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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: [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: 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: 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: 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: [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: 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: 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 120.3, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., 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., Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-75.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: 1848, c1840
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W64.3 [(4)1322.F.62e]

Title: The Emmanuel Episcopal Church. [Marlboro' Str. Kensington, Phila.]
Description: 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., Manuscript note on recto: J. Gordon Maxwell in the pulpit., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 206, Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 132 E 549., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reaccessioned as P.2207.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W374 [P.2207]

Title: The Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Marlboro' Str. Kensington, Phila
Description: 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., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 206, Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 132 E 549., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reaccessioned as P.2208.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W374 [P.2208]

Title: Church of the Incarnation, Broad and Jefferson streets, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior views of the chapel of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1858-1859 in North Philadelphia. One view includes a pile of wood planks in the foreground and surrounding buildings. Church altered and compelted 1866-1870 after the designs of James H. Windrim., Unmounted halfs of stereographs., Title from mauscript note on verso of (5)1322.F.74a., Attributed to McAllister & Brother., 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: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.74a(v) & 74b(v)]

Title: Emmanuel Episcopal Mission Church. Marlboro Street Kn. Published to assist in liquidating the debt upon the church, by the wardens
Description: 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., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 207, See 374 for interior view., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Accession number amended by cataloger., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc132 E54., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W110 [Log 1322.F.a]

Title: Emmanuel Episcopal Mission Church. Marlboro Street Kn. Published to assist in liquidating the debt upon the church, by the wardens
Description: 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., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 207, See 374 for interior view., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Accession number amended by cataloger., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc132 E54., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W110 [Log 1322.F.a]

Title: Christ Church
Description: Exterior view looking northwest at 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. Scene includes pedestrian traffic walking along both Second and Church Streets, a flock of birds near the weathervane and steeple, and trolley tracks running the length of Second Street in the foreground., 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)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 117, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Uy8 96795.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898, artist
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W61 [Uy8 96795.D.frontispiece]

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., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 17 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 102.1, One of the images [(4)1322.F. 61c] originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Library Company of Philadelphia: (4)1322.F.61c; 3008.Q; in Print Room * Am 1838 Wild 6626.F and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb862 W6441 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. 32-75.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W64.1 [(4)1322.F.61c; 3008.Q]

Title: [Church of the Nativity]
Description: 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., Title and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 127, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 22:93. With title and printer's imprint., 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?
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, lithographic artist
Date: [ca. 1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W66 [(3)1322.F.150a]

Title: Advent Protestant Episcopal Church, Old York Road, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic-style church, known as the Church of the Advent, built 1844-1845 after the designs of John E. Carver at York Avenue and Buttonwood Street. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including a woman with a parasol, strolling with a child, and partial views of surrounding buildings., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 11, Accession number amended by cataloger., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Date: c1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches and Meetinghouses [Log 1322.F.b]

Title: Rev. Durborrow's (Episcopal) Church, Callowhill near Fairmount
Description: Exterior view of the Protestant Episcopal church, Church of the Redemption, built 1846 on the 2200 block of Callowhill Street. Also shows neighboring buildings. George A. Durborrow served as rector of the church 1846-1869., Title and date from transcribed scrapbook inscription., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: August 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Churches and Meetinghouses - C [(3)1322.F.73v]

Title: Old Swedes Church
Description: View looking from the southeast showing the Episcopalian, former Lutheran, church known as Gloria Dei Church, built 1700-1703 by master builder John Harrison I at 929 South Water Street. A wood fence, stenciled with the advertisement "Read the Daily Register," surrounds the church cemetery. Also shows neighboring buildings in the background., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., *McClees 1858-12., 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: September 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [(6)1322.F.18]

Title: St. Luke's Church, Germantown, Pa
Description: Exterior view of the Episcopal church built 1875-1876 at 5411-5421 Germantown Avenue for the congregation founded in 1811. Includes three visitors on the pathway to the church., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 670, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Religion - S [(4)1322.F.89]

Title: St Paul's Church, east side of Third Street, opposite Willing's Alley
Description: View showing the front facade of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1760-1761 by Robert Smith after the designs of John Palmer at 221-231 South 3rd Street. Includes two boys standing near an ironwork gate in front of the church and a partial view of an adjacent building., Tile and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., 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 123. 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., Reaccessioned as 8339.F.8., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Churches and Meetinghouses - S [(3)2526.F.123(Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/8339f8.jpg

Title: Plan. Church of the Epiphany
Description: Floor plan of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1833-1834 after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter at 1501-1515 Chestnut Street. Shows the chancel and 170 pews. Pews printed with a row number, "value," "seats," and "sittings." Values range from $150 to $500. Several pews are also printed with the names of pew owners. Pew owners include McAllister, Norris, Ashhurst, Van Pelt, Stokes, Biddle, and Wetherill., Printed below title: Note. The above are prices per sitting to Pew Owners. To renters will be added the interest on the value of the Pew at 6% per annum. Pews without names are held by the church unsold., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 604, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Chuches and Meeting Houses - Church of the Epiphany [(4)1322.F.70]

Title: Calvary Church, Manheim St. Germantown
Description: View predominately showing the side elevation of the rustic Episcopal church consecrated in 1859 at Pulaski Avenue and Manheim Street. The architecture includes cross-crowned porches, buttresses, and a bell tower adorned by a cross. Trees cover the surrounding grounds. A woman holding a parasol, and a man with a child approach the church entrance. A flock of birds is visible in the sky. Building razed to foundation in 1891., pdcc00029, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 28:37, Sidney & Adams operated as a partnership 1859-1860.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 28:37

Title: Church of Our Saviour, Reed and Eigth [i.e., Eighth] Sts. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic revival Protestant Episcopal church built in 1856 in South Philadelphia. Building is adorned with a bell tower and a one-story building stands behind it. Parish reorganized in 1870 into the Church of St. Timothy, Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 123, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithf Chur OS
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf Chur OS

Title: Church of the Resurrection. Rising Sun Village. Revd. Thos. J. Davis, rector
Description: View showing the small stone Protestant Episcopal church built in 1853 on North Broad and Tioga streets. Fenced pasture land surrounds the building. Congregation was organized under Rev. Thomas J. Davis in 1849., Title annotated with pencil inscription: Phila Pa., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 128, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 132 K 952
Creator: Kuchel, Charles Conrad, b. 1820, artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 132 K 952

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. 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. 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: 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: 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: Gloria Dei Or old Swede's Church, Swanson below Christian, Philadelphia. The oldest church organization in the city. Founded 1667, five years prior to the landing of William Penn. Present edifice erected 1700, and has been worshipped in continuously from that time
Description: Exterior view of the Episcopalian, former Lutheran, church known as Gloria Dei Church, built 1700-1703 by master builder John Harrison I at 929 South Water Street in Southwark. Shows a couple walking past the gravestones in the church cemetery and up the path to the entrance of Gloria Dei. Also includes neighboring buildings, trees on the cemetery grounds, and masts of ships in the background., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 317, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Religion - G [P.2007.28.16]

Title: St. Clement's Church (Protestant Episcopal), Twentieth and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia
Description: View of south and west facades of Romanesque Revival church along Appletree Street. Children stand and sit near a partially standing wooden fence next to the church. Brick rowhouses visible on 20th and Cherry Streets in background. Church constructed between 1855 and 1859 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Notman., Text on verso relates history of church and lists ministers and vestry members., Attributed to John Moran., Duplicate of (4)1322.F.81d.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McAllister - St. Clement's [P.9847]

Title: Church of the Intercessor, Philadelphia. (Protestant Episcopal.) Spring Garden Street, below Broad, Philadelphia
Description: Interior views showing the altar of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1859-1860 after the designs of Stephen P. Rush. Altar includes ornately embellished chairs and cloth adorned with the declaration "Our Lord Our Righteousness". Also includes a clergyman at the altar and parishioners seated in the pews., White paper mount with square corners., Title from publisher's label pasted on verso describing the church building and the history of the congregation., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Image [(4)1322.75a] duplicate of (4)1322.76a., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: April 1861, c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.75e], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.72b]

Title: St. Philip's Church. (Protestant Episcopal.) Vine Street, north side, above Eighth Street. Philadelphia
Description: Duplicate interior views showing the altar of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1840-1842 after the designs of William L. Johnston on the 700 block of Vine Street. Recess of altar decorated with garland and a wreath adorned with lettering reading "God With Us" and a star inscribed "IHS." Also includes two clergymen in clerical robes at the altar near potted trees and a partial view of pews., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Contains a stereographic print mounted on a white paper mount with square corners and accompanied by a publisher's label describing the church building and the history of the congregation. Also contains a one-half stereographic print mounted on paper., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: February 1861, c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.93b(v); (4)1322.F.94a]

Title: Exterior view; Interior view of the temporary Hedding M. E. Church. Situated on the S.E. corner of Coates and Sixteenth Sts. Philadelphia In this locality it was deemed important by the church, that our borders should be enlarged, and in order to accomplish this object, a large respectable church must be erected, Rev. Andrew Manship was on the 9th of August 1853 by the proper authorities of the M.E. Church appointed pastor, he and his people thinking it inexpedient to wait until the regular church could be ready for occupancy, resolved to erect this building, which is 100 ft. by near 40, and accommodates about twelve hundred persons. the building committee [A. Manship, M. Morris, John Miller, and A.F. Old] aided by the people, energetically proceeded with the work, and in ten days, the house was ready and on the 16th of October was dedicated to the worship of Almighty God. Since which time meetings have been held without much intermission and to the present date Feb. 10 1854, at least 300 persons have professed the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Clearly showing that God does not "Despise the day of small things". [sic]
Description: Exterior view showing a throng of men, women, and child parishioners arriving at the wood-plank temporary church building on the 1500 block of Coates, i.e., Fairmount Avenue. A tall picket fence with gate surrounds the church. The well-dressed church members file past the fence and through the open gate. Two stove pipes project out from the side of the building and a few trees provide landscape. The building served as the church for a year during the erection of the permanent building completed in the fall of 1854., Interior view showing the church packed with parishioners who fill the pews surrounding the minister's pulpit and stand in the aisle and rear of the building. Four stoves and overhanging lit gas pipes furnish the space. Men's hats hang on hooks on one of the walls. The minister stands and six church elders sit on the stage of the pulpit. Also shows one man sitting in the rear of the church., Engraved variant of "Exterior View" published in Rev. Andrew Manship's Thirteen year's experience in the itinerancy. Second edition. (Philadelphia, 1856). Copyrighted by Manship in 1855. [LCP Am 1857 Man 51198.D (Dick)], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 217, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1980 pg. 52.
Date: [1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W116 [P.8538]

Title: Christ Church, Philadelphia
Description: Interior view from balcony showing the altar of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1727-1744 at 22-34 North 2nd Street. Includes stain glass windows. Interior altered 1834 after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter., Attributed to McAllister & Brother., Title printed on mount., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Paper backing pasted on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Duplicate of P.8662.4 and (4)1322.F.64a., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: [1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.65a]

Title: Church of the Intercessor, Philadelphia
Description: Interior views showing the altar of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1859-1860 after the designs of Stephen P. Rush at Spring Garden Street below Broad Street. Altar includes ornately embellished chairs and cloth adorned with the declaration "Our Lord Our Righteousness"., Title printed on mount., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Paper backing pasted on verso., Publication information from duplicate [1322.F.75a]., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: [April 1861, c1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.75a ; (4)1322.F.76a]

Title: St. Luke's Church, 1840
Description: Floor plan of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1839-1840 after the designs of Thomas S. Stewart at 330 S. 13th Street. Shows the 184 pews; chancel, including pulpit, reading desk, and communion table; vestry room; fire proof room; aisles; south, north, and organ galleries; Sunday School benches; vestibule; portico; terrace, and gates. Pews printed with a row number, value, and "sittings." Values range from $50 to $850. Several pews are also inscribed with the names of pew owners. Pew owners include Sam. Breck, Jas. Dundas, S. Whitman, Benj, Stiles, T. S, Stewart (archt.); and W. Strickland., Printed on recto: The Choice of Pews will be disposed of by Auction in October next. The price is marked in each pew. The terms of sale will be one third Cash and the balance may be paid in notes at one and two years adding interest. September 1840., Scale: 8 Ft to the inch., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 710, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: 1840
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches and meetinghouses - S [P.9178.25]

Title: Interior of St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia
Description: Shows the pulpit of the Episcopal church built 1822-1823 after the designs of William Strickland at 19 South 10th Street. View includes stained glass windows., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Title printed on mount., Buff mount with square corners., Location from inscription on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Religion [(4)1322.F.96h]

Title: St. Stephen's Church (Episcopal). Dr. Duchachett [sic], rector. Tenth St. East side corner of College Avenue The broken ground &c in foreground, is the remains at the time the picture was taken, of the old wooden houses now removing to give place to a new market house
Description: Date inscribed on photograph., Tile and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: See next picture., View showing the Protestant Episcopal church built 1822-1823 after the designs of William Strickland at 19 South 10th Street. Also shows the construction site for the Franklin Market in the foreground., 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 49. 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., 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. 39., Arcadia caption text: St. Stephen’s Church represents another magnificent church structure added to the cityscape of Philadelphia during the 19th century. Built 1822-1823 at 19 South Tenth Street after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland, the Gothic-style Episcopal church houses two monuments bequeathed by devout parishioner and lawyer Edward Shippen Burd. The lower view shows one of the monuments, Burd’s tomb, designed by architect Frank Wills and installed after his death in 1848. The exterior view shows the construction site opposite the church for the Franklin Market, begun in 1859.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Churches and Meetinghouses - S [(3)2526.F.49 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f49.jpg

Title: Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia
Description: Floor plan of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1856-1859 after the designs of John Notman at 200 South 19th Street. Includes the chancel; vestibules; towers; the center, South, and North galleries of pews; and a porch. Pews are printed with a row number, "value," "seats," and "rent." Values range from $1200 to $200 and pews 146 and 147 are annotated in ink: "3 for rent" and "1 for rent." In March 1859, an auction administered by M. Thomas & Sons was arranged by the vestry to raise funds to complete the construction of the church, particularly a steeple. The steeple was never completed., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 126, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., For a description of the auction and church, see Poulson's scrapbooks, vol. 1, pp. 46, 48 1/2, and 50.
Creator: Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches and Meeting Houses - Church of the Holy Trinity [(4)1322.F.74a]

Title: Church of the Evangelists. Catharine St. west of 7th., Philadelphia
Description: View of the Episcopal church built 1856-1857 at 711-721 Catharine Street. Church property contains side courtyards enclosed by iron gates. Also show partial views of neighboring buildings and street and pedestrian traffic. Traffic includes a horse-drawn carriage, three men conversing on the sidewalk, a man on horseback, and a man walking, a coat over his arm, who is followed by a dog. Congregation formed in 1837 and admitted to the Episcopal church in 1842. The church was the last consecrated by Bishop Potter in the Philadelphia diocese in 1864. The building was razed in 1885, rebuilt in 1886 after the designs of Furness, Evans & Co., and in 1922 incorporated into the Fleisher Art Memorial., Artist possibly French-born lithographer Leonard Crepson (b. 1837)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 125, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 132 E 92
Creator: Crépon, L., artist
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 132 E 92

Title: West view of St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia. April 1_1842
Description: Exterior view of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1758-1761 after the designs of Robert Smith at 300-340 Pine Street. Building includes the church tower and spire built in 1842 after the designs of William Strickland. Also shows the church burial ground in the foreground., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 829, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 132 Sa 25b, Inscribed on verso: Presented by Mrs. John C. Browne, Oct. 10, 1918.
Creator: Smith, R. S. (Richard Somers), 1813-1877, artist
Date: [1842]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 132 Sa 25b

Title: St. David's Church. Manayunk
Description: Exterior view showing the Gothic-style Episcopal church built in 1832 at St. David's and Dupont streets. Headstones are visible in the adjacent church graveyard. Also shows a solitary headstone under a tree in the right foreground. A picket fence surrounds the property. The building was enlarged in 1857 and destroyed by fire in 1879. Church was rebuilt in 1880. The congregation, established in 1831, was formed from immigrant mill workers working in the burgeoning textile industry that was developing along the Schuylkill River above Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 707, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 132 S 1363
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 132 S 1363

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