Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Contributor The Rotograph Co., publisher.
Title Old Dunkard Church postcards. [graphic].
Date 1900-1910
Physical Description 12 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Exterior views of front facade and side of stone church, showing roundel window, a large palladian window and entrance door flanked by a shallow portico. Also includes a view of the cemetery in the background.
Notes Contains 4 postcards printed in color and 8 printed in black and white.
Also known as Church of the Brethren, founded by Alexander Mack in 1708 near Crefeldt in North Prussia. Persecution drove the congregation to Philadelphia in 1719 and in 1723 the first Dunkard or German Baptist Brethren Church was organized in Germantown. The congregation originally worshipped in a building erected by Christopher Sauer (4653 Main Street) and then in a house secured by Peter Pettikoffer, who begged for the money to erect the building. Called Beggar's Town or Bettel Hausen. Building depicted in postcards erected in 1770.
Sheet numbers: 101A01, 101B01 and 101B01A.
Postcards issued by a variety of different publishers with the majority issued by The Rotograph Co., New York City.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Church of the Brethran (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 6613.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Printer The Rotograph Co., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Churches - 101]
Accession number Brightbill 101
101-a01-d
101-b01-b