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Title: Church of the Advocate, (South Memorial), 18th & Diamond Sts
Description: Interior view of the nave, chancel, sanctuary and altar of the Protestant Episcopal church built in 1890 after designs by Charles Marquedent Burns., Inscribed in negative: 3339., Title from negative sleeve., Also known as the George W. South Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church of the Advocate., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.101]

Title: Church of the Advocate. Interior, showing pulpit
Description: Interior view of the pulpit and chairs of the Protestant Episcopal church built in 1890 after designs by Charles Marquedent Burns., Inscribed in negative: 3340., Title from negative sleeve., Also known as the George W. South Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church of the Advocate., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.102]

Title: Church of the Advocate. Interior, N. transept, Phila
Description: Interior view of the north transept, showing rows of empty chairs facing the stained glass windows that line the north wall of the transept. The Protestant Episcopal church was built in 1890 after designs by Charles Marquedent Burns., Inscribed in negative: 3341., Title from negative sleeve., Also known as the George W. South Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church of the Advocate., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.103]

Title: [St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Wissahickon, Philadelphia]
Description: View of the ivy-covered Protestant Episcopal church at the northeast corner of Terrace Street and Hermit Lane. The church was constructed in 1876 and enlarged twenty years later in 1896. Services stopped in 1968 and the building demolished in 1975., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
Creator: Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
Date: ca. 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.15]

Title: [Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, Broad and Diamond Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of facade of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church from the southwest corner of Broad and Diamond Streets, including stained glass windows and spired roof. Automobile and pedestrian traffic along the street are visible in the foreground, including a policeman standing at the intersection's stop sign. Church was designed by architect Theophilus Parsons Chandler, Jr. and built from 1887-1889. Additions and alterations were made to the building in 1915 after designs by architects Furness, Evans & Co., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Church - Broad and Diamond Sts. An interesting and somewhat attractive style of architecture. Creates a Russian atmosphere but the boldness of the Russian style as well as its solodity [sic] is softened by the Gothic windows. (find out denomination, cost, and seating capacity. Fill in a few clouds.). French Gothic., 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 143 [P.8513.143], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson143.htm

Title: Unidentified church with Ionic portico in a residential street
Description: Shows the church building within a row of residential buildings., Title and name of photographer from transcription of original Poulson inscription., 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 5, page 48. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., McClees 1855-9., 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: 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Churches and meetinghouses - U [(5)2526.F.5b]

Title: [4500 block of Franklin Street, near "Grandmother's Alley", Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the west side of the 4500 block of Franklin Street, currently Griscom Street, focusing on a two-story brick structure, which sits next to "Grandmother's Alley," an alleyway leading to the Frankford Friends Meeting House from Frankford Avenue. The clock tower of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church is visible in the background. The church was constructed in 1869 for the Seventh United Presbyterian Church. The Central Methodist Episcopal Church purchased the property ca. 1877 when the new church for the Seventh United Presbyterian Church was constructed at the southeast corner of Orthodox and Leiper streets., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.130]

Title: [ "Faith works" model sailboat in an unidentified church]
Description: Depicts a large "Faith works" sailboat model, with five smaller replicas in the foreground. The display is situated between two columns of the church, behind a wooden lectern. Potted plants and vases with flowers surround the display., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
Creator: Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
Date: ca. 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.85]

Title: Christ Church [graphic] / C. Th.
Description: Location: Second Street above Market St., Frontispiece to Edward W. Clark's A Record of the Inscriptions of the Tablets and Grave-Stones in the Burial-Grounds of Christ Church, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Collins, printer, 705 Jayne Street, 1864)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Uy8 96795.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898., creator
Date: [1864]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W061.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W61 [Uy8 96795.D]

Title: [Christ Church.]
Description: Oblique view of Christ Church looking northwest. Steeple not included in the image. The signboard and storefront of Mahood & Co. (16 North 2nd Street), is visible in the foreground. Church built 1727-1744 after designs by John Kearsley. Steeple built 1751-1754 after designs by John Harrison II and Robert Smith., Inscribed in negative: 2502., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.45]

Title: Morris-Littel House, Main & High St
Description: Exterior view of south flank and west front of house owned by the Morris-Littell family from 1776 until 1888. Dr. Christopher Wit (1675-1765) planted one of the first botanical gardens in North America on this site. The house was torn down for the construction of Germantown High School in 1915. Includes a view of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Germantown at the northeast corner of Germantown Avenue and High Street., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: January 30, 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.48]

Title: Christ Church, interior
Description: Interior view from the aisle looking toward the stained glass windows over the simple altar. The individual pews flanking the main aisle have gates. Above the stained glass windows and the altar is a large organ. Four flags hang from the second floor balcony, in front of the organ. Church built 1727-1744 after designs by John Kearsley. Steeple built 1751-1754 after designs by John Harrison II and Robert Smith., Inscribed in transparency: 4373., Title from transparency sleeve., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Transparencies - Hand [P.9259.173]

Title: [Harvest food display in an unidentified church]
Description: Depicts an autumn harvest-theme food display of Mother's Oats and Quaker Oats brands, along with toasted corn flakes, squash, potatoes and corn stacked in a pyramid underneath of a trellis decorated with corn husks. The display is situated between two columns of the church, on which are posted Psalm and Hymn display signs., Quaker Oats purchased Mother's Oats brand and its owner, the Great Western Cereal Company, in 1911., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
Creator: Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
Date: ca. 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.84]

Title: Christ Church Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1727-1744 at 22-34 North 2nd Street. Also shows pedestrian traffic., Originally published as plate 17 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 120.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush), Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb862 W644 Pl.17., Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W64.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: [Church of the New Jerusalem, 2129 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View of exterior staircase leading into west wall of the Church of the New Jerusalem. Includes view of three-arched walkway extending from main building. William Schlatter, grandfather of architect T.P. Chandler, was one of the founders of this church, built in 1881., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Not a monestary [sic] in France, or a church in rural England, just a peep at one corner of the New Jerusalem Church. 22nd and Chestnut Sts. Italian Gothic., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 191 [P.8513.191], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson191.htm

Title: Town Hall and Market sheds intersection of Second and Coats Sts., Northern Liberties, 1806
Description: Depicts Patterson's Church facing Second Street, which is divided by a brick market shed at the intersection of Second Street and Fairmount Avenue (formerly Coates Street). Also includes pedestrians and a horse drawn cart., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., LCP AR (Annual Report) 1975, p. 6-11.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.145], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc145.html

Title: [St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Spring Garden Street, south side, west of 13th Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Location: Spring Garden St., south side, west of 13th St., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [Wagner P.8]

Title: [Church of the Redemption, Protestant Episcopal. Rev. George A. Durburrow's Church.]
Description: Location: Callowhill and 22nd Sts., N.W. cor., Duplicate of (3)1322.F.73v. Date from manuscript note on duplicate., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: [August 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *phot. McClees [Wagner P. 20]

Title: North-east view of St. Peter's Church (Episcopal) Philada. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. L. Breton.
Description: Location: Third and Pine Streets., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, with corrections., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L. lithographer., creator
Date: 1829.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W253.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W253 [P.2148]

Title: The Catholic Church of St. Mary, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. L. Breton.
Description: Location: Fourth Street bet. Locust and Spruce, west side., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Reaccessioned as P.2203., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb131 S146., Built 1763.
Creator: Breton, William L. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1829.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W370.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W370 [6548.F]

Title: Christ Church Philadelphia. [graphic] / Lith. of J. T. Bowen.
Description: Originally published as plate 17 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: (4)1322.F.62b in *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Reassigned McAllister accession number., Exterior view of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1727-1744 at 22-34 North 2nd Street. Also shows pedestrian traffic.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846 artist., creator
Date: 1848, c1840.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W064-3.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W64.3 [(4)1322.F.62e]

Title: Interior view of the new church of St. Joseph Philada. (Founded 1733 - Enlarged 1821 - Rebuilt 1838 - Consecrated 1839.) Erected on the site of the old Church of St. Joseph, the first R. C. Church erected in the State of Pennsylvania. [graphic] / painted from nature & drawn on stone by A. Hoffy.
Description: Location: Willing 's Alley between Third and Fourth Streets., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790 lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1840.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W187.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W187 [P.2052]

Title: Emmanuel Episcopal Mission Church. Marlboro Street Kn. Published to assist in liquidating the debt upon the church, by the wardens. [graphic] / Drawn from nature and lithd. by T. S. Wagner.
Description: See 374 for interior view., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc132 E54., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Exterior view of the Episcopal church, consecrated in 1838, on Marlborough Street above Girard Avenue in Kensington. Shows pedestrian traffic on the sidewalk and a woman and child entering the side entrance of the church.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.) lithographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W110.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W110 [1322.F]

Title: The Emmanuel Episcopal Church. [Marlboro' Str. Kensington, Phila.] [graphic] / Lithographed from nature by T. S. Wagner.
Description: Manuscript note on recto: J. Gordon Maxwell in the pulpit., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc132 E549., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reaccessioned as P.2207., Interior view of the Episcopal church, consecrated in 1838, on Marlborough Street above Girard Avenue in Kensington. Shows Rev. J. Gordon Maxwell, at the pulpit, giving a sermon to a full congregation. Includes congregants turned to each other and a female congregant turned toward two men conversing a few pews over. Simple chandeliers hang from the ceiling near Gothic-style windows.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.) lithographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W374.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W374 [1322.F]

Title: [Church of the Nativity] [graphic] / N. Le Brun , archt. Philadelphia; A. Koellner engr. on stone.
Description: Title and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania [Ba 132 N278] contains printed caption on recto: This Church is to be built of stone, is 50 by 80 feet exclusive of the tower. It will cost $9,000 and seat without side galleries 600 persons. Subscriptions for its erection will be gratefully acknowledged by the wardens and vestry. Brethren will ye not aid as God has prospered you in extending the Gospel in the Church?, Exterior view of the Gothic-style Episcopal church completed in 1846 after the designs of Napoleon LeBrun at the northwest corner of 11th and Mount Vernon streets.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813 lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1844]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W066.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W66 [(3)1322.F.150a]

Title: Tabernacle M. E. Church. 11th St. above Jefferson St. Philadelphia. [graphic] / Lith. by J. F. Watson S.E. cor, of 4th & Walnut.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Watson, John Frampton lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1854.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W361.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W361 [P.2259]

Title: Exterior view [and] interior view of the temporary Hedding M. E. Church. Situated on the S.E. corner of Coates and Sixteenth Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic].
Description: Location: Sixteenth St.and Fairmount Avenue., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: 1854.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W116.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W116 [P.8538]

Title: The new Moravian church of 1856, S.W. Corner of Wood & Franklin Sts. [graphic] / Herline & Hensel Lith.
Description: Published in Abraham Ritter's History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell,1857), opposite page 176., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1857 Rit 14341.0 (Rush) and 75004.O hand colored., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Herline & Hensel lithographer., creator
Date: 1857.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W386.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W386 [Am 1857 Rit]

Title: The original Moravian church of 1820. S.E. corner of Moravian Alley (now Bread Street) & Race St. [graphic] / Lith. by Herline & Hensel.
Description: Published in Abraham Ritter's History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell,1857), opposite page 168., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.8 and Am 1857 Rit 75004.0 and 14341.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Herline & Hensel., creator
Date: 1857.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W389.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W389 [P.9830.8]

Title: Tabor Presbyterian Church, s.w. corner of Christian & 18th Sts. Philadelphia. Erected A.D. 1863
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic-style church at the southwest corner of Eighteenth and Christian Streets. Also shows pedestrian traffic in the foreground, including a couple, a woman and child, and a man strolling with two ladies. Church was organized in 1863 from members of the Missionary Association of the Calvary Presbyterian Church., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 740, Gift of David Doret., Sloan was a member of the Tabor Presbyterian church.
Creator: Watson, John Frampton, artist
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W362 [P.2004.44.31]

Title: [Mennonite Meeting House, 6119 Germantown Ave., at n.e. cor. Herman St., Philadelphia.]
Description: Exterior view of front facade of Mennonite church and cemetery surrounded by an iron fence. Includes a partial view of the adjacent dwelling. Church built in 1770 to replace the original log church constructed in 1708 on Germantown Avenue above Herman Street by early Germantown settlers. Considered the first Mennonite Church in America, founded in 1688., Inscribed in negative: 2443., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.36]

Title: [Dunkard Meeting House, 6613 Germantown Avenue.]
Description: Exterior view of west front of stone church, showing roundel window above the entrance door, flanked by a shallow portico. Known as the Church of the Brethren, founded by Alexander Mack in 1708 near Crefeldt in North Prussia. Persecution drove the congregation to Philadelphia in 1719 and in 1723 the first Dunkard, or German Baptist Brethren Church, was organized in Germantown. The congregation originally worshipped in a building erected by Christopher Sauer (4653 Main Street) and then in a house secured by Peter Pettikoffer, who begged for the money to erect the building. Called Beggar's Town or Bettel Hausen., Inscribed in negative: 3178., Title from negative sleeve., Incorrectly identified as the Mennonite Meeting House at 6119 Germantown Avenue in manuscript note on negative sleeve.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.85]

Title: Mennonite Meeting, Main St
Description: Exterior view of front facade of Mennonite church built in 1770 to replace the original log church constructed in 1708 on Germantown Avenue above Herman Street by early Germantown settlers. Considered the first Mennonite Church in America, founded in 1688., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca. 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.66]

Title: Dunkard Meeting House, Germantown. Main St. abv. Sharpnack, N.E. side, 1770, mother church of Dunkards or German Baptists
Description: Exterior view of west front of stone church, showing roundel window above the entrance door, flanked by a shallow portico. Known as the Church of the Brethren, founded by Alexander Mack in 1708 near Crefeldt in North Prussia. Persecution drove the congregation to Philadelphia in 1719 and in 1723 the first Dunkard or German Baptist Brethren Church was organized in Germantown. The congregation originally worshipped in a building erected by Christopher Sauer (4653 Main Street) and then in a house secured by Peter Pettikoffer, who begged for the money to erect the building. Called Beggar's Town or Bettel Hausen., Slide number 102., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: Negative April 1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.97]

Title: First Christ Church, Philada
Description: View showing the wood-plank building that served as the first sanctuary for the church founded and built in 1695 by the Church of England at 22-34 North Second Street. A wood fence protects the single-story, cabin-style building and the church bell hangs from the trunk of a tree fashioned as a bell tower. Wood buildings, including a dwelling, flank the church in front of which pedestrians walk. A woman stands in the doorway of the residence and a woman enters the gateway to Christ Church., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 315., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 258, Trimmed. Originally part of a plate of two images. Second image shows "Shippen's House, So. Second Street.", Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of "Illustrations of Philadelphia."
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Religion [(2)1525.F.51]

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: The Calvary Presbyterian Church, Locust Street, - Philadelphia
Description: View showing the Gothic-style Presbyterian church built 1851-1853 after the designs of John Notman at 1508-1514 Locust Street. The building includes two towers that flank a center with gabled roof and contains arched doors and windows. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including two women conversing on the sidewalk and a man entering the church. Adjacent buildings are partially visible. The church was completed for a dissenting congregation that included locomotive industrialist Matthias Baldwin who contributed $10,000 to the over $100,000 construction and land fees., Not in Wainwright., Probably by Henry Steinegger, a Swiss-born lithographer active in the West in the later nineteenth century., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 77, Gift of David Doret., LCP AR [Annual Report] 2002, p. 65., See Catalogue of the twenty-second Exhbition of American Manufactures... (Philadelphia, 1852), p. 19, entry 2909.
Creator: Steinegger, Henry, artist
Date: [ca. 1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Religion [P.2002.57]

Title: St. Mark's Church Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic-style Episcopal church built 1848-1851 after the designs of John Notman at 1607-1627 Locust Street., Church seal with motto "Sigillum Ecclesiae S. Marci Philada. 1848" printed below image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 711, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Upper left corner missing.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W347 [(5)1322.F.3a]

Title: St. Michael's Church
Description: View looking southeast at the Roman Catholic church built 1846-1847 after designs by Edwin Forrest Durang at Second and Jefferson Streets in Kensington. Some fashionably dressed parishioners converse on the sidewalk, while others walk in the direction of the church. Includes an enclosed yard (left), the cemetery behind the church, buildings adjacent to the church on Second Street, probably the rectory and/or convent, and a partial view of a street car travelling south on tracks running the length of Second Street. Church erected following the destruction of the first church building during the Nativist Riots on May 8, 1844., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, PAHRC: United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Michael
Creator: Inger, Christian
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Michael

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: The original Moravian Church of 1742. S.E. corner of Moravian Alley (now Bread St.) & Race St
Description: View of the first Moravian church building in Philadephia built 1742-1743 for the followers of Count Zinzendorf, a Bishop of the Moravian Church. Shows the hip-roof building with a front yard containing a path and a white picket fence in the background. Also shows a partial view of a nearby building. The church building, which was expanded and a parsonnage added, housed the congregation until 1819 and the erection of a new sanctuary., Published in Abraham Ritter’s History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell, 1857), opposite page 49. [LCP Am 1857 Rit, 75004.0], Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 530, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 138 M 797. HSP copy hand-colored., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:6, uncolored.
Date: [1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Churches & Meetinghouses [P.9830.24]

Title: The original Moravian Church of 1742. S.E. corner of Moravian Alley (now Bread St.) & Race St
Description: View of the first Moravian church building in Philadephia built 1742-1743 for the followers of Count Zinzendorf, a Bishop of the Moravian Church. Shows the hip-roof building with a front yard containing a path and a white picket fence in the background. Also shows a partial view of a nearby building. The church building, which was expanded and a parsonnage added, housed the congregation until 1819 and the erection of a new sanctuary., Published in Abraham Ritter’s History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell, 1857), opposite page 49. [LCP Am 1857 Rit, 75004.0], Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 530, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 138 M 797. HSP copy hand-colored., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:6, uncolored.
Date: [1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Churches & Meetinghouses [P.9830.24]

Title: The original Moravian Church of 1746 to 1820 with the parsonage, S.E. corner of Moravian Alley (now Race St.) & Race St
Description: Oblique view of the expanded Moravian church with the newly constructed parsonage built in 1746. Shows an elongated hip-roof building on a corner lot. Also shows two small frame structures on the south and east sides of the property. The church building, constructed 1742-1743 for the followers of Count Zinzendorf, a Bishop of the Moravian Church, housed the congregation until 1819 and the erection of a new sanctuary., Published in Abraham Ritter’s History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell, 1857), opposite page 52. [LCP Am 1857 Rit, 75004.0], Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 531, LCP also holds copy with misprint in title: 1742 instead of 1746. [P.9830.23], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 138 M 797b
Date: [1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Churches & Meetinghouses [P.9830.22]

Title: The original Moravian Church of 1746 to 1820 with the parsonage, S.E. corner of Moravian Alley (now Race St.) & Race St
Description: Oblique view of the expanded Moravian church with the newly constructed parsonage built in 1746. Shows an elongated hip-roof building on a corner lot. Also shows two small frame structures on the south and east sides of the property. The church building, constructed 1742-1743 for the followers of Count Zinzendorf, a Bishop of the Moravian Church, housed the congregation until 1819 and the erection of a new sanctuary., Published in Abraham Ritter’s History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell, 1857), opposite page 52. [LCP Am 1857 Rit, 75004.0], Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 531, LCP also holds copy with misprint in title: 1742 instead of 1746. [P.9830.23], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 138 M 797b
Date: [1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Churches & Meetinghouses [P.9830.22]

Title: Inte rior of the lower audience chamber of the Moravian Church, of 1746
Description: Interior view of the lower audience chamber of the first Moravian church building in Philadephia built 1742-1743, and expanded in 1746 for the followers of Count Zinzendorf, a Bishop of the Moravian Church. Shows the pulpit, benches, gallery, a ten-plate stove in the middle of the room, a large chandelier suspended from the ceiling, and an organ in the center of the eastern gallery, opposite the pulpit. The church building, which was expanded and a parsonnage added in 1746, housed the congregation until 1819 and the erection of a new sanctuary., Published in Abraham Ritter’s History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell, 1857), opposite page 55. [LCP Am 1857 Rit, 75004.0], Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 383, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 138 M 797c
Date: [1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Churches & Meetinghouses [P.9830.21]

Title: Inte rior of the lower audience chamber of the Moravian Church, of 1746
Description: Interior view of the lower audience chamber of the first Moravian church building in Philadephia built 1742-1743, and expanded in 1746 for the followers of Count Zinzendorf, a Bishop of the Moravian Church. Shows the pulpit, benches, gallery, a ten-plate stove in the middle of the room, a large chandelier suspended from the ceiling, and an organ in the center of the eastern gallery, opposite the pulpit. The church building, which was expanded and a parsonnage added in 1746, housed the congregation until 1819 and the erection of a new sanctuary., Published in Abraham Ritter’s History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell, 1857), opposite page 55. [LCP Am 1857 Rit, 75004.0], Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 383, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 138 M 797c
Date: [1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Churches & Meetinghouses [P.9830.21]

Title: Oxford [Trinity] Church from E. across pike, [Olney, PA]
Description: Glass negative showing Trinity Church Oxford, a brick building with a steeple designed by Frank Furness (1839-1912) in the Olney section of Philadelphia. A low stone wall stands in front of the church across from the street. A gate leads into the church cemetary and trees stand on either side of the wall. Church services were first held on this site in 1698 in a log meeting house belonging to the Oxford Society of Friends. Trinity Church Oxford received the deed to the land in 1700. The oldest portion of the church building was completed in 1711. Frank Furness designed additions to the church in the late 19th century., Photographer remarks: Fair sun. Undertimed., Time: 3:20, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: October 31, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1059]

Title: The new Moravian church of 1856, S.W. corner of Wood & Franklin Sts
Description: Exterior view of the third church building, with side courtyard, completed in 1856 after the designs of J. A. C. Trautwine for the Moravian congregation, established in 1742. Trees and an iron-work fence surround the Norman-style building. Neighboring buildings are also visible., Published in Abraham Ritter's History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell,1857), opposite page 176., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 504, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: hand-colored in Am 1857 Rit 14341.0 (Rush) and 75004.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 138 M 7972e, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:7, hand-colored.
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W386 [Am 1857 Rit 14341.O.opp176 (Rush)], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W386 [Am 1857 Rit 75004.O.opp176]

Title: The original Moravian church of 1820. S.E. corner of Moravian Alley (now Bread Street) & Race St
Description: View showing the new church building, built 1819 after the designs of master builder Joseph Worrel, near the original parsonnage on the 200 block of Race Street. Part of the front facade is visible behind a gate and courtyard extending between two dwellings situated in front of the church. Two men converse in front of one of the residences. Also shows Moravian Alley, i.e., N. Bread Street, and a partial view of a neighboring building in the right of the image. The building was sold in 1854 when the church relocated to a new building built 1855-1856 at Wood and Franklin Streets, Published in Abraham Ritter's History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell, 1857), opposite page 168., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 532, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.8 and Am 1857 Rit 75004.0 and 14341.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: [1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W389 [P.9830.8]

Title: The Catholic Church of St. Mary, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the rectangular front facade, red-brick Roman Catholic church built 1763 and enlarged 1810-1811 (Charles Johnson, master carpenter) at 242-250 S. 4th Street. Crucifixes, arched windows and entrances, and a tablet reading "Founded 1763 Enlarged 1810" adorn the building protected by a brick wall with iron work fencing and gates. Well-dressed men and women, including two women with parasols and a mother and child, walk outside the church property. Cellar doors jut out from the brick wall and a fire hydrant is visible on the sidewalk. Also shows the side of the church and alley in addition to partial views of neighboring buildings., Inscribed on recto: 1830., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 88, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Reaccessioned as P.2203., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 131 S146.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [ca. 1829]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W370 [6548.F]

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