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Title: Second Presbyterian Church, city of Philada. Founded 1750. Enlarged 1809
Description: View showing the church built 1749 after the designs of Robert Smith at the northwest corner of North Third and Arch streets. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including two strolling women and three men conversing at the corner. Church was demolished 1837-1838 following the relocation of the congregation., Letter "s" printed backward in artist's imprint., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 687, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 862 B 756 #46, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:28., Upper left corner torn.
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: 1830
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 862 B 756 #46

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: [First Reformed Presbyterian Church, Broad Street between Spruce and Pine streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view showing the building of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church (i.e. Wylie Memorial Church) erected in 1854 on the 300 block of Broad Street after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. Pedestrian traffic, including a couple on promenade, walk in front and in the courtyard beside the church. Congregation organized in 1798. Church renamed in the early 1890s for long-term pastors T.W.J. Wylie and Samuel Wylie., Title supplied by cataloguer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 262, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 136 C 445, Library Company of Philadelphia copy, gift of David Doret, and acquired after completion of Philadelphia on Stone project. Digital image is copy at Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Trimmed.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 136 C 445, Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2018.63.6]

Title: Christ Church Germantown Phila
Description: Exterior view showing the Episcopal church later known as Christ Church & St. Michael's, originally built 1854-1856, at 29 West Tulpehocken Street. Also shows an adjacent white-stone residence with porch and street and pedestrian traffic. Traffic includes a horse-drawn cart, ladies on promenade, and a man strolling with a young girl who holds his hand. Building was destroyed by a hurricane in 1878 and rebuilt in 1880., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 118, Library of Congress: DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Christ Church, Stephen C. Duval became a partner his father's lithograph firm in 1857.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Christ Church

Title: St. Augustine's Church
Description: Exterior view showing the Romanesque-style Catholic church built in 1801 after the designs of Douglas Fitzmaurice Fagan at 260-262 North Fourth Street. Includes the tower built in 1829 after the designs of William Strickland. Several parishioners, including men, women, and children, congregate in small clusters on the sidewalk in front of the church. Also shows the adjacent church courtyard protected by a stone wall and surrounding buildings, including one with an awning. The congregation formed in 1796 under Father Matthew J. Carr to serve the large German and Irish immigrant community residing in the northern sections of the city. The church was razed during the Nativist Riots of May 1844., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 705, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 131 S 133, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 22:27, lacking imprint.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: 1830
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Ba 131 S 133

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. A woman and child enter the sanctuary and a couple and gentleman walk on the sidewalk. Also shows a partial view of the adjacent parsonage., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 712, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 132 S 146
Creator: Mackintosh, Roy, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 132 S 146

Title: St. Clement's Church. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view showing the Romanesque Revival style Episcopal church, including a never completed tower, built 1855-1859 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Notman at 2000-2030 Cherry Street. A man climbs the steps to the entrance of the building, a couple walks nearby on the sidewalk, and a woman crosses the street near a handsome horse-drawn carriage transporting passengers. Trees and ironwork fencing surround the church., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 706, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 132 S 136
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 132 S 136

Title: St. Alphonsu's[sic] Church. Philadelphia
Description: Certificate containing view showing St. Alphonsus, the Roman Catholic church completed circa 1865 after the designs of Napoleon Le Brun, at 4th and Reed streets (1400-1402 S. 4th) in South Philadelphia. A man passes the rectory located at the rear of the church. A parishioner descends the steps of the church. Also shows a neighboring townhouse and two other gentlemen walking on the sidewalk and in the street., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 228, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 131 Sa 22
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 131 Sa 22

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: Second St. Phila. PA
Description: Exterior view showing the Protestant Episcopal church built 1727-1744, including the steeple completed 1754 after the designs of John Harrison and Robert Smith, at 22-34 North 2nd Street. Shows the front facade with a sign that reads, "Christ Church" on the pediment. The steeple rises at the rear of the church. The sidewalk extends in front of the building, and a fence surrounds the property. In the left, trees grow in a line in front of a row of buildings., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator: Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.10]

Title: [Interior of the Old Trappe Church, showing a minister directing the religious service, Trappe, Pa.]
Description: Interior view of the Old Trappe Church, also known as Augustus Lutheran Church, showing a minister directing the religious service from a wooden pulpit. Members of the church hold hymn books in pews below. The cornerstone of the church was laid in 1743, during the pastorship of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, but was not completed until 1745. Purportedly the oldest, continuously used Lutheran church in the United States., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.179]

Title: [St. David's Church, interior view of altar, Wayne, Delaware County, Pa.]
Description: Interior view of chancel, altar and pulpit of St. David's Church, taken from the center aisle. An episcopal Welsh speaking congregation built the church from 1715 to 1717., Inscribed in negative: 3703., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.142]

Title: [Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St George, formerly St. Andrews Church, 250-256 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts church facade, including six-columned portico and pediment. Building was built from 1822 to 1823 and designed by architect John Haviland., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 8 ab Spruce. Said to be the most excellent example of Greek architecture in Phila., Now a Greek church, formerly an Episcopal Church [St Andrews]., 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 162 [P.8513.162], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson162.htm

Title: Unitarian Church Philadelphia. [graphic] / W. L. Breton.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, View of the front facade of the First Congregational Unitarian Church built in 1828 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland on the 900 block of Locust Street. Includes pedestrian traffic and a partial view of neighboring buildings obscured by trees. The columns supporting the portico of the church were salvaged from Benjamin Latrobe's pump house at Center Square. Church was demolished in 1885.
Creator: Breton, William L., lithographer., creator
Date: [1829]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W413.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W413 [(4)1322.F.99]

Title: St. John's Church, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Lith. of J.T. Bowen.
Description: Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 19 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., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: (5)1322.F.70h and 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:, Exterior view of the Gothic-style Roman Catholic church, St. John the Evangelist, opened for services in April 1832 at 23-25 South Thirteenth Street. Shows parishioners walking up the church steps and two women conversing on the sidewalk. An iron fence protects the building.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846 lithographer., creator
Date: 1848, c1840.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W346-3.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W346.3 [(5)1322.F.70h]

Title: St. Peter's Catholic Church of Philadelphia. At Fifth and Franklin Streets., Die Katholische St. Peter's Kirche zu Philadelphia. An der Fünften und Franklin Strasse. [graphic].
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 131 S149., Select link below for a digital image., Exterior view of the Roman-style German Catholic church, St. Peter the Apostle, built 1842-1847 at 1015 North Fifth Street after the designs of Napoleon Le Brun. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including two children holding hands.
Creator: Herline & Hensel., creator
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W096.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W96 [(5)1322.F.48a & 71a]

Title: [St. David's Church & cemetery, Wayne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.]
Description: View of the cemetery of St. David's Church in Radnor and border of Wayne, Pa., showing the side of the stone church. An episcopal Welsh speaking congregation built the church from 1715 to 1717., Inscribed in negative: 2462., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.41]

Title: [St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, S.W. corner of 3rd & Pine Streets, Philadelphia.]
Description: View looking northwest at the large Palladian window on the east elevation of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church. Built 1758-1761 after the designs of Robert Smith at 300-340 Pine Street., Inscribed in negative: 3310., Title from negative sleeve., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.92]

Title: [Stone church and graveyard, probably St. David's Church, Radnor, Pa.]
Description: Exterior view of unidentified ivy-covered stone church, with gravestones of church cemetery in the foreground., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.181]

Title: [Stone church, arched entranceway from dirt path, probably St. David's Church, Radnor, Pa.]
Description: Distant view of unidentified man and woman standing on either side of a dirt path leading to an arched entranceway of an ivy-covered stone church. Includes partial views of tombs in cemetery in the foreground., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.182]

Title: [Stone church, side view, probably St. David's Church, Radnor, Pa..]
Description: Exterior view of ivy-covered stone church, showing arched entranceway and wooden window shutters. Includes small gravestones in nearby cemetery., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.183]

Title: [Peace Jubilee parade, military men marching along North Broad Street near Columbia Avenue, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts an unidentified group of military men marching along North Broad Street near Columbia Avenue, looking southeast. A large crowd stands on the sidewalk and sits in the viewing stands near the Columbia Avenue Savings Fund, Safe Deposit, Title & Trust Co. Includes the spire of the Oxford Street Presbyterian Church in the distance. Military and naval parades were held during the Peace Jubilee, a celebration of the end of the Spanish American War of 1898., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: October 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.267]

Title: Baptist Temple Church and Temple College postcards
Description: Contains exterior views of Baptist Temple Church at North Broad and Berks Streets built in 1889 after designs by Thomas Preston Lonsdale. Temple College founded by Dr. Russell H. Conwell as a night school for parishoners of Grace Baptist Temple at the southeast corner of North Broad and Berks Street. He obtained a college charter in 1888 and three years later received the right to confer degrees., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., Accession numbers: P.9050.3, P.9050.5, P.9050.8 and P.9050.26., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1905-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [various]

Title: Old St. Paul's Church, No. 225 South Third Street, central office Philadelphia P. E. City Mission
Description: Exterior view of front facade of Old St. Paul's Church on recto, with bulletin on verso, including an invitation to a noon-day service for business men. Church served as the central office of the Protestant Episcopal City Mission in Philadelphia circa 1950., Undivided back. Invitation on verso. Dated 1906 in manuscript note on verso., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.93]

Title: St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church postcards
Description: Exterior view of front facade of church built 1763-1812 after designs by master builder Robert Smith. Includes an interior view of the nave and sanctuary. First conference of American Methodists held here in 1773., Undivided backs., Accession numbers: P.9048.245 and P.9050.4., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [various]

Title: St. James the Less, Falls of Schuylkill postcards
Description: Contains views of church built in 1846 after designs by John E. Carver and George Gordon Place. Includes exterior views of the church and adjoining burial ground, along with interior views of the nave and sanctuary., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 3 printed in black and white., The Ecclesiological Society, a British church architecture society, provided the plans for the church to be recreated in the style of a 13th-century English country parish., Accession numbers: P.9050.50, P.9050.59 and P.9050.79 - 80., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1905-1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [various]

Title: Market Square showing two old houses. Monument to soldiers who fell in War of Rebellion. Erected 1883
Description: Depicts Germantown's Market Square. Includes the Civil War monument, erected in 1883 by the members of Ellis Post, No. 6, Grand Army of the Republic. Shows the granite figure of a soldier at "parade rest." Monument moved to Belmont Avenue and George's Hill Drive in West Fairmount Park in 1909.The front of the Market Square Presbyterian Church is visible in the background, along with the Fromberger House, located south of the church at 5501-5505 Germantown Avenue., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: Negative March 6, 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.28]

Title: Chapel and parish building St. Clement's Church
Description: Reproduction of drawing showing the auxiliary buildings of the church constructed between 1855 and 1859 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Notman at 2000-2030 Cherry Street., Publisher's imprint on verso of P.2005.27., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.81c; P.2005.2.7]

Title: [Gloria Dei Church, 929 S. Water Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Exterior view, showing headstones in the cemetery of the oldest church in Pennsylvania, built 1698-1700 after designs by John I. Harrison and Reverend Andrew Rudman. The wings were added 1703-1705 and the tower circa 1733., Title from negative sleeve., Also known as Old Swedes' Church. Stands on the site of the first Swedish Lutheran Church in Philadelphia.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.26]

Title: St. Michael's Lutheran Church, Germantown, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of front facade, tower and cemetery attached to church built circa 1896 after designs by Thomas Francis Miller., First German Lutheran Congregation in Pennsylvania, organized in 1730. Church built in 1819 was used until the present church was constructed., Sheet number: 101B05., 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 [Germantown - Churches - 101]

Title: Trinity Lutheran Church, Germantown Ave. & Queen Lane, 1857. Steeple after design by Christopher Wren. Clock purchased by public subscription, was first "town clock" of Germantown
Description: Exterior view of front facade and steeple of church built in 1857 at Germantown Avenue and Queen Lane. Steeple constructed after designs by Christopher Wren., Photograph depicted on post card taken by J.F. Morsello., Sheet number: 101B06., 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. 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Churches - 101]

Title: St. Luke's Church and rectory postcards
Description: Exterior views of Episcopal church with parrish buildings constructed 1875-1876 after designs by Henry Martyn Congdon. Tower built in 1892. Also includes an interior view of the high altar decorated for Thanksgiving Day., Contains 3 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white. Also includes 1 linen postcard., Sheet numbers: 101A06, 101B05 and 101L01., 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: 1900-1935
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Churches - 101]

Title: St. Vincent De Paul R.C. Church postcards
Description: Interior views of the nave, sanctuary, vault and fresco paintings within St. Vincent De Paul Roman Catholic church built in 1849 at 109 East Price Street., Sheet numbers: 101A07., Divided backs., 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 [Germantown - Churches - 101]

Title: St. James the Less postcards
Description: Exterior views of church built in 1846 after designs by John E. Carver and George Gordon Place., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 50A08 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: 1900-1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]

Title: St. John's R.C. Church, Thirteenth St. above Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view of front facade of church built in 1900 after designs by Frank Rushmore Watson., Numbered 107 on recto., Sheet number: 50A09., Divided back. Post marked 1917., 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. 1917
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]

Title: Old St. Paul's Church, No. 225 South Third Street, central office Philadelphia P. E. City Mission
Description: Exterior view of front facade of Old St. Paul's Church on recto, with bulletin on verso, including an invitation to a noon-day service for business men. Church served as the central office of the Protestant Episcopal City Mission in Philadelphia circa 1950., Sheet number: 138B17., Undivided back. Invitation on verso., 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. 1950
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Organizations (By Name) - 138]

Title: Bethany Church postcards
Description: Exterior views of church built 1866-1868 and 1871-1874 after designs by Sloan & Hutton and Addison Hutton at the southeast corner of Bainbridge and Twenty-second Streets with portrait vignettes of the founder John Wanamaker., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 in black and white., Sheet numbers: 50A01 and 50B01., 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]

Title: Holy Trinity Church postcards
Description: Exterior views of front facade of church built 1856-1859 by John Notman. George Hewitt Wattson added the tower in 1868. Includes a 1929 New Year's greeting from the church depicting an interior sketch of the nave and altar on recto and a poem by Gerald Massey on verso., Contains 5 postcards printed in color and 1 in black and white., Sheet numbers: 50A03, 50A04 and 50B05., 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: 1900-1930
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]

Title: Christ Church, window
Description: View of stained glass window honoring George Elkins (1786-1839) in Christ Church. Depicts the Ecumenical Council of Nice called by Constantine in 325 A.D, which resulted in the Nicene Creed. A plaque honoring vestryman Edward Coles is visible next to the window., Inscribed in transparency: 4418., Title from transparency sleeve., Church built 1727-1744 after designs by John Kearsley. Steeple built 1751-1754 after designs by John Harrison II and Robert Smith.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Transparencies - Hand [P.9259.175]

Title: Christ Church, window
Description: View of stained glass window honoring George Elkins (1786-1839) in Christ Church. Depicts the Ecumenical Council of Nice called by Constantine in 325 A.D, which resulted in the Nicene Creed. A plaque honoring vestryman Edward Coles is visible next to the window., Inscribed in negative: 4423., Title from negative sleeve., Church built 1727-1744 after designs by John Kearsley. Steeple built 1751-1754 after designs by John Harrison II and Robert Smith.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.176]

Title: Window in Christ Church. Westernmost of the stained glass windows on the South Side. Upper part "Council of Nice, A. D. 325." Lower part "Origin of the American Church in Christ Church 1785."
Description: View of stained glass window in Christ Church depicting the Conversion of Constantine, in honor of James Mifflin, Esq. (1840-1895)., Inscribed in negative: 4425., Title from negative sleeve., Church built 1727-1744 after designs by John Kearsley. Steeple built 1751-1754 after designs by John Harrison II and Robert Smith.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.177]

Title: Christ Church window
Description: View of stained glass window in Christ Church depicting The Trial of Saint Agnes., Inscribed in negative: 4426., Title from negative sleeve., Church built 1727-1744 after designs by John Kearsley. Steeple built 1751-1754 after designs by John Harrison II and Robert Smith.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.178]

Title: Christ Church window
Description: View of stained glass window in Christ Church depicting The Ordination of the Apostles, created in honor of Francis King (d. 1870), Hetty T. King (d. 1876) and Mary B. K. Wainwright (d. 1896)., Inscribed in transparency: 4437., Title from transparency sleeve., Church built 1727-1744 after designs by John Kearsley. Steeple built 1751-1754 after designs by John Harrison II and Robert Smith.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Transparencies - Hand [P.9259.179]

Title: [Illustrated letter seals containing admonitions]
Description: Series of single and parts of sheets of illustrated letter seals containing humorous, positive, and negative admonitions. Illustrations predominantly depict modes of transportation, including a sailing ship, steam boat, and locomotive and animals, including a cat holding a rat, parrot, slug, frog, bat, and dog. Other images show a blacksmith, a well, rings, flowers, a house, a church, a couple in an embrace, and a bundle of wheat. Admonitions include "Good Eye"; "All's [Well]"; "Friendship, Love, Truth"; "Stop Your Clatter"; "Forget Me Not"; "I Bear the Hopes of Many"; "How I Love You"; "Contentment"; "Remembrance";"Fidelity"; "We Bloom Today, Tomorrow Die"; "The Road"; "You Deserve Thrashing"; "News"; "Express"; "Slow But Sure"; "Keep Dark"; "God Bless You"; "Are You Musical"; "Strike While the Iron's Hot"; and "Memory.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.177.1-9]

Title: New Masonic Temple, Phila. Parade of Knights Templar, Sept. 30, 1873
Description: View showing the Knights Templar marching in uniform in front of a large crowd of spectators standing on the sidewalk on South Broad Street on September 30, 1873 in connection with closing ceremonies of the Masonic Temple dedication. Includes the front facade of Chambers Presbyterian Church, originally known as the First Presbyterian Church, built in 1831 at the northeast corner of Broad and Sansom Streets., Title printed on mount., Copyrighted in 1873 by F. Gutekunst in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C., Distributor's imprint printed on mount and on verso: James Cremer, sole agent, 18 S. 8th St., Phila., Printed description and history of Masonic Temple in paragraph form printed on verso with distributor's imprint., Orange curved mount with rounded 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: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917
Date: c1873
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Gutekunst - Processions [P.9047.71]

Title: [Willett & Quinby trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Willett & Quinby at 416 North Second Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a child painting the face of the figure from a jack-in-the-box and an idyllic scene showing a flowering plant and rustic church in a field., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [P.9642.6] contains advertising text printed on verso by Coward & Co. prs., 123 N. Third St. Phila., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Willett & Quinby's coffee as the "favorite" coffee and "the best blended coffee"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Willett [P.9636.4 & P.9642.6]

Title: Locust St. east from Sixteenth
Description: View looking east from Sixteenth Street showing brick row houses on the south side of Locust Street and the Gothic-style Presbyterian church built 1851-1853 after the designs of John Notman (1508-1514 Locust Street). a pile of rubble sits in the street in the foreground. 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., Title on negative., Manuscript note on verso: 16th St. looking E. on Locust, Calvary Presbyterian Ch., Orange curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9208.6]

Title: Riot in Philadelphia July 7, 1844
Description: Discrepant news print showing a battle scene from the second series of anti-Catholic riots in Philadelphia in July 1844 that stemmed from the defensive arming of St. Philip de Neri Catholic Church in preparation of a July 4 Nativist party parade. Shows the melee around the city militia under attack from the Protestant rioters depicted as gentlemen in top hats and coats. In the foreground, a rioter picks up a brick as his compatriots fire at a charging band of militiamen near an illuminated lamppost. One soldier lays fallen on the ground as a rioter collapses over him. To the right, a mother flees with her children as men fight hand-to-hand in front of a group of onlookers. The crowd watches another band of militia attempt to guard the targeted Catholic church that is marked "I.H.S. A.D., 1840." In the background, rioters and the militia fire cannons at one another. In actuality, rioters gained control and set the church on fire by the morning of July 7, causing the militia to try and clear a neighboring street on which the combat and cannon fire occurred. The riot, which killed 15, was quelled by the state militia late that evening., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 650, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 892 B 921, LCP exhibit catalog: Made in America, entry #63.
Creator: Bucholzer, H., artist
Date: [1844]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 892 B 921

Title: St. Paul's M. E. Church Catherine St. above 6th. Philada Erected A.D. 1838
Description: Exterior view showing the Methodist Episcopal Church at 615-623 Catharine Street, set back from the street by a front lawn. A path cuts through the center of the lawn. Trees line the path, the street, and corners of the lawn. The trees obscure the view of the front facade, which includes the name of the church on the frieze above the doorway. Several well-dressed parishioners of all ages approach the church from the sidewalk and walk down the path to the entrance. Also shows a man at the doorway of the neighboring residence with rear buildings that border the fenced church lawn. An elderly man crossing the street. Congregation organized in 1833., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 715, Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.473/20. Digital image shows AKM copy.
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W350 [P.2008.34.14]

Title: Confirmations-Schein Es wird hiermit bescheinigt, dass [blank] nachdem [blank] in den Grundlehren und Pflichten der christlichen Religion gehorig unterrichtet, durch die Confirmation in die volle Gemeinschafte der [blank] aufgenommen worden ist, den [blank] im Jahre unseres Herrn Ein Tausend Acht Hundert und [blank]
Description: Confirmation certificate issued by the Reformed Church containing a scene of a confirmation class, and Biblical passages, a confirmation poem, and text in German. Scene depicts a pastor at the altar of a church attending to four men and a woman kneeling in prayer in front of him. Also shows curved stairways in the background and the baptismal font in the foreground. Bible passages include Isaiah 54:10, Matthew 11:28, Deuteronomy 29:9, Mark 8:34, and Rev. 2:10. Also contains an ornamental border., Johanna Dorothea Wollenweber is listed at this address in Philadelphia directories from 1854 to 1857; M.H. Traubel is listed at this address from 1854 to 1856., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 22.7 x 17.6 cm.L, Not in: Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 42, Library Company copy completed in MS. for Amanda H. Beitenman, confirmed March 29, 1857 by Rev. A.L. Dechant, in Keeler's Church, Frederick, Montgomery County, Pa.
Date: [between 1854 and 1856?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1854 Confirm 14331.Q (Roughwood)

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