Details
Contributor Wade, Frederick J., printer.
Title Gloria Dei, [graphic] : Or old Swede's Church, Swanson below Christian, Philadelphia. The oldest church organization in the city. Founded 1667, five years prior to the landing of William Penn. Present edifice erected 1700, and has been worshipped in continuously from that time.
Publisher Philadelphia: Wade 230 S. 5th St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1878
Date [ca. 1878]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 21 x 25 cm.(8 x 9.75 in.)
Description Exterior view of the Episcopalian, former Lutheran, church known as Gloria Dei Church, built 1700-1703 by master builder John Harrison I at 929 South Water Street in Southwark. Shows a couple walking past the gravestones in the church cemetery and up the path to the entrance of Gloria Dei. Also includes neighboring buildings, trees on the cemetery grounds, and masts of ships in the background.
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 317
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Gloria Dei Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Episcopal churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Masts and rigging.
Geographic subject Southwark (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Water Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 929.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Religion - G [P.2007.28.16]
Accession number P.2007.28.16