Lewis Elkin School Philadelphia - East Wing West Wing Additions - 1907 - Lloyd Titus Architect

http://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/Detail.aspx?assetId=50594

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Lewis Elkin School Philadelphia - 1904 - "D" and E Clearfield Sts. - Lloyd Titus Architect

http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display_citations_holdings.cfm/157114

http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display_alldates.cfm/157114

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Gibson Altar - Church of the Redeemer Springfield Pa.

Gibson Altar

(Photos from Church of the Redeemer's Facebook page.)

1908

Old Academy Bell - University of Penn - Philadelphia

Old Academy Bell - U of Penn. - 1752

http://drphysick.com/universitypenn.html

On March 14, 1752, two months after his commission to create a silver inkstand for the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall), a bell that Philip Syng had ordered from London arrived in Philadelphia. This bell was to be shared by the Union Fire Company that he and Franklin had founded, and, the Hand-In-Hand Fire Company. With nowhere to hang the bell, Franklin, Syng and their fellow trustees agreed that the bell would now also be shared with the Academy and hung in a steeple that would be added to the Academy's "New Building". There, it would sound fire alarms and "answer the purpose of the Academy in giving Notice to the Scholars of the Hours of Meeting." After a long and stormy history of ownership, the Academy Bell was returned to the University of Pennsylvania in 1945. Again without a belfry, it is today displayed in the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Deitrich Library.

http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/pennhistory/library/bell.html

This time the Trustees decided they had no power to act in this situation, although they had power to refuse in 1807. The wardens of St. James, being in possession, had the weight of the bell and the height of the steeple on their side, and the bell remained where it was.

In 1869 St. James was razed and a new church erected by the congregation at the comer Of 22nd and Walnut streets. The bell was moved to the new location. It no longer sounded any alarms.

In 1945 the congregation sold its property at 22nd and Walnut to the Atlantic Refining Company as the site for a filling station. Demolition was begun in April 1945. At this time, without minutes, petitions, ceremony, or special deliberation, the bell was quietly turned over to the University of Pennsylvania, largely through the efforts of Mr. William Du Barry, an officer of St. James and Vice President of the University.

For 193 years, the name used had been the "Academy Bell"--not the Union Fire Company Bell or the Hand in Hand Bell or the Phoenix Bell. Therefore the bell came back to the Academy.

The Academy at Fourth and Arch is gone; the "Presidential Palace" is gone; the fire companies are gone. Two St. Jameses are gone. But the bell and the University remain. And for the third time in its history the bell has no belfry. The Library has no belfry either, but it has an honored place for the bell, which rang the last time for the dedication of the Van Pelt wing of the Library where, as President Gaylord Harnwell announced on that occasion, "it shall remain as long as the building shall stand."

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Spire - Bas-Reliefs - St. James Episcopal Church Philadelphia - The Churchman July 6, 1895

The Churchman July 6, 1895

The Beheading - (right)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardman_%26_Co.


Hardman Drawing Design and Stained Glass

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St. James Episcopal Church Philadelphia - 22nd and Walnut Sts. -  1871-1945


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Saint James Episcopal Church - 22nd and Walnut Sts.- Philadelphia

1871

1887

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Saint JamesEpiscopal Church, 22nd and Walnut, Philadelphia

St James Church Philadelphia 

- Also (*) See comment #2 Michael J. Lewis - 2 Jan 2016 - for clarification of Architect’s credit.

NW Corner 22nd and Walnut Sts. - Present (Google Maps)

Apostle Mosaics - St. Joan of Arc Harrowgate Philly

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Repurposed Salviati Mosaics -

http://www.philadelphiaspeaks.com/forum/showthread.php/37847-Spire-Bas-Reliefs-St-James-Episcopal-Church-Philadelphia-The-Churchman-July-6-1895

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Coogan Warehousing Truck - Wilcox Truck - Philadelphia - 1912

Coogan Warehousing

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Coogan's Warehousing and Moving - Alco Trucks - 1913 - Philadelphia

Advertising - 1913

This is show specs on trucks of the period and advertising below. Further research indicates that the above Moving Truck is made by Wilcox Trux and not ALCO.

http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/tuesday_may_25_2010_the_alco_trucks

http://truck-museum.org/1910alco.html

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