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Pictures of Meetinghouses - City of Philadelphia
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Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Inlcudes photos, postcards, news articles and printed/original drawings of different meetinghouses around Philadelphia. List of meetinghouses featured: Arch Street, Bank Street, Center Square, Cherry Street, Chestnut Hill, Frankford (Unity and Waln Sts), Frankford (Penn and Orthodox Sts), Free Quakers, Fourth Street, Front Street, Fair Hill, Germantown (School Lane), Germantown (Coulter Street), Girard Avenue, Green Street and School, High Street, Merion, North Meeting, Orange Street Meeting, Pine Street Meeting, Powelton Avenue Meeting, Race Street Meeting, Spruce Street, Twelfth Street Meeting, West Philadelphia (35th and Lancaster), West Philadelphia (42nd and Powelton), Fairhill Indulged.
Materials are arranged alphabetically by name of meetinghouse
Organization
- Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Frankford Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite)
- Frankford Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox)
- Society of Free Quakers
- Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.). Fair Hill Friends' Meeting
- Germantown Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1877-1914)
- Germantown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox)
- Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.). Girard Avenue Indulged Meeting
- Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Merion Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends)
- Orange Grove Monthly Meeting
- Powelton Preparative Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia held at Spruce Street (Hicksite : 1833-1903)
- Twelfth Street Meeting House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
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Collection Inventory
Located at Arch and 4th Sts. 3 folders. 47 photos, 34 post cards, 6 printed photos, 2 news articles, and 7 printed drawings and 1 original drawing. 13 pictures of interior and 39 of exterior. Interior image with people named of yearly meeting of 1900 and 1955. People pictured in 21 photos and prints. Post cards are mostly duplicates with only 7 variations. Also see Coll. 913, glass slides. 1894 news article of The Friend and 1900 article of The American Friend.
Located in Bank St. 1 folder. 2 photos of drawings and 3 printed drawings. All exterior. People pictured.
1 folder. 5 copies of printed drawings. All exterior. No people pictured. Note penciled on a print: "This sketch is probably not authentic, see The Friend (Phila), 63 (1889): 109."
Located at 5th and Cherry Sts. Built in 1827. Hicksite meeting. 1 folder. 1 photo and 1 printed drawing. All exterior. People pictured. Photo is of the same drawing as the printed.
Located in 100 East Mermaid Lane. Built in 1931. Hicksite and Orthodox meeting. 1 folder. 2 printed photos, news articles, and 1 printed drawing. News articles from Fund Appeal, The Public Ledger, and The Friend. All visuals accompany articles, which were written announcing the opening of new Meeting House.
Located at Unity and Waln Sts. Built in 1775. Hicksite meeting. 1 folder. 14 photos, 5 post cards, 1 news article, and one printed drawing. All exterior. People pictured in 1 photo. News article is a bulletin from 1938 explaining youth activities such as music, theatre, and "manual training" for young people as well as upcoming forums and guest lecturers planned for the entire meeting.
Located at Penn and Orthodox Sts. Orthodox meeting. 1 folder. 5 photos and 1 news article. All exterior. No people pictured. Article on the centennial anniversary announcement (1933).
Located at 5th and Arch St. Built in 1783. 1 folder. 5 photos, 3 printed photos, and news articles from Philadelphia Inquirer Mag. All exterior. People pictured in news article. 1 black and white negative exterior shot. Article re restoration dated Dec. 29, 1957, is entitled "Free Quaker's Meeting House on 5th and Arch to Be Moved and Restored," with sketches and photos.
Located at 4th and Chestnut Sts. Built in 1765. 1 folder. 5 photos, 5 printed drawings and 1 original drawing. All exterior. People pictured. 3 photos and 2 of the prints are of a stone-etching/lithograph by W.L. Breton, 1829, and 1 drawing is a copy of that etching. 1 of the prints includes a history of the school. Also referred to as the Penn Charter School.
Located on Front St. Built in 1683. 1 folder. 1 photo and 2 printed photos. No people pictured. All visuals are of the same plaque, which reads, "The first Friends' Meeting House in Philadelphia, built in 1683 of pine boards from New York, stood about 36 feet north of this maker..." (PA assembly, Wm. Penn, and County Courts)
Located at Germantown Ave and Cambria St. Built in 1703. 1 folder. 5 photos, 3 programs for 250th anniversary (1953), and 3 printed drawing copies. All exterior. No people pictured. Burial place of Lucretia Mott.
Located in School Lane, Germantown. Built in 1848. Hicksite meeting. 1 folder. 5 photos and 2 post cards. All exterior. People pictured in 1 photo.
Located in Coulter Street, Germantown. Built in 1865. Orthodox meeting. 21 photos, 7 post cards, 3 printed photos, and 1 printed drawing. All but 1 exterior. People pictured in printed drawing. All but one of post cards are duplicates. 5 negatives.
Located at 17th Street and Girard. Built in 1871. Hicksite meeting. 1 folder. 4 photos and 2 post cards. All exterior. People pictured in one picture, blurry.
Located at SE corner of 4th and Green Sts. Hicksite meeting. 1 folder. 7 photos, 3 post cards, and 2 printed photos. 4 interior and 7 exterior.
Located at 2nd and Market (originally High St.). Built in 1695. 1 folder. 7 photos, 2 post cards, 6 printed drawings, 1 printed original drawing, and 1 letter. All exterior. People pictured. All photos, prints, and post cards are of drawings from basically the same vantage point. Also called the Great MH or Market St. MH. Letter from Bob Wilson detailing history.
Located at 54th and Lancaster Ave. Orthodox meeting. 1 folder. 4 photos. All exterior. People pictured in 1. Photos consist of 2 cyanotypes and their shrunken, black and white reproductions. Also called Blockley.
Located at 6th and Noble Sts. Built in 1838. 1 folder. 6 photos, 8 post cards, and 9 printed photos. All but 3 exterior. Ann Fry pictured (distant). Each contents category includes a number of duplicates, 9 different pictures in all.
Located at 8th and Orange [Manning] Streets. Built in 1832 (torn down, 1911). Orthodox meeting. 1 folder. 8 photos, 5 post cards, 4 printed photos, news articles from Philadelphia Inquirer (1936) and artist's sketch of MH, and 1 printed drawing. 17 exterior and 1 interior. People pictured in 1 photo. News article (pictures only): "Philadelphia Then and Now" w/ MH sketch and a photo of the Farm Journal bldg. there now. "For historical account of the meeting see The Friend, vols. IXII - LXIII." Mtg. for the Southern District. Site of Cadbury wedding.
Located at Pine and 2nd Sts. Built in 1753. 1 folder. 1 photo and 6 printed drawings. All exterior. No people pictured. Printed sketches are all identical.
Located at 3309 Baring Street. 1 folder. 2 photos. All exterior. No people pictured.
Located at Race and 15th Sts. Built in 1856. Hicksite meeting. 1 folder. 5 photos, 6 post cards, 2 printed photos, and 3 printed lithograph drawings. All exterior. People pictured in litographs and post card.
Located at 9th and Spruce Streets. Built post separation. 1 folder. 1 photos and 3 post cards. All exterior. No people pictured.
Located on 12th St., below Market. Built in 1813. 1 folder. 5 photos, 6 post cards, and 6 printed photos. All exterior. People pictured. 2 of the photos are of a drawing, the 6 prints are duplicates. This was the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Western District.
Located at 35th and Lancaster Ave. Built in 1851. Hicksite meeting. 1 folder. 1 photo, 3 post cards, and news articles from Friend's Intelligencer re 100th anniversary. No people pictured.
Located at 42nd St. and Powelton Ave. Built in 1873. Orthodox meeting. 1 folder. 3 photos. All exterior. No people pictured.
Located in Germantown and Cambria. Built ca. 1880. Hicksite meeting. 1 post card.