Details
Contributor Jackson-Cross Company.
Title 1022 Chestnut Street (rear). [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1945
Date [ca. 1945]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver mounted on canvas ; mount 22 x 28 cm (8.5 x 11 in.)
Description Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting Clifton Street and the rear of a three-story brick building. Shows the building’s fire escape and security bars protecting the doors and windows. In the foreground is a street sign reading, “Clifton St.” In the left is an adjoining parking lot with cars lined up. Two African American men, one seated and one standing with a cigarette in his mouth, man the lot. The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Notes Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company.
Title from typewritten note on recto.
Date inferred from content.
Purchase 2000.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Subject African American men.
Buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Parking lots -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Real estate business -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American parking lot attendants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1022.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1940-1950.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Jackson-Cross [P.9784.29]
Accession number P.9784.29