Location: Fourth Street bet. Locust and Spruce, west side., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Reaccessioned as P.2203., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb131 S146., Built 1763.
Creator
Breton, William L. lithographer., creator
Date
ca. 1829.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W370.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W370 [6548.F]
View showing the rectangular front facade, red-brick Roman Catholic church built 1763 and enlarged 1810-1811 (Charles Johnson, master carpenter) at 242-250 S. 4th Street. Crucifixes, arched windows and entrances, and a tablet reading "Founded 1763 Enlarged 1810" adorn the building protected by a brick wall with iron work fencing and gates. Well-dressed men and women, including two women with parasols and a mother and child, walk outside the church property. Cellar doors jut out from the brick wall and a fire hydrant is visible on the sidewalk. Also shows the side of the church and alley in addition to partial views of neighboring buildings., Inscribed on recto: 1830., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 88, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Reaccessioned as P.2203., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 131 S146.
Creator
Breton, William L., artist
Date
[ca. 1829]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W370 [6548.F]
Confirmation and Holy Commmunion certificate containing an interior view showing the ornate altar of the Roman Catholic church built 1763 and enlarged 1810-1811 (Charles Johnson, master carpenter) at 242-250 S. 4th Street. Includes a large crucifix carved circa 1810 by William Rush behind the altar; the baptismal font; alcoves with holy figure sculptures; a ceiling mural of the Virgin Mary; and the pews and balconies. St. Marys served as the city's first Catholic Cathedral 1810-1837., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 121, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Old St. Mary
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Old St. Mary
View looking south on Fourth Street from above Locust Street showing the several residences. Includes the King Louis-Philippe residence (236 S. 4th); the Shippen-Wistar residence built circa 1765 (238 S. 4th); the Norris-Cadwalader residence built circa 1828 (240 S. 4th); and St. Mary's Church built 1763 (242-250 S. 4th). Job R. Tyson, was a Philadelphia attorney and politician., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on recto., Compass directions inscribed on mount., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: see p. 95., 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 11. 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., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., McClees 1858-15., 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
1858
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Streets - F [8339.F.33]
