Aerial view of Wings Field, Narcissa Road, Blue Bell, PA. Airplane hangars, runways and surrounding fields are visible. A small single engine propellor airplane sits on the runway. View looks northwest to southeast., Negative number: 19002., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
1938
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.19002]
Postcard depicting a vignette portrait of the church’s minister Edgar Vincent Loucks between views of Boehm’s Church constructed in 1818 at 571 Penllyn Blue Bell Pike and the parsonage, Kirkview, in Blue Bell, Pa. In the left, shows the front façade of the stone church with stained glass windows and a spire. A wrought iron fence surrounds the building. In the center is a forward-facing portrait of Loucks, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a tie, and a jacket. In the right is the three-story parsonage with a covered porch. The Church was founded by John Philip Boehm in 1740 and a building was erected in 1747 in Blue Bell, Pa. A new building was erected on the foundation of the older building in 1818. Extensive renovations, including the addition of the eighty-foot high spire with bell were completed in 1870., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Series number printed in left corner on verso: 66296., Divided back., Gift of David Doret, 2019.
Date
[ca. 1906]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.27]
