[Old St. John's Church, Richmond, Va.] – Antique Print
![[Old St. John's Church, Richmond, Va.], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/46/466ec8fe798c-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with [Old St. John's Church, Richmond, Va.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Old St. John's Church, Richmond, Va.]
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Old St. John's Church stands on a hill in Richmond, Virginia, with its churchyard cemetery around it, and this view shows the building as it appeared in the early twentieth century. The small frame church is best known as the site of Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty, or give me death" speech in March 1775, when the Second Virginia Convention met there to debate resistance to British rule. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that made large numbers of views of American towns and landmarks, produced this 8 by 10 inch glass negative, which captures the church and its gravestones as they stood before the city grew up around them.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Title from jacket. G 7959" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500381. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Churches. Cemeteries.United States--Virginia--Richmond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 786 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-74761 |
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