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Contributor Rotograph Co., printer
Title Boehm’s Reformed Church, founded Feb. 3, 1747, Boehm’s manse, the Kirkview, Edgar Vincent Loucks, minister. [graphic].
Publisher New York : The Rotograph Co
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1906
Date [ca. 1906]
Physical Description 1 print : collotype ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (5.5 x 3.5 in.) (postcard format)
Description Postcard depicting a vignette portrait of the church’s minister Edgar Vincent Loucks between views of Boehm’s Church constructed in 1818 at 571 Penllyn Blue Bell Pike and the parsonage, Kirkview, in Blue Bell, Pa. In the left, shows the front façade of the stone church with stained glass windows and a spire. A wrought iron fence surrounds the building. In the center is a forward-facing portrait of Loucks, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a tie, and a jacket. In the right is the three-story parsonage with a covered porch. The Church was founded by John Philip Boehm in 1740 and a building was erected in 1747 in Blue Bell, Pa. A new building was erected on the foundation of the older building in 1818. Extensive renovations, including the addition of the eighty-foot high spire with bell were completed in 1870.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Series number printed in left corner on verso: 66296.
Divided back.
Gift of David Doret, 2019.
Subject Loucks, Edgar Vincent, 1877-1951 -- Portraits.
Clergy -- Pennsylvania -- Blue Bell.
Protestant churches -- Pennsylvania -- Blue Bell.
Religious dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Blue Bell.
Geographic subject Blue Bell (Pa.)
Penllyn Blue Bell Pike (Blue Bell, Pa.) -- 571.
Genre Collotypes -- 1900-1910.
Postcard -- 1900-1910.
Printer Rotograph Co., printer
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.27]
Accession number P.2019.64.27