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Title: Interior of St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia
Description: Shows the pulpit of the Episcopal church built 1822-1823 after the designs of William Strickland at 19 South 10th Street. View includes stained glass windows., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Title printed on mount., Buff mount with square corners., Location from inscription on verso., 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., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Religion [(4)1322.F.96h]

Title: Interior of St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia
Description: Shows the pulpit of the Episcopal church built 1822-1823 after the designs of William Strickland at 19 South 10th Street. View includes stained glass windows., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Title printed on mount., Buff mount with square corners., Location from inscription on verso., 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., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Religion [(4)1322.F.96h]

Title: Interior of St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia
Description: Shows the pulpit of the Episcopal church built 1822-1823 after the designs of William Strickland at 19 South 10th Street. View includes stained glass windows., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Title printed on mount., Buff mount with square corners., Location from inscription on verso., 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., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Religion [(4)1322.F.96h]

Title: St. Stephen's Church (Episcopal). Dr. Duchachett [sic], rector. Tenth St. East side corner of College Avenue The broken ground &c in foreground, is the remains at the time the picture was taken, of the old wooden houses now removing to give place to a new market house
Description: Date inscribed on photograph., Tile and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: See next picture., View showing the Protestant Episcopal church built 1822-1823 after the designs of William Strickland at 19 South 10th Street. Also shows the construction site for the Franklin Market in the foreground., 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 49. 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., 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. 39., Arcadia caption text: St. Stephen’s Church represents another magnificent church structure added to the cityscape of Philadelphia during the 19th century. Built 1822-1823 at 19 South Tenth Street after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland, the Gothic-style Episcopal church houses two monuments bequeathed by devout parishioner and lawyer Edward Shippen Burd. The lower view shows one of the monuments, Burd’s tomb, designed by architect Frank Wills and installed after his death in 1848. The exterior view shows the construction site opposite the church for the Franklin Market, begun in 1859.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Churches and Meetinghouses - S [(3)2526.F.49 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f49.jpg

Title: Saint Stephen's Church, Philadelphia
Description: Interior views of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1822-1823 after the designs of William Strickland at 19 South 10th Street. Shows minister, presumably Rev. Henry William Ducachet, in his clerical robes at the ornate church altar, the communion table, stained-glass windows, plaques adorned with scripture, the baptismal fount sculpture, and partial views of galleries and pews. Also includes views of the ornate tomb of Philadelphia lawyer Edward Shippen Burd designed by architect Frank Wills and the Burd Family Monument designed by Carl Steinhauser in memory of Burd's children. Family monument, composed of figures representing the three deceased Burd children and the Angel of Resurrection near a large cross, was erected in 1853 in the chapel on the north side of the church., Seven of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Contains six stereographic prints mounted on yellow or white paper mounts with square corners, including three with printed titles, one accompanied by a publisher's label describing the church, one [(4)1322.G.96g], hand-colored, and two accompanied by descriptive labels. Also contain a one-half stereographic print mounted on paper and a carte-de-visite., One of the images [P.9047.102] 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. 39., Arcadia caption text: St. Stephen’s Church represents another magnificent church structure added to the cityscape of Philadelphia during the 19th century. Built 1822-1823 at 19 South Tenth Street after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland, the Gothic-style Episcopal church houses two monuments bequeathed by devout parishioner and lawyer Edward Shippen Burd. The lower view shows one of the monuments, Burd’s tomb, designed by architect Frank Wills and installed after his death in 1848. The exterior view shows the construction site opposite the church for the Franklin Market, begun in 1859., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: October 1860, c1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.34a; (4)1322.F.96a, d, dx, f & g; (4)1322.F.97a & b; P.9047.102], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.96c]

Title: Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House steeple. West
Description: Panoramic view looking west toward West Philadelphia past the Schuykill River predominately showing the area between Arch Street and Gray's Ferry Avenue. Includes U.S. Naval Asylum, 2420 Gray's Ferry Avenue (1); [Blockley] Alms House, S. 34th and Pine streets (2); Peale's Museum, 100 block S. 9th Street (3); Walnut Street Theatre, 827-833 Walnut Street (4); Cook's Circus, i.e., Thomas Cooke's equestrian circus, 800 block of Chestnut Street (5); St. John's Church, i.e., St. John the Evangelist Church, 23-25 S. 13th Street (6); St. Stephen's Church, 19 S. 10th Street (7); University of Pennsylvania, Ninth Street below Market Street (8); [Beck's] Shot Tower, 21st and Cherry streets (9); Inst. for the Blind, 200 block Race Street (10); Water Works, Fairmount (11); East. Penitentiary, 2100-2199 Fairmount Avenue (13); Arcade, 615-619 Chestnut Street (14); and Chestnut St. Theatre, 603-609 Chestnut Street (15). Also shows part of Independence Square, Congress Hall, Marshall House hotel (625-631), residences on the 100 block of S. 6th Street, and the rooftops of several city blocks., Plate 3 of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. WIld & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five numbers of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty view under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year., First state., Key to 15 landmarks printed below the image., Upper right corner missing, including cited landmark "Waterman's Church.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 542.d.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: *P.2155 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W267.1 [P.2155]

Title: Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House Steeple. West
Description: Panoramic view looking west toward West Philadelphia past the Schuykill River predominately showing the area between Arch Street and Gray's Ferry Avenue. Includes U.S. Naval Asylum, 2420 Gray's Ferry Avenue (1); [Blockley] Alms House, S. 34th and Pine streets (2); Peale's Museum, 100 block S. 9th Street (3); Walnut Street Theatre, 827-833 Walnut Street (4); Cook's Circus, i.e., Thomas Cooke's equestrian circus, 800 block of Chestnut Street (5); St. John's Church, i.e., St. John the Evangelist Church, 23-25 S. 13th Street (6); St. Stephen's Church, 19 S. 10th Street (7); University of Pennsylvania, Ninth Street below Market Street (8); [Beck's] Shot Tower, 21st and Cherry streets (9); Inst. for the Blind, 200 block Race Street (10); Water Works, Fairmount (11); [Thomas T.] Waterman's Church, i.e., Arch Street Presbyterian Church, 1006 Arch Street (12); East. Penitentiary, 2100-2199 Fairmount Avenue (13); Arcade, 615-619 Chestnut Street (14); and Chestnut St. Theatre, 603-609 Chestnut Street (15). Also shows part of Independence Square, Congress Hall, Marshall House hotel (625-631), residences on the 100 block of S. 6th Street, and the rooftops of several city blocks., Plate 3 of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five numbers of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty views under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen. LCP copies lacking copyright statement., Second state., Partial key to 8 of 15 landmarks (1-4, 8-12) printed below the image. Copy trimmed., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 542.d.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: *8236.F.4 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush), Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 862 W 6441 front, Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W267.2 [8236.F.4]

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