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Collection: James McClees Philadelphia Photograph Collection

Institution: Library Company of Philadelphia (Department of Prints and Photographs)

Description: View showing the house owned by Jacob Graff in which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Signage covers the building advertising current tenants, including B. Crawford's wholesale retail fashionable clothing emporium; William Hicks, tailor; William Brown, clothing; and D.E. Thompson's Book and Job Printing Office. Also shows adjacent businesses, including William Jordan's Shoe Warehouse at 232 Market Street(pre-consolidation). The building was razed circa 1883.
Note: Title supplied by cataloguer.
Note: Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount.
Note: Manuscript note on mount: S.W. Cor. 7th and Market.
Note: Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Note: Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Note: *McClees 1853-2.
Biographical/Historical Note: McClees & Germon, a partnership between Philadelphia photographers James E. McClees and Washington Lafayette Germon, was active between 1854-1855.
Provenance:: Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Subject: Brown, William.
Subject: Crawford, B.
Subject: Hicks, William.
Subject: Thompson, D.E.
Subject: Graff, Jacob -- Homes and haunts.
Subject: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Homes and haunts.
Subject: Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Subject: Tailor shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Subject: Printing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Address: Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700 block.
Link: View full record in the Library Company's digital image catalog

Quantity: 1 photographic print : albumen mounted on paper; 31 x 29 cm.(12.25 x 11.5 in.)

Local Call: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *photo - McClees [8339.F.17]

Item dates: 1854

Documented Projects

• Graff House
  Client: Graff, Jacob
   

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MARKET ST (700 block)
Philadelphia, PA

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[Graff House, southwest corner of Seventh and Market streets, Philadelphia McClees & Germon patent crystalotype 160 Chestnut St. Philada.] (McClees & Germon photographer., 1854) James McClees Philadelphia Photograph Collection, Library Company of Philadelphia. Local ID #: 8339.F.17

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