Showing posts with label church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label church. Show all posts

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Portrait of a Man Wearing a Top Hat Posing in Front of H. Burr's House in Washington DC (1857)

Portrait of a man posing in front of H. Burr's house in Washington, D.C., April 1857. An unidentified church is also visible to the left of it in the distance. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale.

Source: National Museum of American History.

Thursday, March 22, 2018

View Taken During the Laying of the Cornerstone Ceremony of Rollstone Church in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (1868)


View taken during the laying of the cornerstone ceremony of Rollstone Church in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, October 5, 1868. From the book Fitchburg Past and Present by William Andrew Emerson published in 1903.

Friday, March 11, 2016

View of African American Civilians in Line to Receive Rations in a Street in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (1865)


View of a street in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1865. The crowd of people down the street are said to be African Americans civilians in line to receive rations. By Andrew Lytle. From Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War.

Friday, January 29, 2016

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Daguerreotype View of the Unitarian Congregational Church of the Messiah and Other Buildings Along Broadway in New York City, New York (1839)


Daguerreotype view of the Unitarian Congregational Church of the Messiah and other buildings along Broadway in New York City, New York, c. 1839. Believed to be the earliest surviving photograph of New York City. By Samuel Morse and John Draper.

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Sunday, October 11, 2015

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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Daguerreotype View of the Unitarian Congregational Church of the Messiah Along Broadway in New York City (1839)


Daguerreotype view of the Unitarian Congregational Church of the Messiah along Broadway in New York City, c. 1839. Believed to be the earliest surviving photograph of New York City. By Samuel Morse and John Draper.

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Friday, December 5, 2014

Two Italian Soldiers Standing Guard at the Entrance of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Palestine (1917)


Two Italian troops standing guard at the entrance of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Palestine, c. 1917. By the American Colony. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

Sunday, October 5, 2014

View of the Fredericksburg Baptist Church in Fredericksburg, Virginia (1864)



View of the Fredericksburg Baptist Church with a wagon and a number of unidentified men in front of it in Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 20, 1864. By James Gardner. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Saturday, October 4, 2014

Monday, September 15, 2014

African Americans Attending Church Service in Charleston, South Carolina


African Americans attending a service in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, c. 1860. By Osborn and Durbec. Animated stereoview.

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Monday, February 10, 2014

Church of the Nativity

French and British soldiers standing guard in front of the Church of the Nativity, Jerusalem, c. 1918. Animated stereoview.

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