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Title: St. Michael's. - (Fifth Street above Arch.)
Description: Shows the church also known as the Old Lutheran Church built 1743-1748 on the 100 block of North Fifth Street. View also includes several broadsides pasted on the brick wall enclosing the church. Church razed 1872., Title and photographer's imprint printed on mount., Lavender paper mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 37., Arcadia caption text: Like many of the churches built in the city in the 1700s, St. Michael’s Church (the Old Lutheran Church), completed in 1748, did not survive through the 19th century. Used as a garrison by British troops during the American Revolution, the church, visible here a few years before its demolition in 1872, shows the signs of abandonment. Following the relocation of the congregation in 1870, the church was razed from the 100 block of North Fifth Street.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Religion [(4)1322.F.25b]

Title: Old St. Michaels Church, (German Lutheran) on the southeast corner of Fifth and Cherry St. The grounds bounded on the south by Appletree Alley
Description: View showing the church also known as the Old Lutheran Church built 1743-1748 on the 100 block of North Fifth Street. Also shows the church and church burial ground enclosed by a brick wall and a partial view of buildings on Appletree Alley in the background., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Compass directions given in manuscript on mount., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 109. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Churches and Meetinghouses - S [(3)2526.F.109 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f109.jpg

Title: Old Lutheran Church, in Fifth Philadelphia
Description: Street scene showing Fifth Street with the Old Lutheran Church (i.e., St. Michael's Church). Depicts well-dressed white women in small groups, a woman and child, and men strolling passed the church, a horse-drawn carriage traveling down the street, and three white men conversing around a horse hitched to a post near two African American girls. One of the girls holds out her hand. Also shows dogs standing and running in the street. St Michael's Church, built 1743-1748 and demolished in 1872, was occupied in 1777 by British chaplains and used as the garrison church of the British troops during the American Revolution., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 7., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1800
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 7/P.2276.13]

Title: Fifth above Arch Street, westside, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the westside of the 100 block of North Fifth Street. Businesses include Garrigues & Magee, manufactuers of photographic and daguerrian chemicals (108 N. 5th); Tripple's Shoe Store (110 N. 5th), and William Seefeldt, musical instrument store (114 N. 5th). Several musical instruments are displayed in the window of the musical instrument store. Magee, a photographer, operated his chemical business circa 1857 to the early 1890s., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 20., Title from manuscript note on recto: 5th above Arch., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: August 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - F [(6)1322.F.81c]

Title: Fifth above Arch Street, eastside, Philadelphia
Description: View looking north on Fifth Street showing the eastside of the 100 block. Businesses include Koshland and Brother, tobacco store (136 N. 5th) and The Arbor, probably a restaurant (138 N. 5th). Tobacco store heavily adorned with advertisements, including a cigar store Indian. Also shows another storefront with display windows, possibly a gentleman's furnishings store., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 20., Title from manuscript note on recto: 5th above Arch., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: August 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - F [(7)1322.F.53b]

Title: Fifth Street above Arch Street, west side
Description: View showing the westside of the 100 block of North Fifth Street. Businesses include Garrigues & Magee, manufacturers of photographic and daguerreian chemicals (108 N. 5th) and Tripple's Shoe Store (110 N. 5th). Also shows the shadow figure of a peddler standing on the sidewalk near his basket in front of the shoe store. Magee, a photographer, operated his chemical business circa 1857 to the early 1890s., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Title from manuscript note on recto, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Published in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 99.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: August 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - F [(7)1322.F.53d]

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