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Title: Old Pennypack Baptist Church. 1688 - 1925
Description: Interior view of pulpit and pews of Baptist church founded in 1688 by twelve men and women from England, Ireland and Wales. Original log church constructed by founders was replaced in 1770 and a third structure was erected in 1805., Considered the oldest Baptist Church in Pennsylvania. Originally known as Pennepek., Real photo. Paul - Photo engraved on recto. Undivided back. AZO stamp box with squares in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1925
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.15]

Title: Horticultural Hall
Description: View looking northwest on Broad Street from Spruce Street showing the east fronts of Beth Eden Baptist Church, built ca. 1869 after designs by Edward Tuckerman Potter; Horticultural Hall, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's headquarters on South Broad Street, built after designs by Samuel Sloan in 1867; and the Academy of Music built 1855-1857 after designs by Napoleon LeBrun and Gustave Runge., Title printed on mount below image., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Theaters and halls [P.9567.15]

Title: Memorial Baptist Church. N. E. corner Broad & Master sts. Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View showing the Baptist church, its cornerstone laid 1874 and built after the designs of Davis E. Supplee, at Broad and Master streets (i.e., 1400 block of Broad). Handsomely-attired parishioners arrive at the church entrances, walk on the sidewalks, and cross the street. Church includes a circular roof, steeple, and archways over the entrances inscribed "On Earth Peace" and "To God Glory." Trees flank the building., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 466
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Religion [P.9211]

Title: [Commemorative print] presented by the Roxborough Baptist Sunday School, New Year 1876
Description: Print containing several vignettes commemorating the forthcoming Centennial Exhibition of 1876, predominately views depicting exhibition buildings. Depicts the Main Exhibition Building, Machinery Hall, Memorial Hall and Art Gallery, Agricultural Hall, and Horticultural Hall. Views also show landscaped promenades and boulevards with street and pedestrian traffic. Also contains a view of the Roxborough Baptist Church; a liberty bell; lists of the "Officers of the Roxborough Baptist Sunday School 1876" and "Teachers of the Roxborough Baptist Sunday School"; and a decorative border. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 150, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Centennial [P.2006.31.11]

Title: The Roxborough Baptist Church
Description: Exterior view of the second church completed in 1830 for the Baptist congregation at 6305 Ridge Avenue. Includes the church cemetery protected with a post and rail fence in the foreground. Barren trees surround the church. Congregation organized in 1789 from Roxborough congregants of the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia. The church building was enlarged in 1832 and 1846., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 663, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 13 R 887
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 13 R 887

Title: [Fifth Baptist Church]
Description: Unfinished proof showing an interior view of the Baptist church during a baptism. Parishioners fill the pews and balconies. The men, women, and children look toward a small group of individuals as they stand in front of the pulpit before they proceed to the baptismal well in the center of the church. Many of the women wear ornate bonnets. Incomplete depictions include the well and parishioners. The church, organized by Dr. William Staughton, was built 1811-1812 after the designs of Robert Mills on the 800 block of Sansom Street., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 248, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 13 F 527
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 13 F 527

Title: First Baptist Church, Nicetown, Pa Rev. J. M. Richards, pastor
Description: Exterior view of the Nicetown Baptist Church at Bruner and Nicetown Lane. Shows parishioners, including men, women, and children approaching and entering the church from the sidewalk. An ornate fence surrounds the building., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 256, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 13 N 592
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 13 N 592

Title: Tioga Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Rev. Rutger Dox, Pastor
Description: Exterior view of church before additions and alterations were made by Heacock and Hokanson in 1926., Sheet number: 50B13B., Undivided back., 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: ca. 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]

Title: Master St. east from 15th
Description: View looking east on Master Street from around Fifteenth Street, showing dwellings, shops and churches, including a partial view of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church (cornerstone: 1873) at the northeast corner of Master and Carlisle Streets. Trees obscure most of the buildings, including most of the awning for a shop on the south side of Master Street. Also shows three boys sitting and standing on the sidewalk and in the cobblestone street in the foreground., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in black text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9229.4]

Title: Beth-Eden Church, Broad and Spruce, Philad'a
Description: View looking southwest from Lardner Street (i.e., Manning Street) at the east front and north flank of the Baptist church built circa 1869 after designs by Edward Tuckerman Potter at the northwest corner of Broad and Spruce Streets. Church organized by dissident members from the Spruce Street Baptist Church. Building razed by fire 1881., Title on mount., Photographer's imprint on mount., Faint manuscipt note in pencil on verso: Maggie from Harry 8/17/75., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Religion [P.9047.10]

Title: Broad St. Baptist Church. Philadelphia, Penna
Description: View showing the Baptist church at Broad and Brown streets for the congregation organized in 1844. Church surrounded by a wrought-iron fence and landscaped with trees. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a couple on promenade and a horse-drawn carriage. View surrounded by a border with ornamental details in the upper corners. Church sold in 1915., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 63, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 13 B 863, Accompanied by label printed: Broad Street Baptist Church. Built 1856., Landis, was a lithographer in Philadelphia, Newark, and New York who alone and in partnerships produced from the 1880s-1910s a number of views of cities in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.
Creator: Landis, T. J. Shepherd
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 13 B 863

Title: [Blockley Baptist Church interior, 525-553 North 53rd Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows the altar of the Baptist church built 1856 in West Philadelphia. Also shows a partial view of pews and a proverb inscribed above the the altar reading "Teaching Them To Observe All Things Whatsoever I Have Commanded You.", Attributed to McAllister & Brother., Title supplied by cataloguer., Unmounted half of stereograph., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.4x]

Title: [Blockley Baptist Church interior, 525-553 North 53rd Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows the altar of the Baptist church built 1856 in West Philadelphia. Also shows a partial view of pews and a proverb inscribed above the the altar reading "Teaching Them To Observe All Things Whatsoever I Have Commanded You.", Attributed to McAllister & Brother., Title supplied by cataloguer., Unmounted half of stereograph., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.4b]

Title: [First Baptist Church, Philadelphia]
Description: Interior view showing the altar of the Baptist church built 1856 after the designs of Stephen Decatur Button at the northwest corner of Arch and Broad streets. Also shows the pastor at the pulpit; the organ gallery; and five men seated and standing next to the pews., Title and publication information from duplicate (4)1322.F.5a., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: [May 1861, c1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McAllister - Religion [(4)1322.F.4a(v)]

Title: Baptist Church, West Philadelphia
Description: Shows the altar of the Blockley Baptist Church built 1856 at 525-553 North 53rd Street. Also shows partial view of pews and a proverb inscribed above the the altar reading "Teaching Them To Observe All Things Whatsoever I Have Commanded You.", Attributed to McAllister & Brother., Title and date from manuscript note on mount., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: [1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.4a]

Title: First Baptist Church, Philadelphia
Description: Interior view showing the altar of the Baptist church built 1856 after the designs of Stephen Decatur Button at the northwest corner of Broad and Arch streets. Also shows the pastor at the pulpit; the organ gallery; and five men seated and standing next to the pews., Publication information from duplicate., Title printed on mount., Paper backing pasted on verso., Yellow paper mount with square corners., Duplicate of (4)1322.F.5a., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: [May 1861, c1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.5c]

Title: The First Baptist Church, n.w. corner of Broad and Arch Streets. Philadelphia
Description: Interior view showing the altar of the Baptist church built 1856 after the designs of Stephen Decatur Button. Also shows the pastor at the pulpit; the organ gallery; and five men seated and standing next to the pews., (4)1322.F.5a accompanied by publisher's label describing the church building and the history of the congregation., (4)1322.F.5a unmounted stereograph., (4)1322.F.5c hand-colored and on yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: May 1861, c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister - Religion [(4)1322.F.5a ; (4)1322.F.5c]

Title: Tabernacle Baptist Church, Philadelphia
Description: Shows parishioners posed among the pews of the church built 1853 after the designs of William Boyington on the 1800 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the minister, presumably Rev. William T. Brantly, at his pulpit in the background and three women standing in the center aisle in the foreground., Stereograph on yellow paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount of stereograph., Accompanied by publisher's label describing the church and history of the congregation., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., See clipping describing church in Poulson's scrapbook, vol. 7, p. 75., One of the images [1322.F.5g] 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. 40., Arcadia caption text: From the early 18th century, Philadelphia served as a religious center for the American Baptist Church. This 1861 view shows the congregation of the Tabernacle Baptist Church that was constituted in 1848. The posed parishioners were just a few of the 1000 persons able to worship at the church, built in 1853 after the designs of New England architect William Boyington. Also visible is the Reverend William T. Brantly, standing at his pulpit in the background. When built, the church, located on the 1800 block of Chestnut Street, was the only Baptist church situated west of Broad Street., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: May 1861, c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [1322.F.5e & g], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.5f]

Title: Baptist Church, 5th & Buttonwood streets
Description: Exterior view of the Fourth Baptist Church built 1853-1855 after the designs of Joseph C. Hoxie. Edifice includes a tapering spire. Also shows neighboring buildings. Demolished circa 1970., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., See clipping in Poulson scrapbook, "Illustrations of Philadelphia," vol. 4, p. 4 for description of church., 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 #89., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: July 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [(6)1322.F.34]

Title: Beth Eden Baptist Church, Broad & Spruce streets, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Baptist church organized by dissident members from the Spruce Street Baptist Church in 1870 at 258-260 South Broad Street. Building razed by fire 1881., Title and photographer's imprint from accompanying label., Green paper mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Duplicate of P.9047.12., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo -Newell -Religion [1322.F.4c-1]

Title: First Baptist Church of West Phila. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic-style church built 1860-1863 after the designs of Samuel Sloan at Thirty-sixth and Chestnut streets. Also shows an adjacent gothic-style building and well-dressed pedestrian traffic. Traffic includes a couple crossing the street, two men conversing at the street corner; and children with chaperones, and striding hand in hand., Manuscript note on recto: With kind regards of William W. Keene., Manuscript notes on recto: Dimensions Main Building 60 ft x 102 (exclusive of tower and buttresses); Chapel 42 x 81.6; Height of wall at the flank 27 ft; [Height of wall at the] apex 75 ft; [Height of tower] 85 ft; [Height of tower] and spire 172 ft., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 257, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 13 W 519, Lower right corner missing.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 13 W 519

Title: Tabernacle Baptist Church, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the church built 1853 after the designs of William Boyington on the 1800 block of Chestnut Street. Church contains a tower and spire. A few pedestrians walk on the sidewalk in front of the building that is surrounded by a wrought iron fence. Trees adorn the church grounds. The church, razed in 1900, was the only Baptist church situated west of Broad Street when completed., pdcc00011, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:62
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 23:62

Title: The Fourth Baptist Church, n.w. corner of Fifth & Buttonwood streets, Philadelphia Length of house 97 ft 8 inch, width of do 62 ft.; Highth of do. 41 ft.; Highth of spire 188 ft
Description: Exterior view of the Baptist church built 1853-1855 after the designs of Joseph C. Hoxie. Edifice includes a tapering spire. Also shows neighboring buildings; a small enclosed garden with a fountain in the street in front of the church; and pedestrian traffic. Traffic includes a couple admiring the fountain and two men admiring the church. Building was demolished circa 1970., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 271, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 13 F 781
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 13 F 781

Title: Beth Eden Church, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Baptist church organized by dissident members from the Spruce Street Baptist Church in 1870 at 258-260 South Broad Street. Building razed by fire 1881., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Duplicate of 1322.F.4c., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: R. Newell & Co., photographer
Date: [photographed ca. 1870, printed ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Religion [P.9047.112]

Title: Spruce between 4th and 5th, south side looking west
Description: Shows the 400 block of Spruce Street, including Spruce Street Baptist Church (418-428 Spruce) built 1829-1830 after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter . Includes residential buildings adorned with ironwork railings in the foreground., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note on mount: Spruce between 4th & 5th south side. Spruce St. Baptist Church., 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 159. 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: June 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Spruce [(3)2526.F.159 (Poulson)]

Title: Dr. Staughtons, or Sansom St. Baptist church. Sansom south side east of Ninth Street, as viewed from the northwest, across the foundation walls of the new hotel on the s.e. corner of Chestnut and Ninth Street
Description: View showing the Baptist church organized by Dr. William Staughton built 1811-1812 after the designs of Robert Mills on the 800 block of Sansom Street. Also shows two men standing in front of the church, the adjacent auction house, "Herkness Bazaar, horses, carriages, harnesses &c" (s.e. cor. 9th and Sansom), and the foundation for the Continental Hotel (built 1857-1860). Church reorganized as the Fifth Baptist Church in 1824., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., One of the images 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 117. 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., See J. Thomas Scharff's and Thompson Westcott's History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884), vol. 2, p. 1309-1310 for the history of the church., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Churches and Meetinghouses - S [(4)1322.F.47e; (3)2526.F.117 (Poulson)]

Title: Looking west [sic] from Colosseum. Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Rooftop view looking south from the tower observatory of the Colosseum at the southeast corner of Broad and Locust Streets showing a partial view of the Beth Eden Baptist church built circa 1869 after designs by Edward Tuckerman Potter; a partially obscured view of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb (i.e., Deaf & Dumb Asylum) built 1824-26 after designs by John Haviland; and brick row houses facing Broad Street and Spruce Street. Originally constructed in 1873 in New York City, the Colosseum was dismantled and rebuilt in Philadelphia to exhibit cycloramas during the Centennial celebration in 1876. Removed to Boston in 1883 and stables built on the site by John Wanamaker., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., White mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Walker, Lewis E. (Lewis Emory), 1822-1880
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Walker - Views [P.8452]

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