Details
Creator Parker & Mullikin, photographer.
Contributor Jackson-Cross Company.
Title [Security Bank & Trust Company, Franklin Street and Girard Avenue, Philadelphia.] [graphic] / Parker & Mullikin, photographers, P.O. Box 275, Upper Darby, Pa.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1948]
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 the bank and trust company, established in 1870, at Franklin Street and Girard Avenue in Philadelphia. People, including African American men, walk on the sidewalk and sit in the adjacent plumbing supply store's doorway at 712 Girard Avenue. An “air-conditioned” movie theater showing the film "State of the Union" with Spencer Tracy stands across Franklin Street. Several cars are parked on the street. The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a successful and prominent local real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Notes Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from content.
Purchase 2000.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Subject Security Bank & Trust Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Banks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pedestrians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Plumbing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Real estate business -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Girard Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- corner of Franklin street.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1940-1950.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Jackson-Cross [P.9784.32]
Accession number P.9784.32