Church of St. James the Less (Episcopal.) Rector Rev. A. Tenbrueck [graphic] : Ridge Avenue, near Laurel Hill - Falls Schl. / McClees. M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer. Church of St. James the Less (Philadelphia, Pa.) Episcopal churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. Tombs & sepulchral monuments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. 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. Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on accompanying label. Retrospective conversion record: original entry,edited. 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. McClees 1855-11. 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. McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859. PA. Philadelphia. 1855 Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector. Place, George Gordon, architect. Provenance: Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector. Place, George Gordon, architect. 1855 Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860. 1 photographic print: salted paper; 16 x 14 cm.(6.25 x 5.5 in.) Islandora:60020 Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. photo - McClees - Churches and meetinghouses [(5)2526.F.10b] (5)2526.F.10b Clearfield Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West -- 3200. East Falls (Philadelphia, Pa.)