Details
Creator W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Place, George Gordon, architect.
Title Church of St. James the Less, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date ca. 1862
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 7 in.)
Description Exterior view showing the Gothic-style Protestant Episcopal church built 1846-1850 after the designs of English architect G.G. Place on the 3200 block of West Clearfield Street near Laurel Hill 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.
Notes Title printed on mount.
Yellow paper mount with square corners.
Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Subject Church of St. James the Less (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Clearfield Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West -- 3200-3230.
East Falls (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Place, George Gordon, architect.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Langenheim - Religion [(4)1322.F.85e]
Accession number (4)1322.F.85e