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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: Trinity Presbyterian Church, corner Cambria St. & Frankford Ave
Description: Exterior view of church built in 1876., Postcard issued by A. Schneider, Philadelphia and Excelsior, Inc., Sheet number: 50B13C., Divided back. Post marked 1914., 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. 1914
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]

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: Bird's eye view of Philadelphia, showing the river
Description: Bird's eye view looking northeast toward the Delaware River from City Hall tower, showing the tree-covered Franklin Square and the spire of the Arch Street Presbyterian Church (Arch Street above Tenth, built 1823). Includes the empty lot near Twelfth and Filbert Streets where the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad shed would be completed two years after this photograph., 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 - Views [P.9047.38]

Title: Rev. Jno. Chambers Church, N.E. cor Broad & Sansom Sts
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 adjacent buildings, including a residence with awnings adorning the second floor windows. Church housed the independent congregation of Rev. John Chambers. Congregation admitted to the Presbytery in 1873., Title from Poulson inscription on accompanying label., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 91? 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., Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Published in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 157., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: McClees & Germon, photographer
Date: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Churches and meetinghouses [(5)2526.F.105]

Title: Independent Church Dr. Chambers, Broad and George St
Description: Exterior view of the First Independent Church, later renamed Chambers Presbyterian Church, built 1831, altered 1853 at the northeast corner of Broad and Sansom streets. Also shows adjacent buildings. Front facade altered with a portico. Church housed the independent congregation of Rev. John Chambers. Congregation admitted to the Presbytery in 1873., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Manuscript note on mount: See page 91., McClees 1855-16., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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 81. 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., 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: 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Churches and meetinghouses [(4)2526.F.2]

Title: Wylie Memorial Church, Broad & Spruce streets, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view showing the third building of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church (i.e. Wylie Memorial Church) erected in 1854 on the 300 block of Broad Street after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings, including a wood shack adorned with broadsides. Congregation organized in 1798. Church renamed in the early 1890s for long-term pastors T.W.J. Wylie and Samuel Wylie., Title from manuscript note on mount., 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: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Churches and Meetinghouses - F [4)1322.F.41a]

Title: Olivet Presby. Church, 22nd and Mount Vernon Sts
Description: Exterior view of the east and south elevations of the church constructed 1855 at the northwest corner of Twenty-second and Mt. Vernon Streets. Parts of the church are covered in ivy and trees and lampposts line the sidewalk in the foreground., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Religion [P.9260.43]

Title: Pine Street Church. Built A.D. 1764. Remodeled 1857
Description: Exterior view showing the remodeled Third Presbyterian Church also known as Old Pine Street Church, originally built 1766-1768 after the designs of Robert Smith, at 400-416 South 4th Street. Columns on pediments adorn the front of the building and an iron-wrought fence protects the church property. Church remodeled from a meeting house to a Greek-style temple in 1857 after the designs of John Fraser., pdcc00002, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:24, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 136 T 445c [proof copy]
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 23:24

Title: Locust St. east from Sixteenth
Description: View looking east from Sixteenth Street showing brick row houses on the south side of Locust Street and the Gothic-style Presbyterian church built 1851-1853 after the designs of John Notman (1508-1514 Locust Street). a pile of rubble sits in the street in the foreground. 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., Title on negative., Manuscript note on verso: 16th St. looking E. on Locust, Calvary Presbyterian Ch., Orange curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9208.6]

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: [Broad and Oxford Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View looking northeast showing the front facades of row houses and dwellings on Broad Street, just below Oxford Street (1529-1535 North Broad). Also depicts the Oxford Presbyterian Church at the northeast corner, constructed 1879-1881 after a fire destroyed the original church and chapel. Church organized in 1867., Title supplied by cataloger., Copy photograph attributed to James Cremer based on duplicate stereograph bearing his imprint., Manuscript note on verso: Broad & Oxford Sts., Orange curved mount 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, photographer
Date: [ca. 1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9260.52]

Title: 7th Presbyterian Church, Broad Above Chestnut
Description: Exterior view of the Greek Revival-style church built 1842 after the designs of Napoleon LeBrun on Broad Street between Penn Square and Chestnut Street. View shows a man and children on the church steps; a street lamp at the corner; and a partial view of the U.S. Mint (1331-1337 Chestnut) in the left background., Title from manuscript note on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McClees & Germon, a partnership between Philadelphia photographers James E. McClees and Washington Lafayette Germon, was active between 1854-1855.
Creator: McClees & Germon, photographer
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [(6)1322.F.44a]

Title: The second Presbyterian church. And the burial grounds belonging to it, and that of the first Presbyterian church. On the southwest corner of Pine, and Fourth Street, as recently altered and improved
Description: View showing the Third Presbyterian Church also known as Old Pine Street Church built 1766-1768 after the designs of Robert Smith at 400-416 South 4th Street. Church remodeled 1857 after the designs of John Fraser. Also shows the church burial ground behind an ironwork fence and partial views of surrounding buildings., Title 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 125. 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: May 5, 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Churches and Meetinghouses [(3)2526.F.125 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f125.jpg

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]

Title: N.W. & N. E. Chelten Ave. & Main St., Post Office & 1st Presbyt. Church
Description: Depicts businesses at the northwest and northeast corners of Germantown and Chelten Avenues, including (from east to west) Edward M. Bennis' real estate office; the post office; the Germantown Business College in the Vernon Building; Schaefer conveyancer office and the Pennsylvania Railroad ticket office. The steeple of the First Presbyterian Church of Germantown is visible in the background. A horse and carriage sits at the corner and the sidewalks are crowded with pedestrians., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca. 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.34]

Title: Photographic Views of Philadelphia's New City Building
Description: Albums of progress photographs of the early construction of City Hall built 1871-1901 on Penn Square after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. Photographs show different stages of the construction of the foundation and lower floor of the building between 1873 and 1875. Includes images of the dirt sub basement; construction materials, equipment, and workers; aerial views of the built foundation; partially completed walls and abutments; and studio views of columns and architectural ornaments. Several of the views include scaffolding; horse-drawn carts; pulleys; piles of construction debris; Pennsylvania Railroad cars on Market Street; and workers and well-dressed men, probably the commissioners, reviewing and posed on or near constructed parts of the building and construction materials. Views also show surrounding cityscape, including the Masonic Temple (Broad and Filbert); United States Mint (1331-1337 Chestnut Street); the Seventh Presbyterian Church (Broad Street above Chestnut Street); Pennsylvania Railroad Freight Depot (13th and Market); La Salle College High School (Filbert and Juniper); Sharpless & Watts, flooring tile (1325 Market Street); the spires of Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (s.w. cor. Broad & Arch) and First Baptist Church (n.w. cor. Broad and Arch); and other surrounding businesses (beer hall, wall paper, and furniture) and residences.

Title: Photographic views of New City Building
Description: Albums of progress photographs of the early construction of City Hall built 1871-1901 on Penn Square after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. Photographs show different stages of the construction of the foundation and lower floor of the building between 1873 and 1875. Includes images of the dirt sub basement; construction materials, equipment, and workers; aerial views of the built foundation; partially completed walls and abutments; and studio views of columns and architectural ornaments. Several of the views include scaffolding; horse-drawn carts; pulleys; piles of construction debris; Pennsylvania Railroad cars on Market Street; and workers and well-dressed men, probably the commissioners, reviewing and posed on or near constructed parts of the building and construction materials. Views also show surrounding cityscape, including the Masonic Temple (Broad and Filbert); United States Mint (1331-1337 Chestnut Street); the Seventh Presbyterian Church (Broad Street above Chestnut Street); Pennsylvania Railroad Freight Depot (13th and Market); La Salle College High School (Filbert and Juniper); Sharpless & Watts, flooring tile (1325 Market Street); the spires of Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (s.w. cor. Broad & Arch) and First Baptist Church (n.w. cor. Broad and Arch); and other surrounding businesses (beer hall, wall paper, and furniture) and residences., Volume 1 (Oct. 1873-Aug. 1874) contains two tipped in letters, dated December 26, 1873 and June 27, 1874, from President of the Commissioners for the Erection of the Public Buildings Samuel C. Perkins. Correspondence presents the stereographs, "authorized to be taken by the commissioners," as a means for the library to "have for preservation in [the] archives a complete photographic record of the progress of a work which under any aspect must be considered as of marked importance in our local history.", Stereographs numbered, dated, and printed with the series title "Views of Construction in Sub-Basement" or "Views of Construction" and the names of the architect, chief assistant, and board of commissioners on the verso., Calf bindings, polished and mottled., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Volume 1 image 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., Samuel C. Perkins, a Philadelphia lawyer, served as president of the Commissioners for the Erection of the Public Buidlings 1872-1891., Housed in phase boxes.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: 1873-1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Cremer [(1) 23455.D & (2) 23455.D]

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