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]
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]
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]
Kennedy and Lucas, operated by David Kennedy and William B. Lucas, printed the city's first commercial lithographs, a series of church subjects drawn by W.L. Breton, probably including "Mother Bethel.", Exterior view of the rough cast second edifice of the African American church at 125 South 6th Street. Pedestrians and church attendees, predominately women, stroll the sidewalk and enter the house of worship adorned with a simple stone tablet inscribed, "Bethel Church." Known as "Mother Bethel," the church was formed from black congregants discriminated against by the Methodist Episcopal Church. The 1805 building, the site of the first convention of the Unified African Methodist Episcopal Church, stood until 1841 when a third building was erected on the site.
Creator
Breton, William L., artist., creator
Date
July 1829.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W026.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W26 [7500.F]
