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JAMES E. MCCLEES (1821-1887) Birthplace of Liberty (Jefferson House, southwest corner of Seventh and Market Street). 1855. Salted paper print, the image measuring 9x7 inches (22.9x17.8 cm.), the mount 15½x11½ inches (39.4x29.2 cm.), with notations in pencil in an unknown hand on mount recto.
Provenance From the Collection of William L. Schaeffer
A description of this image can be found on the Library Company of Philadelphia website: "View showing the house owned by Jacob Graff in which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Signage adorns the building advertising current tenants William Brown, clothing, and D.E. Thompson's Book and Job Printing Office. Also shows an awning reading 'Birth Place of Liberty' attached to the building; playbills on display; a hitching post; and a view of the adjacent business, William Jordan's Shoe Warehouse at 232 Market Street. The building was razed circa 1883."
McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
