Details
Contributor Jackson-Cross Company.
Title 729 N. 10th. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1940
Date ca. 1940
Physical Description 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 5 x 7 in.
Description Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting an empty lot at 729 North Tenth Street. Two large billboards are posted on the side of the adjacent property at 727 North Tenth Street, advertising The Bulletin and Tastykake. Advertisements and posters are also plastered to the front of the same property. The water tank atop one of the towers of the Penn Paper & Stock Co. is visible in the background behind two dwellings on Brown Street.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Subject Billboards -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Industrial facilities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Real estate business -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vacant lots -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Tenth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 729.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1940-1950.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Jackson-Cross [P.9784.2]
Accession number P.9784.2