Details
Contributor Packard & Butler, printer.
Koecker, Joseph D., d. 1889, architect.
Title Interior of St. Malachy's Church, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Packard & Butler, lith
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph tinted with one stone.
Description Confirmation and Holy Commmunion certificate containing an interior view of the Roman Catholic church built 1851 after the designs of Joseph D. Koecker in North Philadelphia. View looks toward the altar of the ornately decorated church and shows a large painting of the crucifixion behind the altar; other religious paintings; pews; small altars adorned with several candles; a frescoed ceiling; and religious statuary. Founded by Irish immigrants and the Sisters of Mercy in 1850, the church was nicknamed the "Church in the woods."
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 120
PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Malachy
Subject Jesus Christ -- Crucifixion -- Art
St. Malachy's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Catholic churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Interiors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Altars -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pews -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Religious architectural elements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Eleventh Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 1129.
North Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Baptismal certificates -- 1870-1880.
Certificates -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Koecker, Joseph D., d. 1889, architect.
Location Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center.| Graphics Collection. | PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Malachy