Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
Title Friend's Meeting House & School. Race St. East of 16th. [graphic] / J. Queen del.
Publisher Philadelphia : P. S. Duval & Son's lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date [1860]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph; 15 x 23 cm. (5.5 x 9 in.)
Description View showing two large brick buildings built circa 1856 and occupied by the Race Street Meeting House (center) and Friend's Central School (left) at the southwest corner of Fifteenth and Race Streets (1520 Race Street). Friends enter the meeting house and gather in front of the wrought iron fence lining the grounds. The meeting house, the second one for the Hicksites (separation in 1827), was built in response to the women's meeting's request for a larger and safer meeting space than the first Hicksite meetinghouse at Fifth and Cherry streets. The Race Street side of the building was used by the monthly meeting and the Cherry Street side by the Yearly Meeting. Race Street was the site of the Hicksite Philadelphia Yearly Meeting between 1857 and 1955. Friends’ Central School, established in 1845, was located at the southwest corner of Fifteenth and Race streets from 1857 to 1925.
Notes Published in Ezra Michener's A retrospect of early Quakerism. (Philadelphia: T. Elwood Zell, 1860), frontispiece. [Ao 10 16587.O].
One of prints (P.9830.18) gift of Jay Snider.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 281a
Subject Race Street Meeting House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Friends' meeting houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Race Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1520.
Cherry Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1501.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Stack | Stack Ao 10 16587.O, frontispiece and P.9830.18
Accession number 16587.O, frontispiece
P.9830.18