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- Title
- Zion Lutheran Church postcards
- Description
- Architectural plans of the first floor of the church at Front Street and Fischer Avenue prepared by the firm of Ritcher & Eiler, Reading Pennsylvania., Sheet number: 50B14., Real photos. Undivided backs., 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. Michael's Ev. Luth. Church
- Description
- Exterior view of church located in Allentown, Pennsylvania., Sheet number: 50B12., Undivided back. Post marked 1907., 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. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
- Title
- [Old Trappe Church, Trappe, Pa.]
- Description
- Exterior view of the Old Trappe Church, also known as Augustus Lutheran Church, the oldest, continuously used Lutheran Church in the United States. The cornerstone of the building was laid during the pastorship of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, in 1743, but the church was not completed until 1745. Includes a man reading a dedicatory stone above the entrance archway., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
- Creator
- Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.214]
- Title
- Trinity Lutheran Church, Germantown Ave. & Queen Lane, 1857. Steeple after design by Christopher Wren. Clock purchased by public subscription, was first "town clock" of Germantown
- Description
- Exterior view of front facade and steeple of church built in 1857 at Germantown Avenue and Queen Lane. Steeple constructed after designs by Christopher Wren., Photograph depicted on post card taken by J.F. Morsello., Sheet number: 101B06., 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. 1905
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Churches - 101]
- Title
- Confirmations-Schein Es wird hiermit bescheinigt, dass [blank] nachdem [blank] in den Grundlehren und Pflichten der christlichen Religion gehorig unterrichtet, durch die Confirmation in die wolle Gemeinschaft der [blank] aufgenommen worden ist, den [blank] im Jahre unseres Herrn Ein Tausend Acht hHundert und [blank]
- Description
- Confirmation certificate issued by the Reformed Church containing a scene of a confirmation class, Biblical passages, a confirmation poem, and text in German. Scene depicts a pastor at the altar of a church attending to four men and a woman kneeling in prayer in front of him. Also shows curved stairways in the background and the baptismal font in the foreground. Bible passages include Isaiah 54:10, Matthew 11:28, Deuteronomy 29:9, Mark 8:34, and Rev. 2:10. Also contains an ornamental border., Johanna Dorothea Wollenweber is listed at this address in Philadelphia directories from 1858 to 1864; Schnabel & Finkeldey is listed from 1858 to 1863., Printed area, including ornament border, measures 22.6 x 17.6 cm., Not: in Wainwright., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Polly Rieth, confirmed May 6, 1858, by Rev. Augustus Bergner in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Upper Mahantango, Pa., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 43
- Date
- [ca. 1858]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1858 Confirm 14332.Q (Roughwood)
- Title
- Franklin Square Lutheran Church, Phila., Pa
- Description
- Exterior view of St. Michael Zion Lutheran Church dedicated in 1870 at 240 North Franklin Street. View partially obscured by trees in Franklin Square. Demolished in 1973., Title on negative., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Religion [P.9778]
- Title
- Old St. Michaels Church, (German Lutheran) on the southeast corner of Fifth and Cherry St. The grounds bounded on the south by Appletree Alley
- Description
- View showing the church also known as the Old Lutheran Church built 1743-1748 on the 100 block of North Fifth Street. Also shows the church and church burial ground enclosed by a brick wall and a partial view of buildings on Appletree Alley in the background., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Compass directions given in manuscript on mount., 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 109. 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.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- March 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Churches and Meetinghouses - S [(3)2526.F.109 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f109.jpg
- Title
- Deutsche Lutherische Zions Kirche = German Lutheran Zion Church, Phila Erhaut 1766. Abgebrandt und wieder erhaut 1794. Thurm ausgebaut und kirches verbefsert 1846. = Built 1766 and rebuilt 1794. Steeple finished & church repaired & improved 1846
- Description
- View of the Zion Lutheran Church, also known as the New Lutheran Church, rebuilt 1794-1796 at Cherry and North Fourth streets following a fire in 1794. Church altered with a steeple after the designs of Joseph D. Koecker in 1846. Steeple includes a clock and an iron fence surrounds the building. Church originally built 1766-1769 after the designs of Robert Smith. Also shows partial views of neighboring buildings and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians include a man pointing out the church to a couple and people conversing near a dog., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 300, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 134 Z 79
- Creator
- French, John Taylor, 1822-1852, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1846]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 134 Z 79
- Title
- Deutsche Ev: Luth: Zions Kirche. (gegrundt 1766.) = The German Lutheran Zion Church. (founded 1766.)
- Description
- View of the Zion Lutheran Church, also known as the New Lutheran Church, rebuilt 1794-1796 at Cherry and North Fourth streets following a fire in 1794. Church originally built 1766-1769 after the designs of Robert Smith. Also shows a partial view of neighboring buildings and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians include a boy, and women carrying parasols and baskets., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 181, Gift of David Doret.
- Creator
- Breton, William L., lithographer
- Date
- [1829]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches & meetinghouses [P.2005.20]
- Title
- [Interior of the Old Trappe Church, showing a minister directing the religious service, Trappe, Pa.]
- Description
- Interior view of the Old Trappe Church, also known as Augustus Lutheran Church, showing a minister directing the religious service from a wooden pulpit. Members of the church hold hymn books in pews below. The cornerstone of the church was laid in 1743, during the pastorship of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, but was not completed until 1745. Purportedly the oldest, continuously used Lutheran church in the United States., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
- Creator
- Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1895
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.179]
- Title
- Krauth, Charles P., 1797-1867
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- June 7, 1830
- Title
- Saint John's Lutheran Church, Philadelphia
- Description
- Views showing the exterior and interior of the church built 1809 partially after the designs of Frederick Graff at 511-523 Race Street. Depicts the front elevation of the building; the pulpit designed by Frederick Graff and sculpted by William Rush; pews; and partial views of galleries. Views also include a clergymen, presumably Rev. Joseph A. Seiss, in his clerical robes standing at the pulpit and a man, possibly a church elder, seated near the altar. Also contains reproductions of a drawing of the "Interior of St. John's Church, North View." Interior of the church altered 1847-1848 after the designs of William Johnston., Nine of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Contains five stereographic prints mounted on yellow or white paper mounts with square corners, including two with printed titles, one [1322.F.22c], hand-colored, and one accompanied by a publisher's label describing the building and history of the congregation. Also contains an unmounted carte de visite print, a carte de visite, an unmounted stereographic print, and two albumens mounted on cardboard, hand-colored, including one inscribed: From John A. McAllister., (4)1322.F.23b and P.8910.12 are duplicates., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
- Creator
- McAllister & Brother
- Date
- March 1861, c1861
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.22a-d;(4)1322.F.23a; (4)1322.F.92e], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McAllister & Bro. [(4)1322.F.23b; P.8910.12], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Bro. [(4)1322.F.22bx & 23bx]