Color postcard: Church Street showing St. Philip's and Old French Huguenot Churches, Charleston, S.C.
Book 2, Page 256 ·1900–1920
Transcription
A tinted picture postcard pasted to the album page. Caption printed in red across the upper portion of the image:
Church Street (S.), showing St. Philip’s and Old French Huguenot Churches,
Charleston, S.C.
The image is a hand-tinted photograph or lithograph of a Charleston street scene. The tall white spire of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church rises in the middle distance at the center of the view. The Gothic Revival walls of the French Huguenot Church appear at the right edge. A black horse-drawn carriage stands in the cobbled street; two women in long pale dresses stand at the left, and a man and woman stand at the right beside a hitching post. Saplings line both sides of the street.
A publisher’s serial number is printed at the lower left of the image:
206,640 J.V.
AI Notes
A tinted lithographic picture postcard, undivided-back or early-divided-back era (ca. 1900–1915). The front shows a hand-tinted street scene of Church Street, Charleston, S.C., looking toward St. Philip’s Church. A horse-drawn carriage stands in the middle of the cobbled street; pedestrians are visible at left and right. The postcard publisher’s plate number ‘206,640 J.V.’ appears in the lower left. Only the front of the card is visible on this album page; no marginalia.
Only the picture side of the postcard is mounted; if there is correspondence on the reverse it is hidden against the album page.
Both churches in view are ancestral to the album’s family. St. Philip’s Episcopal Church (current building 1835–38, replacing the 1723 original lost to fire) is where the compiler Amy FitzSimons Walker was christened — see her note to her aunt on the following page (257). The Gothic Revival French Huguenot Church (current building 1844–45) is the spiritual home of the family’s three Huguenot lines — the Cordes, Porcher, and Gaillards — who fled France after the 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and gave Christopher Gaillard McEwan (p264) his middle name.