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[Arch Street] Friends' Meeting House, Philadelphia, Pa. – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Arch Street] Friends' Meeting House, Philadelphia, Pa., c[1908] — historic photograph
[Arch Street] Friends' Meeting House, Philadelphia, Pa., c[1908]. 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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Few buildings in Philadelphia are as closely tied to the Religious Society of Friends as the Arch Street Meeting House, which stood at Fourth and Arch Streets near the city's old center. Completed in 1804, it hosted the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the body that guided Quaker affairs across the region. This view dates to about 1908 and comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which issued photographs of American towns and landmarks in large numbers. Two nearly identical negatives survive, suggesting the photographer made more than one exposure of the same facade.

Created / publishedc[1908]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesNegatives are close variants. G 4111" on B negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070252. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsFriends' meeting houses.United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71838

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