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[Twelfth Street Friends Meetinghouse, 20 South 12th Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
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Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer.
Title
[Twelfth Street Friends Meetinghouse, 20 South 12th Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1923
Date
ca. 1923
Physical Description
1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 10 x 12 cm. (3.75 x 4.75 in.)
Description
View of facade of Quaker meetinghouse from east side of Twelfth Street. People stand on corner. Automobiles are parked in front. Building was built 1812 with reassembled parts from the 1755 Greater Meeting House and was in continuous use until 1972 when it was dismantled and re-erected at the George School in Newtown, PA.
Notes
Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso.
Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Old meetinghouse, 12 St ab. Chestnut, W. side. Erected 1812. What a charming old place. Peace and quietude seem to reign supreme within its walls, while the jangle, the clatter, the sound of many feet, of many voices and of countless motors and cars, raise up all around it. See the contrast of yesterday and today in building. The old Quaker meeting house is engulfed in a well, the sides of which are the huge sky scraping monstrotomes [sic], called department stores, loft and office buildings. (more data). Explain old English trades guild system. They built for generations in those days. At the present time we build for a generation and feel well satisfied if our buildings stand even that long.
Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel and Susan Oyama's Philadelphia: Then and Now (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 96.
Subject
Friends' meeting houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Twelfth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 20.
Genre
Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Wilson 172 [P.8513.172]
Accession number
P.8513.172
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George Mark Wilson Photograph Collection
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