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Metropolitan M.E. Church, Washington, D.C. / on stone by L. Crépon ; P.S. Duval & Co's steam lith. press, Philada. – Historic Reproduction

Metropolitan M.E. Church, Washington, D.C. / on stone by L. Crépon ; P.S. Duval & Co's steam lith. press, Philada., c1855. — antique lithograph
Metropolitan M.E. Church, Washington, D.C. / on stone by L. Crépon ; P.S. Duval & Co's steam lith. press, Philada., c1855.. Antique lithograph from the Religious 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: Metropolitan M.E. Church, Washington, D.C. / on stone by L. Crépon ; P.S. Duval & Co's steam lith. press, Philada., preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Metropolitan M.E. Church, Washington, D.C. / on stone by L. Crépon ; P.S. Duval & Co's steam lith. press, Philada.

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The Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church is the subject here, a building that served one of the more prominent Methodist congregations in the national capital. Lithographer L. Crépon drew the image on stone, and the color print was produced at the Philadelphia steam lithographic press of P. S. Duval & Co., one of the leading lithography firms of the 1850s. Views like this one were often sold to congregations, members and visitors as keepsakes, and they record how a church presented itself to the city in the years before the Civil War. The print's copyright notice names Dr. William M. D. Ryan, whose role is recorded here but whose connection to the church is not described in the record.

Created / publishedc1855.
Medium1 print : lithograph, color ; 39 x 26 7/8 in.
GenreLithographs Color 1850-1860.
NotesCopyright by Dr. Wm. M. D. Ryan.
SubjectsChurches--Washington (D.C.)--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,482 × 1,850 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219379

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