Details
Contributor Jackson-Cross Company.
Title [714-716 N. 10th Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1945
Date [ca. 1945]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 5 x 7 in.
Description Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting several African American laborers working in a coal, ice, and scrap lot for sale by Arthur Boswell in the Spring Garden neighborhood. In the center, an African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, a collared, zipped up jacket, an apron tied around his waist, pants, and shoes, leans on the open wooden door with signs that read, “Sale Arthur Boswell” and “Ice never fails.” The other wooden door has “coal” written in paint. In the scrapyard, several men moving material are visible. Planks of wood lie in piles on the ground. The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Date inferred from content.
Number 16.
Purchase 2000.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Subject African American men.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Real estate business -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Scrapyards -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Tenth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 714-716.
Spring Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1940-1950.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Jackson-Cross [P.9784.8]
Accession number P.9784.8