Creator |
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer. |
Contributor |
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector. |
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Place, George Gordon, architect. |
Title |
Church of St. James the Less (Episcopal.) Rector Rev. A. Tenbrueck [graphic] : Ridge Avenue, near Laurel Hill - Falls Schl.
/ McClees.
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Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1855 |
Date |
1855 |
Physical Description |
1 photographic print: salted paper; 16 x 14 cm.(6.25 x 5.5 in.) |
Description |
View showing the Gothic-style Protestant Episcopal church built 1846-1850 after the designs of English architect George Gordon
Place at 3200-3230 West Clearfield Street in East Falls near Laurel Hill Cemetery. Also shows the bells in the church spire
and tombstones in the church cemetery. The Ecclesiological Society, a British church architecture society, provided the plans
for the church to be recreated in the style of a 13th-century English country parish.
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Notes |
Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on accompanying label. |
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Retrospective conversion record: original entry,edited. |
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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 67. 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.
|
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McClees 1855-11. |
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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 #87.
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Biographical / historical note |
McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views
of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
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Subject |
Church of St. James the Less (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Episcopal churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Tombs & sepulchral monuments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
Geographic subject |
Clearfield Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West -- 3200. |
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East Falls (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
Genre |
Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860. |
Associated name |
Place, George Gordon, architect. |
Provenance |
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Churches and meetinghouses [(5)2526.F.10b] |
Accession number |
(5)2526.F.10b |