About this piece
Vintage linen postcard captioned "Trinity Church, New York City", card number 26, showing the red Gothic Revival church and spire against tall office buildings, with the churchyard and its gravestones in the foreground. "Photo by Keystone" at lower left. Published as a Tichnor Quality Views card by Tichnor Bros., Inc., Boston, Mass., with a New York office at 1472 Broadway; back number 62292. Standard size, about 3.5 x 5.5 inches, vertical format. Good unused condition with light toning and a few faint spots on the back.
The back carries a printed history: dedicated in 1697, enlarged in 1737, destroyed by fire in 1776, with a second church dedicated in the presence of George Washington, and Alexander Hamilton and Robert Fulton among those buried there. Unposted with a "Place One Cent Stamp Here" box.
A classic Lower Manhattan church view for New York City, Episcopal church and linen-era collectors.
The back carries a printed history: dedicated in 1697, enlarged in 1737, destroyed by fire in 1776, with a second church dedicated in the presence of George Washington, and Alexander Hamilton and Robert Fulton among those buried there. Unposted with a "Place One Cent Stamp Here" box.
A classic Lower Manhattan church view for New York City, Episcopal church and linen-era collectors.
