Details
Creator Town, E.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title Broad Street Independant [sic] Church, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Drawn & published by E. Town
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored; 23 x 25 cm.(9 x 9.75 in.)
Description Exterior view of the First Independent Church, later renamed Chambers Presbyterian Church, built 1831 at the northeast corner of Broad and Sansom streets. Also shows a partial view of an adjacent building and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians include a couple with a child and two men greeting one another. Also contains amateur ink-drawn and hand-colored modifications. Retouches show fire hoses in front of the buildings leading to firefighters using a hand-pumper to fight a blaze in the background. Some pedestrian figures also altered with firefigher hats and capes. The church, altered in 1853 to include a front portico, housed the independent congregation of Rev. John Chambers. Congregation admitted to the Presbytery in 1873.
Notes Inscribed on recto: S.A. Jackson; see p. 81.
Title annotated with a slash through the "a" in "Independant."
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 64
Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 4, page 85. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape.
Subject Chambers Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Presbyterian churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fires -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire fighting -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Churches and meetinghouses [(4)2526.F.85]
Accession number (4)2526.F.85