View showing the Gothic-style Protestant Episcopal church built 1846-1850 after the designs of English architect George Gordon Place at 3200-3230 West Clearfield Street in East Falls near Laurel Hill Cemetery. Also shows the bells in the church spire and tombstones in the church cemetery. The Ecclesiological Society, a British church architecture society, provided the plans for the church to be recreated in the style of a 13th-century English country parish., Title, date, and photographer's imprint 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 67. 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 1855-11., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #87., 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 [(5)2526.F.10b]
Shows the Kane family hillside vault including the remains of Philadelphia Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane. Laurel Hill cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman., Title from publisher's label pasted on verso., Grey paper mount with square corners., Printed on mount: Tomb of Dr. Kane., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date
1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McClees - Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.45e]
Exterior view of the Episcopalian, former Lutheran, church built 1700-1703 by master builder John I. Harrison at 929 South Water Street. Also shows tombstones in the adjacent cemetery of the church., Title and date 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 42 or 43. 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 1856-6., 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 meetinghouse [(5)2526.F.45]
