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923 Olive St. (house torn down) [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A59662
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Contributor
Jackson-Cross Company.
Title
923 Olive St. (house torn down) [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1940
Date
[ca. 1940]
Physical Description
1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 5 x 7 in.
Description
Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting African American children leaning against a building adjacent to a vacant lot scattered with debris. Nine boys and girls stand against the wall. The girl in the left holds a broom. The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Notes
Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company, Lincoln-Liberty Building, Philadelphia.
Title from manuscript note on recto.
Date inferred from content.
Purchase 2000.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Subject
African American boys -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American girls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Real estate business -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vacant lots -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Olive Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 923.
Genre
Gelatin silver prints -- 1940-1950.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Jackson-Cross [P.9784.7]
Accession number
P.9784.7
In Collections
Jackson-Cross Company Realtors Property Photograph Collection
African American History Photographs
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