Downingtown Friends Meeting House, 800 East Lancaster Avenue, Downingt...
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Frankford (Preparative) Friends Meeting House, Corner of Unity & Waln ...
Significance: The original portion of the Frankford Preparative Friends Meeting House was erected in 1775-76, making it the oldest Friends meeting house in Philadelphia. Although the construction of meeting hou... More
Frankford (Preparative) Friends Meeting House, Corner of Unity & Waln ...
Significance: The original portion of the Frankford Preparative Friends Meeting House was erected in 1775-76, making it the oldest Friends meeting house in Philadelphia. Although the construction of meeting hou... More
[Cumberland Landing, Virginia Gens. Andrew A. Humphreys, Henry W. Sloc...
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.
Caln Friends Meeting House, Northeast corner of Kings Highway (Route 3...
Significance: Built in 1784 and extended in 1801, Caln Meeting House poses an unusual solution to the need to accommodate a quarterly meeting. The Caln Friends chose to expand their meeting space by adding onto... More
Caln Friends Meeting House, Northeast corner of Kings Highway (Route 3...
Significance: Built in 1784 and extended in 1801, Caln Meeting House poses an unusual solution to the need to accommodate a quarterly meeting. The Caln Friends chose to expand their meeting space by adding onto... More
Caln Friends Meeting House, Northeast corner of Kings Highway (Route 3...
Significance: Built in 1784 and extended in 1801, Caln Meeting House poses an unusual solution to the need to accommodate a quarterly meeting. The Caln Friends chose to expand their meeting space by adding onto... More
Caln Friends Meeting House, Northeast corner of Kings Highway (Route 3...
Significance: Built in 1784 and extended in 1801, Caln Meeting House poses an unusual solution to the need to accommodate a quarterly meeting. The Caln Friends chose to expand their meeting space by adding onto... More
Caln Friends Meeting House, Northeast corner of Kings Highway (Route 3...
Significance: Built in 1784 and extended in 1801, Caln Meeting House poses an unusual solution to the need to accommodate a quarterly meeting. The Caln Friends chose to expand their meeting space by adding onto... More
Exeter Friends Meeting House, State Route 662 (Exeter Township), Stone...
Significance: The Exeter Friends Meeting House is a good example of the small stone meeting house built by Quakers in Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this st... More
Lower Alloways Creek Friends Meeting House, Hancocks Bridge, Salem Cou...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N631 Survey number: HABS NJ-1236
Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse, Landenburg-Wilmington Road, Corner Ke...
Significance: A typical Delaware mid-nineteenth century rural Friends' meetinghouse with interesting details and pleasant surroundings. Survey number: HABS DE-161 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Co... More
Arney's Mount Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Juliustown & ...
Significance: Arney's Mount Friends Meeting House, erected of local Bog Iron stone between 1775 and 1776, represents a particularly domestic-looking meeting house form. The development of this form was likely a... More
Arney's Mount Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Juliustown & ...
Significance: Arney's Mount Friends Meeting House, erected of local Bog Iron stone between 1775 and 1776, represents a particularly domestic-looking meeting house form. The development of this form was likely a... More
Arney's Mount Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Juliustown & ...
Significance: Arney's Mount Friends Meeting House, erected of local Bog Iron stone between 1775 and 1776, represents a particularly domestic-looking meeting house form. The development of this form was likely a... More
Merion Friends Meeting House, 615 Montgomery Avenue (changed from Mont...
Significance: The construction of Merion began as early as 1695 and was completed by 1715, making it the oldest Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley. Its near cruciform plan is unprecedented in a Friend... More
Merion Friends Meeting House, 615 Montgomery Avenue (changed from Mont...
Significance: The construction of Merion began as early as 1695 and was completed by 1715, making it the oldest Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley. Its near cruciform plan is unprecedented in a Friend... More
Merion Friends Meeting House, 615 Montgomery Avenue (changed from Mont...
Significance: The construction of Merion began as early as 1695 and was completed by 1715, making it the oldest Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley. Its near cruciform plan is unprecedented in a Friend... More
Merion Friends Meeting House, 615 Montgomery Avenue (changed from Mont...
Significance: The construction of Merion began as early as 1695 and was completed by 1715, making it the oldest Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley. Its near cruciform plan is unprecedented in a Friend... More
Merion Friends Meeting House, 615 Montgomery Avenue (changed from Mont...
Significance: The construction of Merion began as early as 1695 and was completed by 1715, making it the oldest Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley. Its near cruciform plan is unprecedented in a Friend... More
Merion Friends Meeting House, 615 Montgomery Avenue (changed from Mont...
Significance: The construction of Merion began as early as 1695 and was completed by 1715, making it the oldest Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley. Its near cruciform plan is unprecedented in a Friend... More
Merion Friends Meeting House, 615 Montgomery Avenue (changed from Mont...
Significance: The construction of Merion began as early as 1695 and was completed by 1715, making it the oldest Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley. Its near cruciform plan is unprecedented in a Friend... More
Buckingham Friends Meeting House, 5684 York Road, Lahaska, Bucks Count...
Significance: Completed in 1768, Buckingham Friends Meeting House is the earliest known example of the doubled type that became a conventional form for American Friends meeting hoses for nearly a century. While... More
Buckingham Friends Meeting House, 5684 York Road, Lahaska, Bucks Count...
Significance: Completed in 1768, Buckingham Friends Meeting House is the earliest known example of the doubled type that became a conventional form for American Friends meeting hoses for nearly a century. While... More
Buckingham Friends Meeting House, 5684 York Road, Lahaska, Bucks Count...
Significance: Completed in 1768, Buckingham Friends Meeting House is the earliest known example of the doubled type that became a conventional form for American Friends meeting hoses for nearly a century. While... More
Evesham Friends Meeting House, Mount Laurel Road, Mount Laurel, Burlin...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-68 Survey number: HABS NJ-31 Building/structure dates: 1760 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1798 Subsequent Work
West Philadelphia Friends Meeting House, 3500 Lancaster Avenue at Thir...
Significance: In the nineteenth century, Friends of the middle and upper socio-economic classes left the Center City Philadelphia area and moved out toward the city's suburbs. While the wealthier Friends chose... More
Westtown Friends Meeting House, Westtown School, east side, Westtown, ...
Significance: A rare architect-designed meeting house, the Westtown Friends Meeting House was constructed in 1929. Walter F. Price was the architect in charge; Price later designed the Florida Avenue Meeting Ho... More
"Good-bye, good friends, good-bye, we go to do or die," steamer Rosali...
Photograph shows steamer Rosalie at dock. Stereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley - Keystone View Co. No. 9064. Caption card tracings: Gold Traveling to; Steamboats Misc. ROSALIE; Wash. Seattle.
Roaring Creek Friends Meeting House, Quaker Meeting Road, Numidia, Col...
Significance: Roaring Creek Meeting House, built in 1795, is of interest for both its log construction and its two-cell design with unequally sized meeting rooms. The latter was indicative of an early English p... More
Roaring Creek Friends Meeting House, Quaker Meeting Road, Numidia, Col...
Significance: Roaring Creek Meeting House, built in 1795, is of interest for both its log construction and its two-cell design with unequally sized meeting rooms. The latter was indicative of an early English p... More
New West Grove Friends Meeting House, State Road, near Guernsey Road, ...
The address was changed from "New Harmony Road" to "State Road, near Guernsey Road" to more accurately reflect its location. 1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Survey number: HABS PA-6665 Buildi... More
New West Grove Friends Meeting House, State Road, near Guernsey Road, ...
The address was changed from "New Harmony Road" to "State Road, near Guernsey Road" to more accurately reflect its location. 1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Survey number: HABS PA-6665 Buildi... More
New West Grove Friends Meeting House, State Road, near Guernsey Road, ...
The address was changed from "New Harmony Road" to "State Road, near Guernsey Road" to more accurately reflect its location. 1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Survey number: HABS PA-6665 Buildi... More
Little Egg Harbor Friends Meeting House, West Main & North Green Stree...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N815 Survey number: HABS NJ-1118 Building/structure dates: 1863 Initial Construction
Little Egg Harbor Friends Meeting House, West Main & North Green Stree...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N815 Survey number: HABS NJ-1118 Building/structure dates: 1863 Initial Construction
Little Egg Harbor Friends Meeting House, West Main & North Green Stree...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N815 Survey number: HABS NJ-1118 Building/structure dates: 1863 Initial Construction
West Grove Friends Meeting House, 153 East Harmony Road, West Grove, C...
Significance: Erected in 1903, West Grove Meeting House is an example of a meeting house type that became common within the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting during the early twentieth century. Friends held an organ... More
Abington (Orthodox) Friends Meetinghouse, Jenkintown Road across from ...
Significance: Built in 1836, Abington Friends Meeting House reflects patterns of design found in the single-cell meeting house built during the period of early settlement in the Delaware Valley, but not frequen... More
Abington (Orthodox) Friends Meetinghouse, Jenkintown Road across from ...
Significance: Built in 1836, Abington Friends Meeting House reflects patterns of design found in the single-cell meeting house built during the period of early settlement in the Delaware Valley, but not frequen... More
Plymouth Friends Meeting House, Corner of Germantown & Butler Pikes, P...
The documentation for HABS PA-179 belongs to this record. It is incorrectly identified as Quaker Meetinghouse in Haverford, PA. Significance: Built in two parts, the original section of Plymouth Meeting House ... More
Upper Providence Friends Meetinghouse, 8207 Black Rock Road, Oaks, Mon...
Significance: Upper Providence Meeting House, built in 1828, reflects the early single-cell meeting house form, including the use of the rear carriage or mounting door that had long fallen out of use. The resur... More
Upper Providence Friends Meetinghouse, 8207 Black Rock Road, Oaks, Mon...
Significance: Upper Providence Meeting House, built in 1828, reflects the early single-cell meeting house form, including the use of the rear carriage or mounting door that had long fallen out of use. The resur... More
Race Street Friends Meeting House, Race Street west of Fifteenth Stree...
Significance: Although constructed almost thirty years after the ca. 1827 separation, the Race Street Friends Meeting House is a tangible reminder of the controversy caused by differing interpretations of Quake... More
Race Street Friends Meeting House, Race Street west of Fifteenth Stree...
Significance: Although constructed almost thirty years after the ca. 1827 separation, the Race Street Friends Meeting House is a tangible reminder of the controversy caused by differing interpretations of Quake... More
Darby Friends Meeting House, 1017 Main Street, Darby, Delaware County,...
Significance: Built in 1805, the Darby Meeting House was designed in the prototypical doubled form of the late eighteenth century. It appears unaltered from its original design and includes significant intact a... More
Arch Street Friends Meeting House, 330 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Phil...
Significance: The Philadelphia-area Yearly Meeting of Friends was established in 1681 and was housed in a number of earlier meeting houses prior to the construction of the current building. In 1804, the east wi... More
Radnor Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Sproul & Conestoga R...
Significance: Constructed largely in 1718, Radnor is one of the oldest standing meeting houses in the Delaware Valley. Its form captures patterns of American Friends Meeting House development that are extant in... More
Society of Friends Meetinghouse, Northern Boulevard, Flushing, Queens ...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-187 Survey number: HABS NY-521
The plot discovered, communicated by letter from a worthy American pat...
Evans 14408. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 107, Folder 26.
In the hands of his philanthropic friends / C.J. Taylor.
Print shows Uncle Sam walking between two bloated businessmen labeled, on the left, "Monopolies" and on the right, "Trusts"; each one is picking a pocket while Uncle Sam is blissfully unaware. Illus. from Puck... More
Groups & individual friends of Matson family in Jerusalem
Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Groups & individual friends of Matson family in Jerusalem
Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Group portrait of friends at social gathering, seated and standing wi...
Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - group portrait, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lillian and her friends using the General Electric water heater
Woman at dresser heating a cup of water. Photoprint copyrighted by General Electric Co. No. 6. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women; Electricity.
Uncle Sam and John Bull again fast friends - Yankee Troops in London
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hicksite Friends Meetinghouse, County Road E-29, Marietta, Marshall Co...
Survey number: HABS IA-30-13 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A man and a woman riding on the back of a horse, Kenntucky. Farm Secur...
Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Detroit, Michigan. A Venetian night party at the Detroit yacht club, w...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A black and white photo of a crowd of people, Kenntucky. Farm Security...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a crowded sports competition or music festival event, spectators, people, audience, concert, stadium, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A black and white photo of a group of people, Kenntucky. Farm Security...
Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Joan and Jean Grant and friends, J.E. Grant Plantation, near Rome, Mi...
Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. No print found. Forms part of: Lomax photographs depicting folk musicians in the Lomax Collection.
A black and white photo of a crowd of people, Kenntucky. Farm Security...
Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a man standing next to a car, Kenntucky. Fa...
Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A group of people standing around a horse, Kenntucky. Farm Security Ad...
Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a crowd of people, Kenntucky. Farm Security...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Detroit, Michigan. A Venetian night party at the Detroit yacht club, w...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Michigan, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Relatives and friends of the family of the deceased going home from a ...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Detroit, Michigan. A Venetian night party at the Detroit yacht club, w...
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A poster comes to life. "I've been waitin' for this moment," said Geor...
Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
You'll probably find new friends during this war, but you may not find...
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The workers' friends. Public domain reproduction.
Picryl description: Public domain photo of American art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...
Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More
Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...
Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More
Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...
Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More
Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...
Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More
Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...
Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More
First view of the battle of Patapsco Neck dedicated to those who lost ...
Print showing American soldiers in the foreground, Boulden's house, and the British troops, as well as General Robert Ross being shot, his horse rearing, and the retreat of the British, with Ross, back to the w... More
Uncle Sam and Miss Columbia showing their foreign friends how to have ...
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Richardson, C.
[John Canoe (with guitar) and friends, New Bight, Cat Island, Bahamas,...
Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "John ... More
Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...
Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More
Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...
Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More
Germantown Friends Meeting House, 47 West Coulter Street, Philadelphia...
Significance: Germantown is a fine example of a mid-nineteenth century urban meeting house. It was built between 1868 and 1869 by master builder Hibberd Yarnall, and designed by Addison Hutton, one of Philadelp... More
Society of Friends Meetinghouse, Schoosett Street (Routes 139 & 53), N...
Significance: The Friends Meeting House was the center of Quaker religious society which flourished for 200 years, until the early 1900's. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2 Surve... More
Hicksite Friends Meetinghouse, 1150 North A Street, Richmond, Wayne Co...
Significance: The Hicksite Friends, the largest and most influential religious sect in nineteenth-century Richmond, acquired a plot of land from Charles W. Starr in 1864. By the following year they had erected... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Chichester Friends Meeting House, 611 Meetinghouse Road, Boothwyn, Del...
Significance: Chichester Meeting House is a well-preserved and unusual example of eighteenth-century Quaker meeting-house architecture in the Delaware Valley. Erected between 1769 and 1771, the building follows... More
Chichester Friends Meeting House, 611 Meetinghouse Road, Boothwyn, Del...
Significance: Chichester Meeting House is a well-preserved and unusual example of eighteenth-century Quaker meeting-house architecture in the Delaware Valley. Erected between 1769 and 1771, the building follows... More
Chichester Friends Meeting House, 611 Meetinghouse Road, Boothwyn, Del...
Significance: Chichester Meeting House is a well-preserved and unusual example of eighteenth-century Quaker meeting-house architecture in the Delaware Valley. Erected between 1769 and 1771, the building follows... More
To the freemen and freeholders of the City and County of New York. Fri...
Imprint 2. @+@; Not in Eavns.; On verso: S; March 4, 1774; Samuel Avery. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemer... More
Sadsbury Friends Meeting House, Simmontown Road, .25 mile east of Rout...
Significance: Among the earliest extant meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, Sadsbury is a rare example of an early meeting house form. Sadsbury's square shaped plan and three-by-three bay elevations with cen... More
Friends Meetinghouse, 120 North Broad Street, Woodbury, Gloucester Cou...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-34 Survey number: HABS NJ-80 Building/structure dates: ca. 1715 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1783 Subsequent Work
Wilmington Friends Meetinghouse, Fourth & West Streets, Wilmington, Ne...
Significance: Early Wilmington's population as predominantly Quaker. On the highest piece of ground they built their meeting house and settled around it in an area of the city now known as Quaker Hill. The Qu... More
Wilmington Friends Meetinghouse, Fourth & West Streets, Wilmington, Ne...
Significance: Early Wilmington's population as predominantly Quaker. On the highest piece of ground they built their meeting house and settled around it in an area of the city now known as Quaker Hill. The Qu... More
Upper Evesham Friends Meeting School House, 14 Union Street (rear), Me...
Significance: The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) operated a school on this site since 1759. This structure was probably built sometime between 1840 and 1860 as a replacement of the 1759 school. Survey... More
Society of Friends Meetinghouse, 15 Rutherford Place, New York, New Yo...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-25 Survey number: HABS NY-4-1
Friends Meetinghouse, Great Road, Saylesville, Providence County, RI
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-17 Survey number: HABS RI-17 Building/structure dates: 1703 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1740 Subsequent Work