Title

Old Swede's Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 1901. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Old Swede's Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1901. Vintage postcard showing the exterior of the red brick church with a steeple. The exterior of the church is covered in ivy. The cemetery is in the foreground. Gloria Dei (Old Swedes' Church) was built by Swedish settlers between 1697 and 1700. Its congregation was originally Lutheran, but has been Episcopalian since 1845.
Curt Teich Postcard Archives

Date

2007

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Curt Teich Postcard Archives

Reference

HRM19D82_328

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

40,2Mb (2,9Mb) / 15,8in x 9,9in / 4727 x 2973 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature exterior building buildings religious architecture plant country religion Sweden Swedish church color colour death Christian Christianity spire location century Philadelphia Pennsylvania cemetery gravestone graveyard concept outside steeple ivy churchyard 17th century Protestant Protestantism United States of America United States Anglican Church of England Lutheran episcopal 18th century 1900s 20th century Eighteenth Century American America USA seventeenth century TGN photograph postcard Curt Teich Postcard Archives Unknown Old Swedes Church photograph postcard