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- Title
- [House and court on Fourth Street above Arch Street, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- Nighttime view of three-story brick house and adjacent courtyard., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The atmosphere of Soho or Whitechapel, London. As one of our friends said "A good place for a murder." It is a night picture of a house and court on 4" ab. Arch St. (Note reflection of St. lamp on walls up the court. The party residing in the house has been living there 60 years. Rent of houses in court - [$]9.00 per mo. (Tell about Pud's Poolroom across the street)., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.221], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson221.htm
- Title
- An accurate sketch from nature, of the exterior and interior of the house no. 39, Nth. Fourth St. Philadelphia, where the atrocious murder of Mrs. Rademacher was committed on the night of the 23d, March 1848, her wounds, and exact position when discovered
- Description
- Sensational print containing two views of the murder scene of Catherine Rademacher, sister-in-law of lithographer Augustus Kollner. Her husband, Charles L. Rademacher kept a bookstore and medicinal shop on the first floor of the Fourth Street address, and his residence with the Kollner family on the second and third floors. On March 23, 1848, the Rademachers were awakened by an intruder searching their bedroom who beat Rademacher unconscious and slain his wife. A broken knife, resembling a shoemaker's tool, but not the only instrument used in the slaying, was found at the scene. A recently released inmate from Eastern State Penintentiary and German shoemaker, Charles Langfeldt was convicted, and executed on October 20, 1848 for the crime despite his declaration of innocence. Upper view shows the murderer, dressed in black, including a top hat, on the rear shed roof of the red brick residence and store. He approaches an upper floor window with a shutter half open. The lower windows of the building are shuttered and a partial view of a leafless vine climbing an arbor (neighbor's yard) is visible in the left of the image. Lower view shows the bedroom and scene of the crime. The murdered woman, attired in a night dress, lies on the floor, face up, with blood surrounding her upper body. The victim has cut marks on her face, chest, and arm., Her husband lies face down on the bed. His head is positioned near the foot of the mattress. Blood stains his shoulder and the pillows at the head of the bed. Blood splatter is also visible on the wall above and the knob of a door near a dresser in the left corner of the room. Other furniture includes a chair on one side and a night table with wash bowl and pitcher on the other side of the bed. Near another door to the room, the leg of the murderer is visible as he flees through a window adorned with drapery., Manuscript note on recto: Langfelt, pdcc00017, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 9, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 19:11
- Date
- [1848]
- Location
- Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Castner 19:11
- Title
- Old Zion's Church, 4th & Cherry Sts., -- 1766 to 1869
- Description
- Exterior view of church built 1766-1769 after designs by Robert Smith, burned in 1794, rebuilt 1794-1796 and demolished in 1869., Also known as the Zion Lutheran Church and the New Lutheran Church., Sheet number: 50B14., Divided back. Post marked 1916. German text on verso., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Brightbill, George M., collector
- Date
- 1916
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
- Title
- Centennial anniversary of the Lutheran Church, southeast corner 4th and Cherry streets
- Description
- Interior views showing the heavily adorned altar of the New Lutheran Church also known as Zion Church (i.e. Zion-St. Michael's Lutheran Church) during the centennial celebration of the church built 1766-1769 after the designs of Robert Smith. Decorations include a large banner, garland, flowers, and wreathes. One view also shows pews., Yellow mounts with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., One of images [(4)1322.F.24a] accompanied by label misidentifying location., One of images [1332.F.24b] reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #172., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- 1866
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Religion [(4)1322.F.24a & b]
- Title
- New Lutheran Church, in Fourth Street Philadelphia
- Description
- Street scene based on a watercolor study by William Birch. Depicts Speaker of the House of Representatives, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, on tour with a delegation of Native American men across from the second edifice of the New Zion Lutheran Church, built on Fourth Street below Cherry Street 1795-1796. The first church building, erected 1766-1769 to accommodate the overflow of the growing German congregation of St. Michael's Lutheran Church, was rebuilt in its original form following a fire in 1794. Scene also includes street and pedestrian traffic of a loaded horse-drawn dray and cart; and a laborer hauling a barrel upon his back. Native American delegations visited the city to pay respect and to negotiate land treaties when Philadelphia served as the nation's capitol. Muhlenberg lead a tour of several tribal groups in 1793., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 6., LCP holds related watercolor study. (LCP P.9666)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, engraver
- Date
- [1804]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch, William-Views of Philadelphia [Sn 6b/P.2276.12]