Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
Title Friend's Meeting House. (Side elevation). [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 the side elevation of the large brick building, Race Street Meeting House, built circa 1856 to house the meeting, later known as Friends' Central Meeting (Hicksite) at the southwest corner of Fifteenth and Race Streets (1520 Race Street), extending to Cherry Street (1501 Cherry Street). Friends enter the building and walk on the paths surrounding a lawn in the foreground. The building, the second meeting house 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.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Published in Ezra Michener's A retrospect of early Quakerism. (Philadelphia: T. Elwood Zell, 1860), opp. p. 28. [Ao 10 16587.O]
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 281b
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, opp. p. 28
Accession number 16587.O, opp. p. 28