Argenterie

1870 · 346959 — New York 1870. Large mounted albumen photograph with the above text below the image. 16-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches image size; 21-1/2 x 16-1/2 inches overall. Minor toning. Large mounted albumen photograph with the above text below the image. 16-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches image size; 21-1/2 x 16-1/2 inches overall. The broadside advertises the times of Sunday services as well as Sunday school and prayer meetings. Constructed from white granite salvaged from the demolition Congregationalist Church of the Puritans on the northwest corner of Union Square the 53rd Street Baptist Church would open in 1870 suggesting the approx. date of the present image. However by the mid-1880s the building would be sold to the Mount Olivest Baptist Church the noted African American church. In 1925 the congregation moved to its present location on Lenox Avenue at 120th Street following the migration of African-Americans from midtown to Harlem.<br /> <br /> The photographer of this image William W. Silver best remembered for his historic mammoth plate panorama of New York 1874 taken from the top of the Post Office building. unknown