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Title: St. Veronica's Church, Philadelphia, Penna
Description: View showing St. Veronica's frame chapel and rectory at Second and Butler Streets. Includes male pedestrians on the sidewalk and a man in church garb standing on the porch of the rectory. This parish outgrew this chapel, situated across from the New Cathedral Cemetery, and moved in 1892 to a newly constructed church at northeast corner of Sixth and Tioga Streets., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 235, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Veronica
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Veronica

Title: St. James Catholic Church West_Philadephia in progress of erection for Rev. J. V. O'Keeffe
Description: Exterior view of the church, also known as St. James the Greater, built 1850-1852 at 3728 Chestnut Street. Includes a church tower never completed on the final structure. Demolished in 1881., Title printed on mount., Inscribed on verso: Catholic., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 708, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 131 Sa 23a
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 131 Sa 23a

Title: St. James Church. West Philada Rev. F. P. O'Neill, Pastor
Description: View showing the stone edifice of St. James Church, the church's first building, constructed in 1851 after the designs of John T. Mahoney at the southeast corner of Thirty-eighth and Chestnut Streets and two adjacent structures, possibly the church rectory and orphans' home. Shows pedestrians promenading on the sidewalks, including two women walking arm-in-arm along Thirty-eighth Street in the foreground. Also depicts a horse-drawn Chestnut-Walnut Street car travelling west along Chestnut Street. Reverend Francis P. O'Neill served as pastor of the church from 1875 until his death in 1882. Structure demolished in the summer of 1881 for the erection of the Gothic Revival church designed by Edwin F. Durang., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 233, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. James Church
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. James Church

Title: St. Vincents German Orphans Home, Tacony, Pena.[sic]
Description: Exterior view of the orphanage and grounds from the Delaware River. Shows boys, girls, and nuns lining up to enter the building. A steamboat, a scull, and a small sailboat appear on the river. Founded by the German Roman Catholic School Society of Philadelphia in 1856 in response to the large influx of German immigrants to the city. Ground for the building was broken the same year., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 237
Creator: Waeschle, John, lithographer
Date: ca. 1877
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Education [7544.F]

Title: Interior of Holy Trinity Church. Philadelphia Penna
Description: Confirmation and Holy Commmunion certificate containing an interior view of the German Roman Catholic church built 1789 at 601-613 Spruce Street. View looks toward the recessed altar of the ornately decorated church. Several candles line the altar in front of an altarpiece showing Christ on the cross. Interior includes a frescoed ceiling, religious statuary, a raised pulpit, smaller altars, pews adorned with lamps, and framed artwork. Also contains fan details in the lower corners of the image., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 119, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 132 H 748, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Holy Trinity
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 132 H 748

Title: St. Augustine's Church. Philadelphia, Penna
Description: View showing the second edifice of the Roman Catholic church built 1848-1849 after the designs of Napoleon Le Brun at 260-262 North Fourth Street. Building contains the steeple added in 1867 after the designs of Edwin F. Durang. Neighboring residences, a business adorned with an awning, and the church cemetery are visible adjacent to St. Augustine's. In front of the church, pedestrians, including a mother and child, stroll; a newsboy runs toward a parked carriage; and a man crosses the street. Also shows a fire hydrant, street lamps, and the church property protected by an ironwork fence and stone wall with doorway., Not in Wainwright., Contains inset titled "St. Augustine's School and Parochial Residence, E.F. Durang, Arch't." Shows the three-story school rebuilt in 1870 and the adjoining parochial residence on the north side of the church. Includes light pedestrian traffic., Reproduction of print published as frontispiece to Rev. Francis X. McGowan, ed., Historical Sketch of St. Augustine's Church, Philadelphia, Pa. 1796-1896 (Philadelphia: Published by the Augustinian Fathers, 1896), Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 230, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Augustine's
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Augustine's

Title: St. Bonifacius Church. Norris Square Philadelphia, Penna
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic church, also known as St. Boniface, built 1868-1872 at Diamond and North Hancock streets in Kensington. St. Boniface School stands adjacent to the church. An American flag adorns the roof. Pedestrians walk and greet one another on the sidewalk in front of the church and on the opposite side of the street in front of Norris Square. Two gentlemen cross the street near a parked carriage and another transporting two ladies. Iron work fences line the church and square in which trees are visible., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 231, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Bonifacius
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Bonifacius

Title: Our Mother of Sorrows, Cathedral Cemetery W. Philadelphia
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic Church (corner stone laid 1867, 4800-4814 Lancaster Avenue), and adjacent St. Johns Orphan Asylum (built circa 1852) at the east end of the Cathedral Cemetery. In the right of the image, the Gothic-style church stands next to the gated entrance with gatehouse to the cemetery. A small church outbuilding, trees and paths landscape the church grounds. On a hillside behind the church, the asylum is visible. Several children stroll and play under the presence of Sisters of St. Joseph on the tree-lined property. In the foreground, pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages and buggies travel on Lancaster Avenue. Also includes printed annotations for the "Cemetery Gate" and "48th St." Our Mother, built after the designs of Edwin Forest Durang, replaced St. Gregory's Church built on the site soon after the purchase of the land in 1849 by Bishop Francis Patrick Kenrick for the development of a cemetery and other Catholic institutions in West Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Copyright secured., Date inferred from variant duplicate in the Print and Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Inscribed in block letters below title: Original Plan - 1875., Philadelphia on Stone, PAHRC: United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Our Mother
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Our Mother

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