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Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. – Antique Print

Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., c1899. — historic photograph
Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., c1899.. Historic photograph from the Philadelphia collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Christ Church in Philadelphia, the Anglican parish founded in the 1690s, is one of the most visited colonial buildings in the city, and this c1899 photograph records it at the turn of the century. The print carries a copyright credit to Edward J. Jones, Jr., of Watertown, Massachusetts, a photographer who made and sold views of American churches and landmarks. Christ Church's Georgian brick tower and steeple, completed in 1744, were already regarded as a model of colonial design, and by the late 1800s the building was drawing attention as a survivor of the city's earliest days. The record itself is thin, so the exact vantage point and date remain unconfirmed.

Created / publishedc1899.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsCopyright by Edward J. Jones, Jr. Watertown, Mass. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Christ Church; Churches; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,204 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139233

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