Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor Duval, Williams & Duval, printer.
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, architect.
Title First Baptist Church of West Phila. Philadelphia. [graphic] / J. Queen del.; Samuel Sloan, archt.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lith. Duval, Williams & Duval
Date [ca. 1860]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone and hand-colored; 64 x 50 cm.(25.25 x 19.75 in.)
Description Exterior view of the Gothic-style church built 1860-1863 after the designs of Samuel Sloan at Thirty-sixth and Chestnut streets. Also shows an adjacent gothic-style building and well-dressed pedestrian traffic. Traffic includes a couple crossing the street, two men conversing at the street corner; and children with chaperones, and striding hand in hand.
Is referenced by Wainwright 129
Notes Manuscript note on recto: With kind regards of William W. Keene.
Manuscript notes on recto: Dimensions Main Building 60 ft x 102 (exclusive of tower and buttresses); Chapel 42 x 81.6; Height of wall at the flank 27 ft; [Height of wall at the] apex 75 ft; [Height of tower] 85 ft; [Height of tower] and spire 172 ft.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 257
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 13 W 519
Lower right corner missing.
Subject First Baptist Church of West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Baptist churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, architect.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 13 W 519