Exterior views of front facade of church built in 1904 by Rowland W. Boyle., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 in black and white., Sheet numbers: 50A07 and 50B10., 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
1905-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Exterior view of front facade of church built in 1899 after designs by Baily & Truscott on Dauphin Street at the corner of Twenty-second Street., Numbered 1015 on recto., Sheet number: 50A09., Divided 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. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Oblique views of Immaculate Conception Church chapel built 1875-1879 after designs by Ephraim Francis Baldwin., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 101A02 and 101B02B., 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
1900-1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Churches - 101]
Exterior view of Immaculate Conception Church built 1875-1879 after designs by Ephraim Francis Baldwin., Numbered 1030 on recto. Publisher's monogram on verso., Divided back. Post marked 1908., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1908
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.18]
Exterior view of front and south facade of church built 1901-1903 by after designs by Edwin Forrest Durang at the northwest corner of 17th and Morris Streets., Numbered 1018 on recto., Sheet number: 50A10., Divided 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. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Exterior view of Immaculate Conception Church built 1875-1879 after designs by Ephraim Francis Baldwin., Numbered 1030 on recto. Publisher's monogram on verso., Divided back. Post marked 1908., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1908
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.18]
Oblique views of Immaculate Conception Church chapel built 1875-1879 after designs by Ephraim Francis Baldwin., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 101A02 and 101B02B., 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
1900-1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Churches - 101]
Exterior views of front facade of church built in 1904 by Rowland W. Boyle., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 in black and white., Sheet numbers: 50A07 and 50B10., 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
1905-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Exterior view of front and south facade of church built 1901-1903 by after designs by Edwin Forrest Durang at the northwest corner of 17th and Morris Streets., Numbered 1018 on recto., Sheet number: 50A10., Divided 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. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Three-quarter length portrait showing the Dublin-born bishop and former Philadelphia vicar-general, attired in his robes and vestments, and seated. He holds the Bible in one hand. The back of his ornate chair is partially visible. Gartland served as bishop of Savannah 1850-1854., Inscribed lower right corner: 141., Contains clerical seal "Episcopus Savannensis" below the image., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Boell operated from 311 Walnut Street from 1860 to 1865.
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.85]
Three-quarter length portrait showing the Dublin-born bishop and former Philadelphia vicar-general, attired in his robes and vestments, and seated. He holds the Bible in one hand. The back of his ornate chair is partially visible. Gartland served as bishop of Savannah 1850-1854., Inscribed lower right corner: 141., Contains clerical seal "Episcopus Savannensis" below the image., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Boell operated from 311 Walnut Street from 1860 to 1865.
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.85]
Half-length portrait showing the archbishop, former Bishop of Philadelphia, attired in his robes and vestments, and seated. Kenrick served as the third Archbishop of Baltimore 1851-1863., Inscribed lower left corner: 142., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.86]
Half-length portrait showing the archbishop, former Bishop of Philadelphia, attired in his robes and vestments, and seated. Kenrick served as the third Archbishop of Baltimore 1851-1863., Inscribed lower left corner: 142., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.86]
View showing the German Roman Catholic church built 1789 at 601-613 Spruce Street., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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 149. 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. 1375-76 for history of church.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
June 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Churches and Meetinghouses - H [(3)2526.F.149 (Poulson)]
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
Exterior view of church built in 1890 by Edwin Forrest Durang., Also known as Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church., Divided back. Post marked 1912., 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. 1912
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Exterior view of church built in 1890 by Edwin Forrest Durang., Also known as Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church., Divided back. Post marked 1912., 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. 1912
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Shows the German Roman Catholic church built 1789 at 601-613 Spruce Street. View also includes street railroad tracks in the foreground., Photographer's imprint and title printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited ., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator
Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date
ca. 1868
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Religion [(4)1322.F.74b]
Exterior view of ivy-covered church facade, including several large stained glass windows. Designed by architect Edwin Forrest Durang, church was built 1881-1887., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Church 37" and Chestnut Sts. This would pass for a view of an old world church, either in France or England. Gothic., Duplicate: P.8513.28: same neg., 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 Wilson 216 [P.8513.216], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson216.htm
A land patent form., Second line of text, last word: Know., Printed on vellum; printed area measures 27.0 x 29.5 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Library Company copy completed in MS. for John Wallace, Jan. 28, 1754, granting him land in Somerset County; signed by Horatio Sharpe; with a MS. docket title., signed: Thos. Jennings clk., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731-1771
Date
[not after 1754]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1754 Balti 10210.F (Zinman)
A land patent form., Second line of text, last word: Know., Printed on vellum; printed area measures 27.0 x 29.5 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Library Company copy completed in MS. for John Wallace, Jan. 28, 1754, granting him land in Somerset County; signed by Horatio Sharpe; with a MS. docket title., signed: Thos. Jennings clk., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731-1771
Date
[not after 1754]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1754 Balti 10210.F (Zinman)
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]
Scene in front of St. Patrick's Church showing a man in a suit climbing an extension ladder attached to a fire truck parked on Rittenhouse Street. Firemen attend the ladder from inside the truck. Spectators, including an African American man, gather on the street corners near a drugstore and residence., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the people., Part of a series of five views of the scene., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date
[ca. 1926]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators [P.8802.42]
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
Printer's name from Wing CD., With initial imprimatur leaf., A second part, with title "A second discourse in vindication of the Protestant grounds of faith" was published in 1673.
Creator
Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699
Date
1674
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Wing S5560 Christ Church 135
