Details
Contributor Linfoot, Benjamin, 1840-1912, printer.
Fraser, Furness & Hewitt, architect.
Title Synagogue for the Congregation Rodef Sholam [sic], s.e. corner Broad & Mount Vernon Strts. Phila. [graphic] / Fraser, Furness, & Hewitt Archts. Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia: Ben [Linfoot] lith
Date 1869
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph mounted on paper; 63 x 44 cm. (24.75 x 17.25 in.)
Description Exterior view showing the Moorish-style synagogue built 1869 after the designs of Fraser, Furness, & Hewitt. In the foreground, couples and families, including children tugging eagerly at their guardians in site of something out of view, walk in the street. Building razed in 1925. Congregation was founded in 1795 as the first Ashkenazic synagogue established in the Western Hemisphere.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 733
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 133 R 687
Subject Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Buildings.
Synagogues -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Fraser, Furness & Hewitt, architect.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 133 R 687