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Contains 11 Results:

Arch Street

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Located at Arch and 4th Sts. 3 folders. 47 photos, 34 post cards, 6 printed photos, 2 news articles, and 7 printed drawings and 1 original drawing. 13 pictures of interior and 39 of exterior. Interior image with people named of yearly meeting of 1900 and 1955. People pictured in 21 photos and prints. Post cards are mostly duplicates with only 7 variations. Also see Coll. 913, glass slides. 1894 news article of The Friend and 1900 article of The American Friend.

Bank Street

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Located in Bank St. 1 folder. 2 photos of drawings and 3 printed drawings. All exterior. People pictured.

Center Square

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1 folder. 5 copies of printed drawings. All exterior. No people pictured. Note penciled on a print: "This sketch is probably not authentic, see The Friend (Phila), 63 (1889): 109."

Cherry St.

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Located at 5th and Cherry Sts. Built in 1827. Hicksite meeting. 1 folder. 1 photo and 1 printed drawing. All exterior. People pictured. Photo is of the same drawing as the printed.

Chestnut Hill

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Located in 100 East Mermaid Lane. Built in 1931. Hicksite and Orthodox meeting. 1 folder. 2 printed photos, news articles, and 1 printed drawing. News articles from Fund Appeal, The Public Ledger, and The Friend. All visuals accompany articles, which were written announcing the opening of new Meeting House.

Frankford (Hicksite)

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Located at Unity and Waln Sts. Built in 1775. Hicksite meeting. 1 folder. 14 photos, 5 post cards, 1 news article, and one printed drawing. All exterior. People pictured in 1 photo. News article is a bulletin from 1938 explaining youth activities such as music, theatre, and "manual training" for young people as well as upcoming forums and guest lecturers planned for the entire meeting.

Frankford (Orthodox)

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Located at Penn and Orthodox Sts. Orthodox meeting. 1 folder. 5 photos and 1 news article. All exterior. No people pictured. Article on the centennial anniversary announcement (1933).

Free Quakers

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Located at 5th and Arch St. Built in 1783. 1 folder. 5 photos, 3 printed photos, and news articles from Philadelphia Inquirer Mag. All exterior. People pictured in news article. 1 black and white negative exterior shot. Article re restoration dated Dec. 29, 1957, is entitled "Free Quaker's Meeting House on 5th and Arch to Be Moved and Restored," with sketches and photos.

Fourth Street

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Located at 4th and Chestnut Sts. Built in 1765. 1 folder. 5 photos, 5 printed drawings and 1 original drawing. All exterior. People pictured. 3 photos and 2 of the prints are of a stone-etching/lithograph by W.L. Breton, 1829, and 1 drawing is a copy of that etching. 1 of the prints includes a history of the school. Also referred to as the Penn Charter School.

Front St.

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Located on Front St. Built in 1683. 1 folder. 1 photo and 2 printed photos. No people pictured. All visuals are of the same plaque, which reads, "The first Friends' Meeting House in Philadelphia, built in 1683 of pine boards from New York, stood about 36 feet north of this maker..." (PA assembly, Wm. Penn, and County Courts)