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Presbyterian church, St. Augustine – Vintage Print

Presbyterian church, St. Augustine, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
Presbyterian church, St. Augustine, [between 1880 and 1897]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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A window into the past: Presbyterian church, St. Augustine, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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St. Augustine, founded by Spanish settlers in 1565, is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States, and this view records one of its Presbyterian churches at a time when the town was changing quickly. From the late 1880s, Henry Flagler's railroad and hotels turned the old colonial town into a winter resort, drawing wealthy visitors and new congregations. The photograph is attributed to William Henry Jackson, who photographed towns across the country for guidebooks and publications. Large glass negatives like this one, about 5 by 7 inches, capture architectural detail that smaller formats often lost.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution to Jackson based on listing as photo no. 7933 in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 7033. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsPresbyterian churches.United States--Florida--Saint Augustine.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan711 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76310

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