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Title: Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Philada. [graphic] : Founded in 1794 by the Revd. Richard Allen, Bishop of the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. Rebuilt in 1805. / Drawn on Stone by W.L. Breton.
Description: 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]

Title: New Masonic Temple, Philadelphia
Description: Titled views, including "Main entrance" and "Dedicated September 26, 1873," show the entrance on the west front of the temple flanked by two gaslights and a rooftop view looking southeast at the entire west front of the temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of Freemason and Philadelphia architect James H. Windrim. The Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church built 1869-1870 after designs by Addison Hutton is partially visible north of the temple and the City Hall construction site in Penn Square is partially visible to the south., Inscribed on negative P.8944.5: 2355., Labels on versos contain printed description and history of temple under heading "Masonic Temple, Philadelphia" within a decorative border., Orange mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Associations [P.8944.5 and P.8944.8]

Title: North-east view of St. Peter's Church (Episcopal) Philada
Description: Exterior view of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1758-1761 after the designs of Robert Smith at 300-340 Pine Street. The cupola replaced in 1842 by a tower and steeple adorns the building that is surrounded by a brick wall and ironwork fencing that exposes the church cemetery. Pedestrians, prominently women, and possibly parishioners, walk on the sidewalk. A woman street vendor with her table of wares sits near the wall at the corner. Also shows several trees on the grounds of the church and a lady attired in a broad-rimmed hat with veil standing on the opposite street corner in the right of the image., Manuscript note on recto: From the East., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 511, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edit., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: 1829
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W253 [P.2148]

Title: The Burd Orphan Asylum of St. Stephen's Church
Description: Exterior view of the orphanage (constructed 1861-1863). Founded by Eliza H. Burd as an orphanage for girls under the management of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church on Tenth Street in Philadelphia. Located near Cobbs Creek in Delaware County on the border of Philadelphia, the property is bounded by Walnut and Market Streets, and Powell and 63rd Streets., Published in George Smith's History of Delaware County (Philadelphia : Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1862) opp. 384., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 69
Creator: Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898, artist
Date: 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - education - Burd [P.9210.9]

Title: Saint Michael's Church, (Protestant Episcopal,) High Street, between Main and Morton streets - Germantown, Philadelphia
Description: Interior views of the church built 1859-1860 at 222-242 High Street. Shows the triplet stained-glass window designed by Lavers & Barrand, of London, at the eastern end of the church. Also shows pews., Stereograph on white paper mount with square corners., Title from publisher's label describing the church accompanying stereograph., Stereograph accompanied by manuscript note: Saint Michaels Church Germantown, Pa. Rev. Mr. [Jme Ruter ?] formerly Rev. Mr. Hammond., Retrospective conversion record, original entry edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: December 1860, c1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.92a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Bro. [(4)1322.F.91f & 92f]

Title: Rev. Francis Burns Missionary bishop of the M.E. Church in Western Africa
Description: Bust-length portrait of the African American deacon and missionary bishop to Liberia. Burns, attired in a white collared shirt, a white bowtie, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, sits slightly facing right. The African coastline, depicting buildings on the shoreline and boats in the water, is visible in the background., Title from item., Published in The Ladies repository (March 1859), frontispiece., See biography of sitter in The Ladies repository (March 1859), p. 129-132., Accessioned 1879., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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., Brady produced ambrotypes in his New York studio from 1855 until 1856, ceasing production following a lawsuit over the patent.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [March 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [5017.F.45]

Title: 130. City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., Masonic Temple in left foreground
Description: Postcard depicting a view of North Broad Street, Philadelphia showing City Hall built 1871-1901 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. and the Masonic Temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of James Hamilton Windrim. In the left, shows a partial view of Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church built 1869 to 1870 after the designs of Addison Hutton. Numerous pedestrians walk along the sidewalks and across the street., Title from item., Date from the publication series number., Series number printed in right corner on recto: 3A-H575., Divided back., Gift of David Doret, 2019., Curt Teich (1877-1974) founded the Curt Teich Company in Chicago in 1898 and began producing linen postcards in the 1930s.
Date: 1933
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.28]

Title: Church, Broad & Arch Sts., Phila. (Methodist) New Masonic Temple in the background
Description: View looking southeast at the Methodist Episcopal church constructed 1869-70 after designs by Addison Hutton. Shows the west front of the adjacent Masonic Temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of James H. Windrim, a coach parked in the right foreground, and the liquor store operated by Charles P. Collins at the northeast corner of Broad and Arch Streets., Title from two different manuscript notes on verso., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Religion [P.2010.6.18]

Title: Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church [certificate]
Description: Life membership certificate containing a vignette contrasting scenes of apocalyptic doom and religious salvation. Shows to the right an angel trumpeting salvation and wielding the Bible above a missionary preaching to a large group of Native Americans and a converted Black family kneeling and reaching toward the heavens; broken shackles and swords beside them. Opposite the scenes of salvation, a cross rises from the ground, bringing forth a river of redemption too late for the lost souls of a bejeweled "heathen" woman and a skull-headed man entangled by serpents. Behind them a temple, probably the Vatican, collapses to the ground. The Missionary Society, officially organized in New York in 1820, worked first to convert Native Americans and enslaved people before extending their missions to the Black inhabitants of Liberia in 1823., Issued to Eliza J. Hamilton on April 7th, 1846. Signed by John Whitman, President and Saml. Sappington, Secretary., Gift of David Doret, 2009., See variant *Philadelphia Certificates - Organizations - M [P.P.2004.46.1]., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Access points revised 2021., Description revised 2021.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia Certificates - Organizations - M [P.2009.26.1]

Title: Historical The plan for the organization of the Sunday School Union of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was presented by Rev. C. S. Smith to the Council of Bishops at their annual meeting in Cape May, N. J. August 11, 1882. The bishops approved of the plan, and the Rev. C. S. Smith was appointed corresponding secretary. At the General Conference, which met in Baltimore, MD. May, 1884, the Union was adopted as one of the general departments of the church, and the Rev. C. S. Smith was unanimously elected corresponding secretary of the same. The building now owned and occupied by the Union was purchased February 28, 1888, at a cost of $9,000. The building is situated on the north side of the public square in the city of Nashville, Tenn., and is a handsome five story structure with a solid stone front. The printing department was organized February, 1889, and is known as the publishing house of the A. M. E. Sunday School union. The first book ever issued by a Colored publishing house in the history of the world was issued by the Union, September, 1890, with the title, "Poor Ben." The first Children's Day to be observed in the A. M. E. Church took place on the 4th Sunday in October, 1882
Description: Print commemorating the ten year anniversary of the Sunday School Union containing half-length portraits of the president, and founder of the Sunday School Union, and three-quarter length portraits of the four regional queens of Children's Day 1891. Shows Bishop D[aniel] A. Payne D.D. L. L. D. President of A. M. E. Sunday School Union, an avid proponent of higher education for African Americans; Rev. C[harles] S. Smith. Founder of the A.M.E. Sunday School Union and organizer of Children's Day; Miss Amelia Boddy, Philadelphia, Pa. Eastern Queen; Miss Ida Jenkins, Independence Mo. Western Queen; Miss Mamie Pettiford, Franklin, Ind. Northern Queen.; and Miss Minnie Mabrey, Vicksburg, Miss. Southern Queen. The young women wear crowns, sashes, and flowers and hold scepters. Also contains a central vignette showing the exterior of the publishing house and a border comprised of flowers, ferns, and greenery. Children's Day was devoted to the interest of the children in the church, and included donations, special programs, and exercises such as original poetry, hymns, and African American history lessons., Title from item., Accompanied by original mailer tube containing label printed: Lithograph. Handle with Care. From the A. M. E. Sunday School Union Publishing House, Nashville, Tenn. *albums (flat) [P.2006.27b], Purchase 2006., 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: A. M. E. Sunday School Union
Date: 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Religion [P.2006.27a]

Title: Negroes and religion. Disciplina et regula ordinis flagellantium [Discipline of the order of flagellants] The Episcopal Church at the South. To the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America
Description: Copy photograph of an abolitionist satire containing a montage of scenes mocking the pro-slavery dioceses from the seceded Southern states absent from the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York in 1862. Probably related to an earlier pamphlet of the same title satirically "promoting" the policy that the church's African American communicants be treated as the South treats the enslaved people. A devilish figure with wings inscribed with the names of Confederate states, holding a "Testimonial" scroll under his arm, thumbs his nose and unlocks the door of the "House of Bishops" at the "General Convention." Figures pray at an altar near an animated preacher while stating, "We welcome our friends." A white man whips a bare-chested and bare-footed African American enslaved man, who kneels with his hands bound to a post. Two white women watch the events from the side of their dilapidated wooden house. During the Civil War, the Southern dioceses became the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America., Title from item., Date inferred from content., See related pamphlet Negroes and religion: The church at the South. Memorial to the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. (United States : s.n., 1856?). (LCP Am 1856 Neg 18399.O.9)., Originally part of a McAllister Civil War scrapbook of humorous prints and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886 [5780.F.52h]. Purchase 1999 [P.9758.3]., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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.
Date: [ca. 1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5780.F.52h; P.9758.3]

Title: Christ Church, Germantown
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: January 8, 1858-December 1, 1898

Title: Bayard, James, 1799-1880
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: December 8, 1848

Title: Milnor, Joseph Kirkbride, 1775-1828
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: February 20, 1798

Title: Duane, Charles W., 1837-1915
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: April 8, 1871-December 1, 1892

Title: Dorr, Benjamin, 1796-1869
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: June 2, 1848

Title: Porter, F. W.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: October 4, 1833-January 5, 1849

Title: Dupuy, Charles Meredith, 1792-1875
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: February 5, 1816

Title: Swanwick, John, 1740-1798
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: August 5, 1786

Title: Wilmer, Joseph Pierre Bell
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: November 6, 1857-May 1, 1866

Title: Dehaven, Peter, 1722-1815
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: September 20, 1771

Title: Goldsborough, Charles H., 1765-1834
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: June 4, 1831

Title: Church of the Messiah, Port Richmond
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: January 8, 1858-May 1, 1878

Title: Delany, Sharpe, -1799
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: April 6, 1769

Title: du Pont, Alexis I. (Alexis Irénée), 1816-1857
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: April 6, 1833

Title: Landreth, Lucius Scott, 1865-1919
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: March 7, 1914

Title: Thornhill, John, 1716-1783
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: April 6, 1769

Title: Milnor, John
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: April 6, 1769

Title: Broad St. looking N. from Filbert, showing the four churches on 4 corners of Arch St
Description: Depicts men walking and bicycling along North Broad Street, near Arch Street. The four "churches" near the intersection of Broad and Arch Streets are visible, including the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church, First Baptist Church, Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion and the Masonic Temple. Includes the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company building in the background., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 44., Arcadia caption text: This 1898 view, looking north from Filbert Street, is one of the last photographs of the three churches at Arch and Broad streets. Within the year the First Baptist Church (center left), built in 1856 after the designs of Stephen Button, would be demolished and within the decade, the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion (far left), built 1870-1875 would meet the same fate. The congregations would move further west in the city, pushed out by the commercial growth of the area as represented by the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company building (upper center). Soon to be lost from the city landscape were the Lutheran church designed by Frazer, Furness & Hewitt and the Baptist church, one of the earliest non-industrial landmarks to grace North Broad Street. The prominent Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church, built 1869-1870 after the designs of Addison Hutton, is visible to the right. It still stands in the 21st century despite several attempts to purchase its highly valued property.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: Negative May 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.149]

Title: Revd. Dr. Blackwell's house and residence until his decease, on the south side of Pine Street, between Second and Third Streets in the picture opposite the public street lamp Govr. John Penn's residence where the deceased, (in the picture), next east of Dr. Blackwell's. Both houses are still standing, in excellent repair and condition, this day, July 11th 1864. Govr. Penn was the grandson of the founder, W. Penn
Description: View looking west from Second Street showing the residence of Robert Blackwell, minister of St. Peter's Church and Christ Church, built 1773 at 224 Pine Street. Also shows the residence of Governor John Penn (222 Pine), the steeple of St. Peter's Church (300-340 Pine), children standing on the stoop of the Blackwell residence, a lamppost, and a partial view of a carriage., Dates inscribed on photograph., Compass directions by manuscript note on mount., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Manuscript note on mount: (Vide opposite page.) CP., Originally part of a Philadelphia scrapbook directory for 1768 compiled by John McAllister, Jr., Charles Massey, Jr. and Charles Poulson.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: May or June 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - B [3599.Q.107 (Poulson)]

Title: The army of Sir Knight Templars, Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A
Description: View showing the Knights Templar of Pennsylvania marching in uniform in front of a large crowd of spectators standing on the sidewalk and sitting in elevated viewing stands on North Broad Street on May 23, 1892 in connection with the fraternal organization's thirty-ninth annual conclave. Includes partial views of the Masonic Temple (built 1868-1873, James H. Windrim, architect) and Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (built 1869, Addison Hutton, architect). The procession began near Thompson Street, moved south on Broad Street, and disbanded at the Academy of Music., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Buff 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: Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909
Date: c1892
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Processions [P.9047.127]

Title: Broa d Street, showing M.E. church, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A
Description: View looking northeast on Broad Street showing the west elevation and spire of Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (built 1869, Addison Hutton, architect) and a partial view of the west front of Masonic Temple in the right foreground (built 1868-1873, James H. Windrim, architect). Also shows a partial view of a Chestnut Street horsecar in the left foreground, a horse-drawn coach in front of the temple, and pedestrians on the sidewalk., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Buff 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: Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909
Date: c1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Religion [P.9047.128]

Title: Masonic Temple and M.E. Church, Phila
Description: View looking south showing buildings on the east side of Broad Street near Arch Street, including the Surgical Institute, Eastern Division (northeast corner of Broad and Arch Streets), the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (1344-48 Arch, built 1869-70, Addison Hutton, architect) and Masonic Temple (1-33 North Broad, built 1868-73, James H. Windrim, architect). In the foreground, an unhitched coach and dray sit on Broad Street near a utility pole and ladder. The first floor skeleton of City Hall is partially visible in the background., Title on negative., Publisher's imprint on mount., Yellow 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.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - De Young's Palace Dollar Store [P.9047.9]

Title: Methodist Episcopal Church and Masonic Temple
Description: View looking south from the sidewalk in front of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts showing buildings on the east side of Broad Street near Arch Street, including the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (1344-48 Arch, built 1869-70, Addison Hutton, architect) and Masonic Temple (1-33 North Broad, built 1868-73, James H. Windrim, architect). In the foreground, a broadside advertising PAFA's exhibition of "engravings, etchings, and mezzotints" stands on the sidewalk and a sign advertising "Dying Lioness, the bronze group," hangs from a nearby building. Also shows a construction site with unhitched coaches and drays across the street. The skeleton of the lower levels of City Hall is partially visible in the background., Title from printed series list on verso. Includes two other series, "Philadelphia Centennial Views" and "Miscellaneous."Printed on verso: Philad'a Stereo. Publishing Company., Publisher's imprint on mount., Orange curved mount with rounded corners., Purchased by the Fairmount Park Art Association, the Dying Lioness statue group arrived in Philadelphia in the fall of 1875, before it was installed on the Centennial Exhibition grounds. It moved to the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens entrance after the fair., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Fleischner - Religion [P.9117.1]

Title: M.E. Church Broad and Arch Sts., Philada
Description: Exterior views of the church constructed 1869-70 after designs by Addison Hutton, including one looking southeast on Broad Street at the north and west elevations of the church and the other looking northwest from a construction site, with a horse-drawn dray, in front of Masonic Temple. Both views include the west front of the adjacent Masonic Temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of James H. Windrim, the cobblestone tree-lined street in the foreground and the liquor store operated by Charles P. Collins at the northeast corner of Broad and Arch Streets., Title on mounts., Photographer's imprint on mounts., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Charles P. Collins moved his liquor business from 1627 Market Street to the northwest corner of Broad and Arch Streets in 1872., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., P.9047.56 gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Religion [P.9047.56 and P.9135]

Title: Cohocksink M.E. Church
Description: Interior view of the chancel, altar, pews and galleries in the brick church constructed in 1857 (cornerstone laid July 22, 1857) on Germantown Avenue near Columbia Avenue., Title on negative., Photographer and publisher's imprint printed on mount in decorative text., Yellow 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: Purviance, W. T. (William T.)
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Purviance - Religion [P.9047.60]

Title: Joseph Sims old mansion. Next south of St. Peters' church ground on the west side of Third Street near Lombard St. (part of the church, and Pine St., house in the view)
Description: Shows the former residence of merchant Joseph Sims on the 400 block of South Third Street. Also shows a horse-drawn wagon hauling materials and partial views of surrounding buildings, including St. Peter's Church (300-340 Pine)., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson manuscript note on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Mount inscribed with directions: N. E. S. W, 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 107. 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, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - S [(3)2526.F.107 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/25256f107.jpg

Title: North Broad St. from La Pierre House
Description: Rooftop view from the La Pierre House Hotel at Broad and Sansom streets showing North Broad Street. View includes: the Seventh Presbyterian Church at the northeast corner of Chestnut and Broad streets; Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (built 1869-70) at 55-65 N. Broad Street; and the tree-covered North and South Penn Squares (removed circa 1871 for the construction of City Hall). Also shows freight cars traveling past the Seventh Presbyterian Church on Chestnut Street and north on North Broad Street en route to the freight depot of the Reading Railroad at the corner of Cherry and Broad streets., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Purple mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 116., Arcadia caption text: Taken from the rooftop of the La Pierre House Hotel at Broad and Sansom streets, the left view shows Penn Square shortly before it was removed in 1871 for the construction of the new City Hall designed by Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr. ..., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Streets [(8)1322.F.17a]

Title: North Broad St. from La Pierre House
Description: Rooftop view from the La Pierre House Hotel at Broad and Sansom streets showing North Broad Street. View includes: the Seventh Presbyterian Church at the northeast corner of Chestnut and Broad streets; Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (built 1869-70) at 55-65 N. Broad Street; and the tree-covered North and South Penn Squares (removed circa 1871 for the construction of City Hall). Also shows freight cars traveling past the Seventh Presbyterian Church on Chestnut Street and north on North Broad Street en route to the freight depot of the Reading Railroad at the corner of Cherry and Broad streets., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Purple mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 116., Arcadia caption text: Taken from the rooftop of the La Pierre House Hotel at Broad and Sansom streets, the left view shows Penn Square shortly before it was removed in 1871 for the construction of the new City Hall designed by Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr. ..., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Streets [(8)1322.F.17a]

Title: Rev. C.M. Tanner, Philadelphia, Pa., April 17, 1896
Description: Bust-length portrait of Carlton Miller Tanner (ca. 1869-1933), the African Methodist Episcopal clergyman, missionary, author, and brother of artist Henry Ossawa Tanner. Depicts Tanner, his head turned slightly right, attired in a white clerical collar; dark-colored, button-down vest; and dark-colored jacket with notched lapels. His hair is cropped short and he wears a mustache. Tanner, born in Philadelphia, was a graduate of the Institute of Colored Youth and Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. Holding a Doctor of Divinity from Wilberforce University, Payne Theological Seminary, Tanner began work as a pastor about 1893 and presided over the A.M.E. churches Big Bethel Church (Atlanta, Ga.) in the early 1900s and Metropolitan Church A.M.E. (Washington D.C.) between 1917 and 1922. Tanner also established the South African Christian Recorder in 1902 and wrote a "Manual of the A.M.E. Church." He passed away while a resident of Chicago, IL., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount., Description reviewed 2022., Access points reviewed 2022.
Creator: Kuebler, William J., photographer
Date: [April 17, 1896]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Swayne Collection [P.2018.66.4]

Title: Hare, George Emlen, 1808-1892
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: January 8, 1848

Title: Bishops of the A.M.E. Church
Description: Commemorative print commissioned by the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in commemoration of the nation's centennial and the church's 160th anniversary. Contains a central portrait of First Bishop Richard Allen surrounded by portraits of ten church bishops and six titled vignettes depicting important events, sites, and symbols in the history of the church. Bishops portrayed are: Morris Brown; William Paul Quinn; Daniel A. Payne; Jabez A. Campbell; Thomas M.D. Ward; John M. Brown; James A. Shorter; Alexander W. Wayman; Willis Nazrey; and Edward Waters. Vignettes depict: Wilberforce University, one of the first African American colleges in the United States founded in Ohio in 1856; an image of the "Old Chart", the Bible; interior scene of a young African American preacher, possibly Richard Allen, before his small congregation near a hearth and anvil from the "Early days of African Methodism"; exterior view of the "Payne Institute," Bishop Payne's log cabin school for African Americans in South Carolina declared illegal by the state in 1835; a marinescape with a group of people welcoming the "First missionaries to Port-Au-Prince Hayti, Rev. Scipio Beans and Richard Robinson, 1824"; and an 1876 exterior view of the "Book Depository A.M.E. Church" in Philadelphia., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright John H.W. Burley, Washington, D.C. 1876., Framed., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1996, p. 36., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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., Gift of Roger Stoddard in honor of Edwin Wolf 2nd, 1996.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Framed graphics [P.9508]

Title: Mease, James, 1771-1846
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: November 20, 1799

Title: White, William, 1748-1836
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: April 23, 1771

Title: Views of Liberia from "W.F. Lynch report of mission to Africa"
Description: Series of titled views of the Black emigrant country of Liberia (founded 1822) that accompanied a government report compiled by William F. Lynch, Commander, United States Navy following an exploratory excursion to the west coast of Africa. Depicts the stone mansion of Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first president of Liberia (1847-1855); Episcopal Mission, near Cape Palmas, Mt. Vaughan, founded in 1834 under the auspices of the Maryland Colonization Society and the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Monrovia (i.e., Liberia) from Bushrod's Island; and Cape Palmas, a Liberian settlement. Views include lush landscapes, Black and white residents, sailing ships, and dwellings., Title from name of the publication., Artists include John H.B. Latrobe and William S. Seager., Printed below images: Senate executive documents, No. 1, 33rd Congress, 1st Session, Part III., Published in "W.F. Lynch report of mission to Africa," Senate Executive documents, 1st Session, 33rd Congress, part 3, vol. 1, doc. 1, p. 329-389., Latrobe, a Baltimore landscape painter, also served as President of the Maryland Colonization Society., Gift of David Doret, 2004., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Wagner & M'Guigan, a partnership between Philadelphia lithographers Thomas S. Wagner & James M'Guigan, was active 1846-1858.
Creator: Wagner & M'Guigan
Date: [1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - Foreign - Africa [P.2004.33.5a-d]

Title: The Rev. Richard Allen, Bishop of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, in the U. States
Description: Half-length portrait of the African American bishop, seated, and holding the Holy Bible upright in his lap with his right hand. Allen is depicted with gray curly hair and is attired in a shirt with a high neck collar, a vest, and a jacket. A geometric border frames the portrait. Allen, born into slavery in Philadelphia, founded and was ordained the first bishop of the denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1816., Original painting attributed to Raphaelle Peale., Title from item., 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., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Purchase 2006.
Creator: Boyd, John, engraver
Date: cDecember 8th, 1823, December 10th, 1823
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - A [P.2006.29]

Title: First Methodist Episcopal Church, Clark and Washington sts
Description: View of the four-story building at the southeast corner of Clark and Washington Streets in Chicago that housed the First Methodist Episcopal Church on its upper floors from about 1857 until 1871. A signboard for the church is visible along with signs for a dentist and millinery & strawgoods store on the ground floor of the building. Businesses situated at the northeast corner of Clark and Washington Streets, including Bryant & Stratton's business college and Fifth National Bank, are also visible. Also depicts a large gas lamp in front of the Clark Street entrance to the church with "First Methodist Church" inscribed onto the glass panes. Building destroyed by the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871., Title and photographer's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's label pasted on verso: From James Cremer's stereoscopic emporium, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Family groups taken for the stereoscope, and photography in all its branches., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp - 17, Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., John Carbutt operated a photography studio and resided in Chicago from 1861-1870.
Creator: Carbutt, John, 1832-1905
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Carbutt - Religion [P.9022.64]

Title: Philadelphia, from the State House steeple, north, east and south
Description: Panoramic view looking east toward the Delaware River predominantly showing the area east of Fifth Street between Arch and South Streets from Independence Hall. Includes the Court House, i.e. City Hall (500 Chestnut Street); Philadelphia Library, i.e., Library Company of Philadelphia (105 S. Fifth Street); a flag flying on top of the U.S. Bank, i.e., Second Bank of the U.S. (420 Chestnut Street); the spires of Christ Church (22-34 N. Second Street) and St. Peter's Church (300-340 Pine Street). Also shows part of the State House garden; the north side of the 500 block of Chestnut Street, including adjoined storefronts tenanted by the American Hotel (181-183 Chestnut Street); S.L. Simons daguerreotype rooms (179 Chestnut Street); Geo. Earle's Pantechnethica (175 Chestnut Street); Geo. J. Henkels' City Cabinet Wareroom (173 Chestnut Street); and a clothing store on the northwest corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets. Also depicts rooftop views (including people on the roofs) of several of the surrounding city blocks; and a few pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage on Chestnut Street and the grounds of the State House. Sailboats and a steamboat are visible on the Delaware River in the distance, along with the horizon of Camden, N.J., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 587, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Elliot, Leo von, 1816-1890, artist
Date: c1849
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W287 [P.2125]

Title: Goal, in Walnut Street Philadelphia
Description: Active street scene at Sixth and Walnut streets with a view of the Walnut Street Jail, completed in 1776, after the designs of Philadelphia architect Robert Smith. Depicts several individuals, including a child, lining Sixth Street witnessing a large wood shed on wheels, possibly the first edifice of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, being moved by a team of horses. A dog runs in the street and another sits next to a spectator in the right foreground. The prison closed and was razed in 1835, the prisoners relocated to Moyamensing Prison. The first edifice of Bethel Church, a former blacksmith shop, was transported to Sixth and Lombard streets., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 24., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 24/P.2276.56]

Title: Saint John's Church, Elizabethtown, N.J
Description: Views showing the interior and exterior of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1859 after the designs of John Welch at 61 Broad Street in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Views include the church altar, stained-glass windows, a cleric in his robes, pews, and the church burial ground., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of views of Philadelphia and views of New Jersey., Contains three stereographic prints mounted on pale yellow mounts with square corners, including two with printed titles and publisher's labels pasted on versos listing the rectors and history of the congregation and church. Also contains two half stereographic images mounted on paper and one albumen mounted on cardboard. Two of images attributed to photographer John Moran., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: December 1861, c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.151b, 151c &156d; 5742.F.5h; 5742.F.8c], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McAllister & Bro. [1322.F.154c]

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