03158ckm a22004691i 4500 000137153 20230712140517.0 khobo 010316s1855 paunnn kneng u (UPvMLC)mrc04202212 10 pdrc1781jaEP ppl PPL gihc M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer. 44183 Church of St. James the Less (Episcopal.) Rector Rev. A. Tenbrueck [graphic] : Ridge Avenue, near Laurel Hill - Falls Schl. / McClees. 1855. 1 photographic print: salted paper; 16 x 14 cm.(6.25 x 5.5 in.) Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on accompanying label. 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. McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859. 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. Church of St. James the Less (Philadelphia, Pa.) Episcopal churches Pennsylvania Philadelphia. lctgm Cemeteries Pennsylvania Philadelphia. lctgm Tombs & sepulchral monuments Pennsylvania Philadelphia. lctgm Clearfield Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) West 3200. East Falls (Philadelphia, Pa.) Salted paper prints 1850-1860. gmgpc SP10 Philadelphia artists. Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector. Place, George Gordon, architect. Imprint PA. Philadelphia. 1855. Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. photo - McClees - Churches and meetinghouses [(5)2526.F.10b] (5)2526.F.10b photo - McClees - Churches and meetinghouses [(5)2526.F.10b] (5)2526.F.10b LCPD photo - McClees - Churches and meetinghouses [(5)2526.F.10b] (CPomAG)00141875 130276 130276 000137153 CONV 00 20051208 1945 000137153 BATCH-UPD 00 20051211 2156 000137153 20060120 1806 000137153 20060201 1533 000137153 MASTER 40 20060427 1218 000137153 MASTER 40 20060427 1219 000137153 MASTER 40 20060427 1223 000137153 20071018 1952 ppl PA. Philadelphia. 1855. Imprint Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector. Place, George Gordon, architect.