacob Vogdes at 616-620 Chestnut Street. Notices adorn the hotel entranceway. Also shows partial views of adjacent businesses including James B. Smith & Co., booksellers, publishers, blank book manufacturers and stationers (610 Chestnut) and Howell & Brother, wallpaper manufacturers (622 Chestnut). Wallpaper displays are visible in the Howell & Brother storefront window., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed in negative., Compass directions given in manuscript on mount., One of images 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 113. 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., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
December 1858
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Hotels - Y [(3)2526.F.113 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f113.jpg
Perot mansion. North side of Market Street near Eighth St (old no. 297, now no. 731). [graphic] : At this date ( June 15th 1859) it is the only exclusively private dwelling house on Market Street, either side of the way, between the Delaware and Schuylkil
Title
Perot mansion. North side of Market Street near Eighth St (old no. 297, now no. 731) At this date ( June 15th 1859) it is the only exclusively private dwelling house on Market Street, either side of the way, between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers! It was built by, and occupied by John Perot, Esq. in the year 1804, who continued to reside there up to the time of his decease on the .It is at present owned and occupied by his son Edward Perot
Description
View looking west on the 700 block of Market Street showing the residence of gentleman Edward Perot, son of merchant John Perot. Also shows adjacent businesses, including Edwin Harot's restaurant (727 Market); a patent medicine dealer selling "Thomsonian Medicines" (729 Market); and Henry McGrath's bookstore and Benjamin Sheneman's plane manufactory (733 Market). Crates line the street and the rear of a wagon is visible., Title and photographer's inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., 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 153. 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 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - P (3)2526.F.153 (Poulson)]
View of the ruins caused by the great fire northeast corner of Sixth and Market st. which began on the night of Weds. April 30, 1856 - From the northwest. [graphic].
Title
View of the ruins caused by the great fire northeast corner of Sixth and Market st. which began on the night of Weds. April 30, 1856 - From the northwest
Description
Shows burnt ruins and fire debris lining Sixth Street above Market from the fire begun in the rag and paper warehouse of Jessup & Moore on North Street below Arch. Includes a line of men standing on debris and Independence Hall in the background. The fire razed forty-four buildings, which caused a loss of half of a million dollars., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on accompanying label., 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 77. 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., McClees 1856-5., See clippings in Poulson scrapbook "Illustrations of Philadelphia," vol. 5, p .21., 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
1856
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Fires and firefighting [(5)2526.F.9a]
Joseph Sims old mansion. Next south of St. Peters' church ground on the west side of Third Street near Lombard St. (part of the church, and Pine St., house in the view). [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Title
Joseph Sims old mansion. Next south of St. Peters' church ground on the west side of Third Street near Lombard St. (part of the church, and Pine St., house in the view)
Description
Shows the former residence of merchant Joseph Sims on the 400 block of South Third Street. Also shows a horse-drawn wagon hauling materials and partial views of surrounding buildings, including St. Peter's Church (300-340 Pine)., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson manuscript note on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Mount inscribed with directions: N. E. S. W, 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 107. 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., 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 - Residences - S [(3)2526.F.107 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/25256f107.jpg
Mansion of Joseph Sims, Esq. On south[west] corner of Chestnut and Ninth Street, the ground extending to George, now Sansom Street, on which latter it has a frontage, with stables & c equal to that on Chestnut Street. After the failure in business of Mr.
Title
Mansion of Joseph Sims, Esq. On south[west] corner of Chestnut and Ninth Street, the ground extending to George, now Sansom Street, on which latter it has a frontage, with stables & c equal to that on Chestnut Street. After the failure in business of Mr. Sims, it was occupied for many years until his decease, by Mr. Sims son-in-law and family Edward S.Burd, esq. Mrs. Burd his widow still reside there - April 16, 59
Description
Shows the Shippen Burd mansion built 1801-1802 after the designs of Benjamin Henry Latrobe at 900-906 Chestnut Street. View includes a horse-drawn carriage. Mansion razed circa 1862 following the death of Burd's widow, the grandniece of merchant Joseph Sims, the original owner of the mansion., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Manuscript note on mount: Error Edw. Shippen Burd m. dau. of Joseph Sims brother Woodropp Sims., Date inscribed on photograph., 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 53. 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
April 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - B [(3)2526.F.53]
Christopher Sower's house - [graphic] : And printing office. Mr. Watson, in his letter writes: "The house of Sower the printer, and earliest Bible publisher in our country, and also of an early German newspaper - See facts in Annals. The house stands vis
Title
Christopher Sower's house - And printing office. Mr. Watson, in his letter writes: "The house of Sower the printer, and earliest Bible publisher in our country, and also of an early German newspaper - See facts in Annals. The house stands vis a vis Indian Queen Street, next Wister's." My grandfather Zachariah Poulson, the 1st, was a pupil of Christopher Sower, and here taught the "art and mystery of Printing"
Description
Street view showing the residence of Sower and his son at 5253-5263 Germantown Avenue. Includes adjacent residences, a wood-plank fence, and a partial view of a horse-drawn carriage. House was demolished circa 1862 by Owen J. Wister. Wister built a new residence on the property set back from the street., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: See p. 80., 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 81. 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., Also included in an annotated album containing twenty photographs by Richards entitled "Pictorial Views of Houses & Places in Germantown yr 1859." (LCP 66037.D.15)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
April 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - S [(3)2526.F.81 (Poulson)]
The old Hurst mansion, "standing back," facing the west, on the northeast corner of Fifth and South street. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Title
The old Hurst mansion, "standing back," facing the west, on the northeast corner of Fifth and South street
Description
View showing the former residence of English gentleman Charles Hurst built 1775-1779 on the 500 block of South Fifth Street. Shows the front yard of the building being used as a storage area. Yard contains several wagons, including the wagon of "W.B. Chambers, grocer, N.E. cor. 5th & Pine" and headstones from the adjacent marble yard. Also shows a young man seated on a chair amongst several pieces of furniture lining the wood fence in front of the former residence. Fence painted with several notices to the public., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed in negative., Mount inscribed with directions: N. E. S. W., 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 119. 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., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
December 1858
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - H [(3)2526.F.119 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f119.jpg
The Rock House,
Title
The Rock House So called, writes Mr. Watson, "because it rests on an exposed rock (large) situated at the junction of Shoemaker's street ("lane" in old times), and the rail road. It has no particular history, but is picturesque and ancient"
Description
Exterior view of the first farm of Isaac Shoemaker, known as the Rock House, built in the late 17th century on East Penn Street, east of the Reading Railroad Bridge. Farm also served as a location from which William Penn preached and as a station on the Underground Railroad. Shows a man sitting on top of the large rock beside the stone farmhouse with two chimneys. A wooden fence surrounds the property., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., 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 131. 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., Also included in an annotated album containing twenty photographs by Richards entitled "Pictorial views of houses & places in Germantown yr 1859." (LCP 66037.D.18)., 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 #207., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
April 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - R [(3)2526.F.131]
The Rock House, [graphic] : So called, writes Mr. Watson, "because it rests on an exposed rock (large) situated at the junction of Shoemaker's street ("lane" in old times), and the rail road. It has no particular history, but is picturesque and ancient" /
Title
The Rock House So called, writes Mr. Watson, "because it rests on an exposed rock (large) situated at the junction of Shoemaker's street ("lane" in old times), and the rail road. It has no particular history, but is picturesque and ancient"
Description
Exterior view of the first farm of Isaac Shoemaker, known as the Rock House, built in the late 17th century on East Penn Street, east of the Reading Railroad Bridge. Farm also served as a location from which William Penn preached and as a station on the Underground Railroad. Shows a man sitting on top of the large rock beside the stone farmhouse with two chimneys. A wooden fence surrounds the property., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., 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 131. 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., Also included in an annotated album containing twenty photographs by Richards entitled "Pictorial views of houses & places in Germantown yr 1859." (LCP 66037.D.18)., 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 #207., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
April 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - R [(3)2526.F.131]
Old wooden houses, extending southwardly from the corner of Marble Street, on the west side of Tenth Street, to Miss Sally Keene's, late Maj. Lennock's property and residence, built by "Col." Peter L. Berry. N.W. corner of Chestnut and Tenth streets. [gra
Title
Old wooden houses, extending southwardly from the corner of Marble Street, on the west side of Tenth Street, to Miss Sally Keene's, late Maj. Lennock's property and residence, built by "Col." Peter L. Berry. N.W. corner of Chestnut and Tenth streets
Description
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
Old houses, on the north side of Arch Street, between Second and Third Street. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Title
Old houses, on the north side of Arch Street, between Second and Third Street
Description
View showing former residences on the 200 block of Arch Street, including the Betsy Ross House being tenanted by tailor Philip Mund at 239 Arch Street . View also shows adjacent businesses. Shows William Gelbert, cake bakery (241 Arch), a cigar store (237 Arch), and Alexander Oelsner, hat, cap, and fur store (235 Arch)., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., 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, page 73. 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., Reproduced in Edward Arthur Mauger's Philadelphia Then and Now, (San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2002), p. 10.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
March 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - R [(11)2526.F.73 (Poulson)]
Old houses, from the southeast corner of Fourth and Union Street, to the northeast corner of Pine and Fourth Street. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Title
Old houses, from the southeast corner of Fourth and Union Street, to the northeast corner of Pine and Fourth Street
Description
Shows the former residential buildings on the east side of the 300 block of South Fourth Street. Awning frames adorn most of the buildings., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., 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 60. 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
March 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Fourth [(3)2526.F.60 (Poulson)]
Old house on the southeast corner of Fifth and Spruce Street. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Title
Old house on the southeast corner of Fifth and Spruce Street
Description
Shows the old house tenanted by a grocery on the 300 block of South Fifth Street. Signage adorns the store window and chickens hang in the entranceway. Also shows partial views of surrounding buildings and carts resting on the sidewalk., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Detailed manuscript note on verso describing the establishment of the Friends Pine Street Meetinghouse. See [(3)2526.F.65 (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 11, page 63. 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
April 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Fifth [(3)2526.F.63a]
Louis Phillipe's second place of residence in Phila. [graphic] : After residing at the house of one of the partners of the firm of Cunningham & Nesbitt, in Front bel. Walnut St., two or three weeks he boarded in the above pictured house; on the arrival of
Title
Louis Phillipe's second place of residence in Phila After residing at the house of one of the partners of the firm of Cunningham & Nesbitt, in Front bel. Walnut St., two or three weeks he boarded in the above pictured house; on the arrival of his brothers from France, he with them commenced housekeeping in the building, still standing, at the N.W. corner of Fourth and Prune Street. The western portion of Rev. Mr. Marshall's Presbyterian church (old, but renovated, enlarged, &c lately) is on the left of the picture and a faint view (in the sky) of the spire of St. Peter's church on Pine and Third St
Description
Shows the former residence of Reverend William Marshall who hosted the exiled King of France at 322 Spruce Street. Philippe lived at the residence 1796-1797., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount of (3)2526.F.95., Date inscribed on (3)2526.F.95., Manuscript notes by Poulson on mount: (See page 11); (See opposite page)., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. Contains marked out manuscript note on recto: House 322 Spruce Street Philadelphia. And west side of Scots Presbyterian Church Philadelphia., One of the images 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 95. 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., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's and Susan Oyama's Philadelphia then and now (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 8.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
March 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - L [(3)2526.F.95 (Poulson); (6)1322.F.35c]
Rittenhouse Mansion. Northwest corner of Arch and Seventh Street. Sometimes called "fort Rittenhouse" [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Title
Rittenhouse Mansion. Northwest corner of Arch and Seventh Street. Sometimes called "fort Rittenhouse"
Description
Shows the former residence of astronomer David Rittenhouse built 1786-1787 by master builder Joseph Ogilby at 701 Arch Street. Also shows nearby buildings., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., 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, page 75. 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., 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 - Residences - R [(11)2526.F.75 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f75.jpg
[Chestnut St., bet. 4th and 5th Sts. [graphic] / Frederick DeB. Richards].
Title
[Chestnut St., bet. 4th and 5th Sts
Description
Imprint date inscribed on negative., 1859-4., R31a., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
January 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department [(6)1322.F.69b]
[James A. Freeman auction house previous to demolition, 422 Walnut Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Title
[James A. Freeman auction house, 422 Walnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description
Shows the auction house at 422 Walnut Street of the business established in 1805. Building adorned with signage reading "Select New & 2nd Hand Furniture." Building, built circa 1797-1799, also served as a boarding house and the residence of Chief Justice John Marshall. Freeman operated from the address 1858-1898., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Compass directions given in manuscript on mount., Accompanied by newspaper clipping dated Mar 26, 1859 entitled "Building Improvements." Column notes that "On the south side of Walnut street, below Fifth, the old mansion, at one time one of our most fashionable boarding houses in the city, and lately used for offices, has been torn down, and a fine new building with ornamental front, is now being erected on the site.", 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 103. 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 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 141., For cited dates of auction house's operation at 422 Walnut Street, see Roland Arkell and Catherine Saunders-Watson, The verdue masters: Tales from within the walls of America's oldest auction housr (New York: Antique Collectors club, 2005), p. 65., Reaccessioned as 8339.F.3.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
January 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Businesses - F [(3)2526.F.103 (Poulson)]
Old first high school house - Juniper street, Penn Square. [graphic] / Photogh. F.D.B. Richards.
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]
Academy of Germantown. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Title
Academy of Germantown
Description
Shows the schoolhouse built 1760-1761 by carpenter Jacob Knor at 110 School House Lane. Housed the bi-lingual private boys school established by the Pennsylvania Germans in Germantown in 1759. Used as a hospital during the American Revolution and chartered as a public school in 1784., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: Mr. Watson, writes "Up School[house] lane. It was built before the war, and has some history" - "see Annals.", 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 141. 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., Also included in an annotated album containing twenty photographs by Richards entitled "Pictorial Views of Houses & Places in Germantown yr 1859." (LCP 66037.D.2), Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
April 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - G [(3)2526.F.141 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f141.jpg
Rev. Jno. Chambers Church, N.E. cor Broad & Sansom Sts. [graphic].
Title
Rev. Jno. Chambers Church, N.E. cor Broad & Sansom Sts
Description
Exterior view of the First Independent Church, later renamed Chambers Presbyterian Church, built 1831 at the northeast corner of Broad and Sansom streets. Also shows adjacent buildings, including a residence with awnings adorning the second floor windows. Church housed the independent congregation of Rev. John Chambers. Congregation admitted to the Presbytery in 1873., Title from Poulson inscription on accompanying label., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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 91? 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., Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Published in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 157., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator
McClees & Germon, photographer
Date
1856
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Churches and meetinghouses [(5)2526.F.105]
"Friends" schoolhouses - East side of Fourth St. south of Chestnut Street [graphic].
Title
"Friends" schoolhouses - East side of Fourth St. south of Chestnut Street
Description
Shows the former school building of the Friends' Academy, erected in 1744, rebuilt in 1803, and razed in 1859, boarded up for demolition on the 100 block of South 4th Street. Building adorned with signage promoting a "stationery and printing" shop. Also shows adjacent businesses G. Krouse, gas fitter (117 S. 4th); Quaker City Bag Factory; and Moses Thomas & Sons, auctioneers (139-141 S. 4th). Friends' Academy, established in 1689 by the Religious Society of Friends, suspended operations in 1842 and was re-established as the William Penn Charter School in 1875., Date inscribed in negative., Title and name of photographer from duplicate., 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 39 1/2. 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., Select link below for a digital image., Duplicate of (4)3602.F.1.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
April 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Education [(5)2526.F.39 1/2 / 8339.F.6], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/8339f6.jpg
German Lutheran school house. Next to the N.E. corner of Cherry and Fourth St. on Cherry Street. [graphic].
Title
German Lutheran school house. Next to the N.E. corner of Cherry and Fourth St. on Cherry Street
Description
View looking northeast from above Third Street showing the former school house, known as the Zion Lutheran School, built in 1761 after the designs of Robert Smith, at 325-7 Cherry Street. Building tenanted by Joseph Wrigley's hotel and tavern. Also shows the adjacent G. Goebel's Hotel and Lager Beer Saloon (N.E. cor. 4th and Cherry). Two men, including a peddler with a basket, lean on the hotel signpost in the foreground. The school built by the Zion Lutheran Church also served as a parish hall and as the meeting place of the German Society., Title and date from duplicate., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., 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. 103., Arcadia caption text: The congregation of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church commissioned prominent Philadelphia architect-builder Robert Smith to construct this school house at 325 Cherry Street. Completed in 1761, the building faced some disapproval from the reverend because of its cost. Nonetheless, the Zion Lutheran School, as it became known, provided a meeting space for the German Society of Pennsylvania, a parish hall for the Zion Lutheran Church across the street, and room for classes. Antiquarian Charles Poulson’s note on this 1859 photograph mentions that the center window on the first floor was originally a front door., Richards, Philadelphia painter, etcher, and photographer produced some of the earliest successful paper photographic prints in the city, including photographs commissioned by local historian Charles Poulson to document Philadelphia.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
May 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Education [(7)1322.F.57a]
Pepper's brewery. [graphic] : And dwelling house - the latter - on northwest corner of Fifth and Minor street with a view in perspective of the houses on the west side of Fifth Street to the corner of Market Street - also part of the house on n.w. corner
Title
Pepper's brewery And dwelling house - the latter - on northwest corner of Fifth and Minor street with a view in perspective of the houses on the west side of Fifth Street to the corner of Market Street - also part of the house on n.w. corner of Market and Fifth Street
Description
Shows Robert Smith's Brewery, formerly the Pepper Brewery, on South Fifth Street between Market and Chestnut streets. View includes two men standing near several barrels lined in front of the brewery. Also shows adjacent and neighboring businesses, including partial views of a manufacturer and a shoe store. Pepper Brewery, originally established by Joseph Potts in 1774, was assumed by Henry Pepper & Son circa 1780. Smith, who joined in partnership with Pepper's sons and Frederick Seckel in 1837, gained sole proprietorship of the brewery in the mid 1850s. Brewery was incorporated in 1887 and relocated to 38th Street and Girard Avenue in 1888., Title from manuscript note by Poulson on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., 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 55. 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., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
February 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - [(3)2526.F.55 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f55.jpg
West side of Ninth St., from the southwest corner of Market & Ninth St. southerly to Chestnut Street &c including a view of the building of the University of Pennsylvania (part of the house on the s.e. corner of Market and Ninth St. on your left hand.) [g
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West side of Ninth St., from the southwest corner of Market & Ninth St. southerly to Chestnut Street &c including a view of the building of the University of Pennsylvania (part of the house on the s.e. corner of Market and Ninth St. on your left hand.)
Description
View looking south on Ninth Street showing the block between Market and Chestnut streets including the University of Pennsylvania. Also shows businesses including John F. Burke, dry goods merchant (900 Market); Samuel Conrad, dry goods merchant (s.e. cor. 9th & Market); and James M'Geoch, tailor (2 S. 9th). Displays of merchandise, including textiles, are visible at the storefronts and carts and wagons line the street., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Compass directions by manuscript note on mount., 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 97. 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
March 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Ninth [(3)2526.F.97 (Poulson)]
Residence of Genl. Washington. [graphic] : This house, writes Mr. Watson, was once the residence of Genl. Washington, and before him, of Genl. Howe, and the prince youth afterwards King William (IX of Engd.), now Samuel B. Morris' residence, [lately decea
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Residence of Genl. Washington This house, writes Mr. Watson, was once the residence of Genl. Washington, and before him, of Genl. Howe, and the prince youth afterwards King William (IX of Engd.), now Samuel B. Morris' residence, [lately deceased]. It was the best house in the place (Germantown)
Description
View showing the Deshler-Morris house built 1772 by David Deshler at 5442 Germantown Avenue. Also shows an adjacent residence, trees in the house garden, and a wood fence. The house occupied by Washington during the summer of the yellow fever epidemic of 1794 was purchased by Samuel Morris from the estate of his father-in-law, Elliston Perot, in 1836. Morris family owned the property until bequeathed to the National Park Service 1948., Title and photographer's imprint from Pouslon inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., 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 93. 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
April 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - D [(3)2526.F.93 (Poulson)]
Old house n.w. cor. of Sixth & Cherry St. [graphic].
Title
Old house n.w. cor. of Sixth & Cherry St
Description
Shows the the former residence at 606-610 Cherry street tenanted by a "grocers furnishing establishment." Advertising signage adorns the building. Also shows a partial view of signage adorning an adjacent building, which reads "C. Berr... Central ...", Title from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., 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 67. 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., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
June 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Cherry [(3)2526.F.67 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f67.jpg
The Bank of Germantown [graphic] : Of this building Mr. Watson, the Annalist, thus writes: "It was the residence of Clarkson (City Mayor) now altered on the Bank end. It was the office of Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, and Randolph, attorney G
Title
The Bank of Germantown Of this building Mr. Watson, the Annalist, thus writes: "It was the residence of Clarkson (City Mayor) now altered on the Bank end. It was the office of Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, and Randolph, attorney Genl. (both, in the fever of 1793). It was still later the residence of John F. Watson, [the annalist], while cashier; and there, in the front second story chamber (North end,) he wrote out in one summer, his Annals of Philadelphia; rising at four [o'clock] and ending at eight [o'clock], A.M."
Description
Exterior view of the Bank of Germantown. Built circa 1745, the building housed the bank from 1825 to 1868. Also known as the Clarkson-Watson House, it served as the home of Matthew Clarkson 1780-95 and of John Fanning Watson, the cashier of the bank, 1825-1847. Image includes partial view of adjoining residences., Title and date from Poulson inscription on mount and photograph., 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 75. 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., Also included in an annotated album containing twenty photographs by Richards entitled "Pictorial Views of Houses & Places in Germantown yr 1859." (LCP 66037.D.17), Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
April 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - N [(3)2526.F.75 (Poulson)]
The Poulson mansion. Lately no. 106 Chestnut Street, now No. 310. [graphic] / Photograph by Richards.
Title
The Poulson mansion. Lately no. 106 Chestnut Street, now No. 310
Description
View looking east showing the 300 block of Chestnut Street, including the former residence of Zachariah Poulson, editor, publisher, and Library Company of Philadelphia librarian, at 310 Chestnut. Building tenanted by A. Bachmann & Co.'s confectionery, the United States Journal office, and Meadows & Co., manufacturers of silverware. Also shows the office of Peterson's Ladies National Magazine (306 Chestnut); James B. Chandler's Steam Power Printing Office, John W. Harper, watch importer, Carrow, Thibault & Co., jewelry manufacturer, and Goodyear's rubber warehouse (308 Chestnut); and F.W. Melizet & Co., commission merchants (312 Chestnut). Signage and merchandise displays adorn the storefronts and store front windows. View also includes a horse-drawn wagon and carriage., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., 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 72. 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., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
May 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - P [(3)2526.F.72 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f72.jpg

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