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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: Wharton Street Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, 54th and Catharine Street, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of church looking northwest. Built in 1905 after designs by Wesley Lesher Blithe., Also identified as Wharton Wesley United Methodist Church., Undivided back. Post marked 1911., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1911
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.12]

Title: Emmanuel P.E. Church, Holmesburg, Philadelphia
Description: Interior view of sanctuary. Church built in 1858 after designs by Samuel Sloan., Undivided back., 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 - [P.9050.40]

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: St. James, 21st and Walnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view of church and bell tower. Demolished circa 1947., Numbered 25427 on verso., Divided back. Post marked 1910., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.45]

Title: Church of "Saint John Chrysostom", Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view of the front facade of the Protestant Episcopal Saint John Chrysostom Church built in 1899 after designs by Baily & Truscott at 2159 North Twenty-eighth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Shows the Church, made of Holmesburg granite with a forty-five foot dome topped with an eight foot gilded cross, situated at the southeast corner of North Twenty-Eighth Street and West Susquehanna Avenue. It became the Gibson Temple Baptist Church in the circa 1950s., Title from item., Numbered 1015 on recto., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.47]

Title: St. Peters Church postcards
Description: Contains exterior views of church built 1758-1761 after designs by Robert Smith. William Strickland designed the monument to Benjamin Carr in 1831 and added the tower and spire in 1842., Contains 9 postcards printed in color and 3 printed in black and white., 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: 1900-1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - St. Peters - 52]

Title: Church of "Saint John Chrysostom", Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view of the front facade of the Protestant Episcopal Saint John Chrysostom Church built in 1899 after designs by Baily & Truscott at 2159 North Twenty-eighth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Shows the Church, made of Holmesburg granite with a forty-five foot dome topped with an eight foot gilded cross, situated at the southeast corner of North Twenty-Eighth Street and West Susquehanna Avenue. It became the Gibson Temple Baptist Church in the circa 1950s., Title from item., Numbered 1015 on recto., Sheet number: 50A09., 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 [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]

Title: St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Roxboro near Wissahickon, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view of church built 1862-1863 after designs by Emlem Trenchard Littell. Charles Marquedent Burns designed the corner tower and baptistry in the 1870s. Additional renovations were made incrementally until 1931., Sheet number: 50A10., 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 [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]

Title: St. Mary's P.E. Church, 38th & Locust Sts., Easter greetings altar, in memory of Mrs. Isabella Macomb Wetherill
Description: Interior view of altar of church built in 1897 after designs by George Nattress in the middle of the 3900 block of Locust Street. Depicts altar covered in palm fronds for the Easter holiday., Sheet number: 50B12., Undivided 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 [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]

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: [St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church, 4442 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view looking west at the front elevation of the Protestant Episcopal church's second building, built in 1848 on Frankford Avenue (i.e., Main Street). Includes bare trees on the property. Front partially covered in ivy. Demolished ca. 1896., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Manuscript note on verso: H.M.B.S., Gray mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schofield, John, 1835-1910
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schofield - Religion [P.9774.3]

Title: St. Mark's Church, Locust Street above 16th, Phila
Description: Exterior view looking west from Sixteenth Street at the steeple of the Episcopal church built 1848-1851 after the designs of John Notman at 1607-1627 Locust Street. Also shows partial views of other buildings on the tree-lined street, including a dwelling, possibly part of the church, in the foreground., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publisher's printed label pasted 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 Robert M. Vogel.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Religion [P.9047.74]

Title: [All Saints' Church, 12th & Fitzwater Streets] "The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the Lord, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring." Dear friend: the pleasure of your company is requested next Sunday, Sept. 21st, 1879, 10 1/2 o'clock, A.M. and 8 P.M., at the reopening of All Saints' Church, 12th & Fitzwater Streets. Yours truly, the vestry
Description: Invitation depicting an invitation illustrated with a small vignette of the church exterior tucked into a bouquet of lilies. All Saints' Church, founded in 1827, moved into its Twelfth Street building in 1846., Part of title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: 1879
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - All Saints' Church [1975.F.21]

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: 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: 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: 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. 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: 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: 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]

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