Details
Creator Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), active 1857-1891, artist.
Title First old Presbyterian church. East side of Seventh Street. A few doors below Bainbridge formerly Shippen Street. [graphic] / B.R. Evans.
Publisher Philadelphia
Date 1884
Physical Description 1 drawing : watercolor ; sheet 26 x 33 cm (10 x 12.75 in.)
Description Depicts street scene with a view of the African American church built 1810-1811 under the auspices of the Evangelical Society of Philadelphia. Church stands between red brick townhouses containing the businesses of "Cheap John" and a lager beer hall. African American men and women walk the sidewalks and an African American man peddler sells his wares from his horse-drawn cart in the street. A partial view of the "No. 3 Navy Yard" street car is visible. The congregation, organized in 1807 to convert the city's African American residents to Christianity, formed under the leadership of former Tennessee enslaved man, and missionary and preacher John Gloucester.
Notes Title from item.
Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer.
Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11.
See LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History #178 for variant copy in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Purchased 1975.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject First African Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Beer halls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Peddlers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pedestrians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Shops & stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Street railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Seventh Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 600 block.
Bella Vista (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Watercolors -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Dreer, Ferdinand J. (Ferdinand Julius), 1812-1902, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Evans watercolors [P.2298.137]
Accession number P.2298.137