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Depicts religious buildings in Philadelphia and activities related to them. Includes churches of all denominations and synagogues, with a focus on exterior views and architectural elevations as well as interiors showing the chapel and altars, particularly during religious services. Includes detail...
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[ca. 1900]-1946
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Depicts religious buildings in Philadelphia and activities related to them. Includes churches of all denominations and synagogues, with a focus on exterior views and architectural elevations as well as interiors showing the chapel and altars, particularly during religious services. Includes details like stained glass windows, murals, religious articles, gravesites, and organs. Also portrays religious processions and other parades, choirs singing, and members during prayer. Contains scenes of fires and firefighting and building collapse. Portrays Cardinal Dougherty participating in masses and processions at the American Catholic Church of St. Mark, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Church of the Gesu, Holy Trinity Catholic, and St. Joseph's R.C. Church. Spiritual activities related to World War II include a sign against Hitler displayed by the Gethsemane Methodist Church, air raid equipment at St. Margaret's, servicemen at Overbrook Presbyterian, and blessing the flag at the Church of the Ascension and St. Williams Catholic. Among the notable portrayals of children are a baby breakfast at the Baptist Temple, a well baby clinic at Bethlehem Presbyterian,, children's day at John Chambers Memorial Presbyterian, and the prayer over a meal at St. Monica's. Members of the Women's Guild of the Tioga Prebyterian Church are shown sewing baby cloths. Sunday school lessons are shown in many images. Notable among them is outdoor class at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Vacation Bible School at James Evans, and students at St. James of Kingsessling visiting Woodside Park. Storefront missions pictured are the Institutional Sunday School Mission and St. Paul's Gospel Mission. Parish suppers at St. Matthews Lutheran and St. John the Baptist in Manayunk are shown (including an incredible array of cakes in Manayunk). Also depicts many festivals and holidays, tableau, and other entertainment. These subject entries for the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photo morgue are primarily for Places (buildings, parks, streets, etc.), Things (Bicycles, Bison, Blind Persons [just sampling the B's]), Events (Democratic National Convention 1936, Flourtown Fair, Harvest Week) and Social Constructs (Home Economics, City Planning, Eating & Drinking, etc.). Each of these subjects became a MARC record which included a call number. In the case of these records, the call numbers are the actual folder numbers for the materials referenced. Therefore, these subject headings are really also an index for this section of the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photograph morgue. [The name section of the Philadelphia Record photo morgue represents individuals, A-Z, and |
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Part of the Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection; for general information, see collection record. For specific names of churches, consult the inventory. Note that the names listed are not always accurate. Also, some files depict activities rather than buildings. |
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13 graphics 613 photoprints : silver gelatin; 14 photoprints 11"x 17" or smaller |