[Twelfth Street Friends Meetinghouse, 20 South 12th Street, Philadelphia]

Photographer’s manuscript note on verso: “Old meetinghouse 12 St ab. Chestnut. W. side. Erected 1812. What a charming old place. Peace and quietude seem to reign supreme within its walls, while the jangle, the clatter, the sound of many feet, of many voices and of countless motors and cars, raise up all around it. See the contrast of yesterday and today in building. The old Quaker meetinghouse is engulfed in a well, the sides of which are the huge skyscraping monstrotomes [sic], called department stores, loft and office buildings. (more data). Explain old English trades guild system. They built for generations in those days. At the present time we build for a generation and feel well satisfied if our buildings stand even that long.”

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