Elizabethtown College - Church of the Brethren Photographs

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The Church of the Brethren Photograph Collection consists of more than 500 mostly black and white photographs of meeting houses and churches in eastern Pennsylvania, historic sites, gravestones, portraits and nursing homes associated with the Church. The photographs date from the 1890's to the present. A subset of the collection includes images from 200 glass-plate negatives dating from 1890 to 1915. These photographs were taken by J.G. Francis, a leader in the founding of Elizabethtown College and a minister of the Church of the Brethren in eastern Pennsylvania.
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Amwell Church
Amwell Church
Churches, Fences, Automobiles
Amwell Church. Located one mile east of Sergeantville, N.J. Erected in 1856. Ira W. Gibbel Collection. Explanation from the Brethren Encyclopedia page 27-28. 4.86 X 3.43 in.
Annville Church
Annville Church
Churches, Fences, People, Automobiles
Exterior of the Annville Church of the Brethren after a cyclone on Saturday, August 21, 1915. 10.89 X 6.75 in.
Buffalo Church
Buffalo Church
Churches, Automobiles
Buffalo Church. Located half a mile west of Mifflinburg, Union County, Pa. Buffalo congregation organized in 1826. Built in 1864, remodeled in 1949-50, and enlarged in 1972. Ira W. Gibbel Collection. Explanation from the Brethren Encyclopedia page 228. 4.82 X 3.33 in.
Calvary Church
Calvary Church
Churches, Automobiles, People
Calvary Church. Building erected in 1920 as an offset of the Bethany congregation. Church organized on July 4, 1923. Ira W. Gibbel Collection. Explanation from the Brethren Encyclopedia page 1015. 4.69 X 3.43 in.
Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren
Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren
Churches, Steeples, Automobiles
Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren (current building). One of the divisions of the Chiques congregation, Elizabethtown was organized May 2, 1902. On April 22, 1956, the congregation dedicated its second building, located at the corner of S. Mount Joy and Cedar Streets. Explanation from the Brethren Encyclopedia page 436. 11.86 X 8.01 in.
Hanover Church of the Brethren
Hanover Church of the Brethren
Churches, Automobiles
Hanover Church. A brick church was built on Fulton St. in 1899, and the congregation organized on March 9, 1902. Located on Fulton St. and Terrace Avenue, Hanover, Pa. Picture taken in 1969. Explanation from the Brethren Encyclopedia page 582. 10.74 X 8.50 in.
Jennersville Church
Jennersville Church
Churches, Automobiles
Jennersville Church. Located west of West Grove in Chester County, Pa. Congregation organized on April 6, 1929 from part of Mechanic Grove. Present parsonage built in 1939 and a new structure eventually built and dedicated in 1951. Ira W. Gibbel Collection. Explanation from the Brethren Encyclopedia page 670. 4.55 X 2.69 in.
Lititz Church
Lititz Church
Churches, Automobiles
Lititz Church. First church built in 1926. The congregation outgrew the church and built at a new location in 1961-62. Picture taken on January 19, 1946. Ira W. Gibbel Collection. Explanation from the Brethren Encyclopedia page 748-49. 3.47 X 2.42 in.
Manheim Church
Manheim Church
Churches, Automobiles
Manheim Church. Part of White Oak congregation, built in 1949. See History of the Church of the Brethren, Eastern Pennsylvania, 1915-1965, page 138. Ira W. Gibbel Collection. 4.67 X 2.83 in.
Mount Olivet Church
Mount Olivet Church
Churches, Automobiles
Mount Olivet Church. Located three miles west of Newport, Perry County, Pa. Mount Olivet was organized as a mission congregation in 1915 under the District Mission Board of South Pennsylvania, but it was not until 1957 that it became an independent congregation. Ira W. Gibbel Collection. Explanation from the Brethren Encyclopedia page 886. 4.59 X 2.72 in.
New Paris Church
New Paris Church
Churches, Automobiles
New Paris Church. Dunnings Creek congregation. Congregation organized on January 15, 1871. First meetinghouse built in 1905. Ira W. Gibbel Collection. 2.36 X 3.53 in.
Old Pricetown Meetinghouse
Old Pricetown Meetinghouse
Churches, Automobiles
Old Pricetown Meetinghouse. Maiden Creek Church of the Brethren. Building erected in 1777, making it the oldest unrestored Brethren church structure. Ira W. Gibbel Collection. Explanation from the Brethren Encyclopedia page 869. 4.89 X 2.66 in.
Pricetown Meetinghouse
Pricetown Meetinghouse
Churches, Automobiles
Pricetown Meetinghouse. Ira W. Gibbel Collection. 4.89 X 2.66 in.
Somerset Church
Somerset Church
Churches, Automobiles
Somerset Church. Became an independent congregation from Middle Creek in 1919. Church dedicated in 1922. Ira W. Gibbel Collection. Explanation from the Brethren Encyclopedia page 1202. 4.45 X 2.59 in.
Spring Creek Meetinghouse
Spring Creek Meetinghouse
Churches, Fences, Gates, Automobiles, Postcards
Postcard of Spring Creek Meetinghouse with gated entrance. Located in Hershey, PA. First built in 1848. Explanation from the Brethren Encyclopedia page 599. 10.00 X 6.29 in.
Uniontown Church
Uniontown Church
Churches, Automobiles
Uniontown Church. In 1931 the Uniontown congregation was organized separately from the Fair-View (Georges Creek) congregation. There was a meetinghouse in Uniontown in the 1880s, which was replaced by a new building in 1902-03. Explanation from the Brethren Encyclopedia p. 1289. Ira W. Gibbel Collection. 4.45 X 2.68 in.