Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
Title Friend's Meeting House. Race Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] / J. Queen del.
Publisher Philadelphia : P. S. Duval & Son's lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date [1860]
Physical Description 2 prints : lithograph; 15 x 23 cm. (5.5 x 9 in.)
Description View showing the Race Street facade of the large brick building 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). A wrought-iron fence encloses the property and the date marker "1856" is visible near the roof of the building. Friends are visible entering and on the grounds of the meeting house. Also shows pedestrians on the sidewalk, a brick wall with trellis attached to the fencing, and a neighboring building. 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 Published in Ezra Michener's A retrospect of early Quakerism. (Philadelphia: T. Elwood Zell, 1860), opp. p, 53. [Ao 10 16587.O]
One of prints (P.9830.19) gift of Jay Snider.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 281
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| Print Department| BW - Churches & Meetinghouses - F [P.9507 and P.9830.19]
Accession number P.9507
P.9830.19