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Title: Fifth Baptist Church, Eighteenth and Spring Garden Streets
Description: Exterior view of church before Horace Trumbauer was commissioned to renovate the church in 1924. Includes an inset of an unidentified man, possibly the pastor of the church., Also known as the Brandywine Fifth Baptist Church., Sheet number: 50B02B., Divided back. Church bulletin 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. 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]

Title: Baptist Church, 18th & Spring Garden, Phila
Description: View looking north at the ivy-covered church built circa 1861-1863 after designs by Alfred Biles at the northeast corner of Eighteenth and Spring Garden Streets. Also shows the front facade of the adjacent residence (1803 Spring Garden Street). Congregation organized as the Sansom Street Baptist Church by Rev. William Staughton in 1811., Title from manuscript note on photographer's 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.
Creator: R. Newell & Co.
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Religion [P.9047.85]

Title: Fifth Baptist Church, 18th & Spring Garden sts, Phila
Description: Shows the ivy-covered church built circa 1861-1863 at 1801-1803 Spring Garden Street. Also shows the adjacent residence. Congregation organized as the Sansom Street Baptist Church by Rev. William Staughton in 1811., Title from accompanying photographer's label., Green mount with rounded corners., 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.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1869]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Religion [(4)1322.F.5d]

Title: [Fifth Baptist Church]
Description: Unfinished proof showing an interior view of the Baptist church during a baptism. Parishioners fill the pews and balconies. The men, women, and children look toward a small group of individuals as they stand in front of the pulpit before they proceed to the baptismal well in the center of the church. Many of the women wear ornate bonnets. Incomplete depictions include the well and parishioners. The church, organized by Dr. William Staughton, was built 1811-1812 after the designs of Robert Mills on the 800 block of Sansom Street., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 248, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 13 F 527
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 13 F 527

Title: Philadelphia horse & carriage bazaar, S.E. corner of Ninth & George, between Walnut & Chesnut [sic] Sts. Philadelphia
Description: View of Alfred M. Herkness' circular auction house on the 800 block of George, i.e., Sansom Street. Signage adorns the building in which a man, possibly Herkness, stands in the doorway. Signs advertise the sale of horses, carriages, and harnesses "twice every week" and harnesses are tacked along the doorway. Carriages, harnessed to horses and free-standing, line the streets, and men wait at the side of the building. Also shows the neighboring Fifth Baptist Church, a man waiting on horseback, and a gentleman at the opposite street corner. Originally erected for the exhibition of a cyclorama of Jerusalem, the building was acquired by Herkness in 1847 or 48. Herkness remained at this site until 1913. Building demolished in 1915., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1848. S.E. cor. George & Ninth Sts., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 589, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 H548. Originally part of the Dreer Collection., HSP copy includes advertising text above image: Auction sales every Saturday morning. Private sales daily.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [April 1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W289 [P.2173]

Title: Dr. Staughtons, or Sansom St. Baptist church. Sansom south side east of Ninth Street, as viewed from the northwest, across the foundation walls of the new hotel on the s.e. corner of Chestnut and Ninth Street
Description: View showing the Baptist church organized by Dr. William Staughton built 1811-1812 after the designs of Robert Mills on the 800 block of Sansom Street. Also shows two men standing in front of the church, the adjacent auction house, "Herkness Bazaar, horses, carriages, harnesses &c" (s.e. cor. 9th and Sansom), and the foundation for the Continental Hotel (built 1857-1860). Church reorganized as the Fifth Baptist Church in 1824., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., One of the images 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 117. 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., See J. Thomas Scharff's and Thompson Westcott's History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884), vol. 2, p. 1309-1310 for the history of the church., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Churches and Meetinghouses - S [(4)1322.F.47e; (3)2526.F.117 (Poulson)]

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