New Lutheran Church, in Fourth Street, Philadelphia – Vintage Wall Art
(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 New Lutheran Church, in Fourth Street, Philadelphia, an antique engraving rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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New Lutheran Church, in Fourth Street, Philadelphia
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Few Philadelphia churches of the period were as visible to passersby as this one on Fourth Street, which the engraving presents as a substantial new building in a busy city. William Birch and his son Thomas issued a set of hand-colored views of Philadelphia in 1800, and this plate is one of them. The city then had a large German-speaking population, and Lutheran congregations were among its established religious communities. The coloring and street-level view also offer a glimpse of how the neighborhood looked at the turn of the nineteenth century.
| Created / published | 1800 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving, hand-colored. |
| Subjects | Hand-colored engraving by Wm. Birch & Son. Illus. in: The City of Philadelphia...as It Appeared in the Year 1800..., 1800. Plate 6. Ref. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; Churhces; Pa.--Philadelphia(3); Artists, P.I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,199 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110138 |
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