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Title: Tabor Presbyterian Church, s.w. corner of Christian & 18th Sts. Philadelphia. Erected A.D. 1863
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic-style church at the southwest corner of Eighteenth and Christian Streets. Also shows pedestrian traffic in the foreground, including a couple, a woman and child, and a man strolling with two ladies. Church was organized in 1863 from members of the Missionary Association of the Calvary Presbyterian Church., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 740, Gift of David Doret., Sloan was a member of the Tabor Presbyterian church.
Creator: Watson, John Frampton, artist
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W362 [P.2004.44.31]

Title: The Calvary Presbyterian Church, Locust Street, - Philadelphia
Description: View showing the Gothic-style Presbyterian church built 1851-1853 after the designs of John Notman at 1508-1514 Locust Street. The building includes two towers that flank a center with gabled roof and contains arched doors and windows. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including two women conversing on the sidewalk and a man entering the church. Adjacent buildings are partially visible. The church was completed for a dissenting congregation that included locomotive industrialist Matthias Baldwin who contributed $10,000 to the over $100,000 construction and land fees., Not in Wainwright., Probably by Henry Steinegger, a Swiss-born lithographer active in the West in the later nineteenth century., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 77, Gift of David Doret., LCP AR [Annual Report] 2002, p. 65., See Catalogue of the twenty-second Exhbition of American Manufactures... (Philadelphia, 1852), p. 19, entry 2909.
Creator: Steinegger, Henry, artist
Date: [ca. 1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Religion [P.2002.57]

Title: Broad Street Independant [sic] Church, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the First Independent Church, later renamed Chambers Presbyterian Church, built 1831 at the northeast corner of Broad and Sansom streets. Also shows a partial view of an adjacent building and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians include a couple with a child and two men greeting one another. Also contains amateur ink-drawn and hand-colored modifications. Retouches show fire hoses in front of the buildings leading to firefighters using a hand-pumper to fight a blaze in the background. Some pedestrian figures also altered with firefigher hats and capes. The church, altered in 1853 to include a front portico, housed the independent congregation of Rev. John Chambers. Congregation admitted to the Presbytery in 1873., Inscribed on recto: S.A. Jackson; see p. 81., Title annotated with a slash through the "a" in "Independant.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 64, Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 4, page 85. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape.
Creator: Town, E.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches and meetinghouses [(4)2526.F.85]

Title: West Arch Street Presbyterian Church, corner of Eighteenth & Arch streets, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view showing the church also known as Arch Street Presbyterian Church built by Joseph DeNegre in 1855 after the designs of Joseph C. Hoxie at 1726-1732 Arch Street. Also shows parishioners, men, women, and children, leaving the church, walking past it, and convening in couples and groups on the sidewalk around the building. Also shows a horse-drawn carriage galloping in the street., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of partnership of M.H. Traubel & Co., Length of House 150 feet, Width " " 87 ", Height of Front Tower 115 feet, " " Centre " 170 "., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 882, Gift of David Doret., Print received after original dates of project.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret Collection - Prints [P.2020.39.13]

Title: Second Reformed Dutch Church
Description: Exterior view showing the Presbyterian church with colonnade portico at 811 N. 7th Street). Lithograph by an ornate gilt decorative border composed of flowers, leaves, and filigree. Shows pedestrian traffic in front of the church built 1853-1854 under the supervision of the building committee of Rev. Dr. J. F. Berg, George Hawes, D. W. C. Moore, and Charles Collins Jr. Pedestrians include a man carrying a bundle on his shoulder and a boy playing with a hoop. Congregation organized in 1852 from members withdrawn from the First German Reformed Church., Title from item., Date supplied from variant copy in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 688a, Variant of Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 138 R 332
Creator: Sherwin, John H., b. 1834, artist
Date: [1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W333 [P.2019.55.3]

Title: St. Paul's German Lutheran Church. N. East, corner of Brown and St. John sts., Phila
Description: Exterior view of the church built 1840 after the designs of architect A.D. Caldwell on the 200 block of Brown Street. Also shows pedestrian and street traffic, including a man and woman admiring the church from a street corner; a couple in a carriage acknowledging a gentleman passing on horseback; and a man seated side-saddle on a stopped horse conversing with a man in the street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 714, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), artist
Date: c1840
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W349 [P.2004.44.30]

Title: High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church. Philadelphia, 1800
Description: Lithographic facsimile of plate nine from William Birch's "Views of Philadelphia" showing a street scene with a view of the First Presbyterian Church on Market Street below Third Street. Depicts pedestrians, predominately women, traversing the sidewalk before the church and adjacent buildings; a horse-drawn dray and cart traveling the street; and a woman peddler with her basket of goods near the High Street market shed. First Presbyterian, rebuilt from 1793 to 1794 after the designs of John Trumbull, was the first building in the city with a classic temple facade. The building was razed following the relocation of the congregation., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 355, Accession number amended by cataloger., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Original engraving illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 9., Sinclair operated from 79 South Third Street circa 1840-1849.
Creator: Sinclair, Thomas
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches and meetinghouses [Log 1322.F.c]

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