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The Young Men's Christian Association [certificate] [graphic].
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Contributor
Ketterlinus Printing House, printer.
Title
The Young Men's Christian Association [certificate] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia: Ketterlinus Printing House
Date
[ca. 1877]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone, mounted on paper; 62 x 49 cm.(24.5 x 19.25 in.) overall.
Description
Life membership certificate containing an exterior view of the YMCA building building erected 1875-1877 after the designs of Addison Hutton at the southeast corner of Fifteenth and Chestnut streets for the branch of the Christian voluntary organization founded in 1854. View contains street and pedestrian traffic. Also contains a border shaped like a frame with ornamented cornices, and banners inscribed with Bible quotations referring to young men, wisdom, and love. Quotes include I John 2:14; Prov. 11.30; Zech. 2.4; and John 13:35.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Issued to John R. Whitney on October 23, 1878. Signed Frances W. Kennedy, Treas. and John Wanamaker, Prest.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 869
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Young
Subject
Young Men's Christian Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Buildings.
Young Men's Christian associations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Llithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Certificates -- 1870-1880.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania| Print Department| HSP at LCP| HSP Certificates - Young
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