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- Title
- St. James the Less
- Description
- Views showing the Gothic-style Protestant Episcopal church built 1846-1850 after the designs of English architect George Gordon Place at 3200-3230 West Clearfield Street in East Falls near Laurel Hill Cemetery. Images predominately depict the church exterior, burial ground, and individual headstones and monuments, including a nautical-themed grave marker. Also includes an interior view showing the church altar, pews, and archways. The Ecclesiological Society, a British church architecture society, provided the plans for the church to be recreated in the style of a 13th-century English country parish., Coral or orange mounts with rounded corners., Title and photographer's imprint printed on mounts., Five of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1868
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Religion [1322.F.87c-2; (4)1322.F.84c & f; 87a, b & d; P.9047.114-115; P.9134]
- Title
- Church of St. James the Less, Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior view showing the Gothic-style Protestant Episcopal church built 1846-1850 after the designs of English architect G.G. Place on the 3200 block of West Clearfield Street near Laurel Hill Cemetery. The Ecclesiological Society, a British church architecture society, provided the plans for the church to be recreated in the style of a 13th-century English country parish., Title printed on mount., Yellow paper mount with square corners., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
- Creator
- W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1862
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Religion [(4)1322.F.85e]
- Title
- Church of St. James the Less, Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior view showing the Gothic-style Protestant Episcopal church built 1846-1850 after the designs of English architect G.G. Place on the 3200 block of West Clearfield Street near Laurel Hill Cemetery. The Ecclesiological Society, a British church architecture society, provided the plans for the church to be recreated in the style of a 13th-century English country parish., Title printed on mount., Yellow paper mount with square corners., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
- Creator
- W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1862
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Religion [(4)1322.F.85e]
- Title
- Church of St. James the Less, Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior view showing the Gothic-style Protestant Episcopal church built 1846-1850 after the designs of English architect G.G. Place on the 3200 block of West Clearfield Street near Laurel Hill Cemetery. The Ecclesiological Society, a British church architecture society, provided the plans for the church to be recreated in the style of a 13th-century English country parish., Title printed on mount., Yellow paper mount with square corners., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
- Creator
- W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1862
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Religion [(4)1322.F.85e]

