Details
Creator Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer.
Title [Syrian American woman named Selina holding knitting, looking at camera] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1923
Date ca. 1923
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 12 x 10 cm. (4.75 x 3.75 in.)
Description Portrait of woman sitting on a step beneath a wood awning at 10th and Ellsworth Streets, wearing a fringed shawl wrapped around her head, a flowered skirt, and holding a knitting project in her lap.
Notes Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Selina looks up. The story of Selina is a sad one. Married but two years, her husband was killed in a factory. Left with a child and a great sorrow, she was compelled to once more earn her own living. This she does by making lace and knitting jackets, etc. Fast workers are these women. (Relate story of lace making. The pattern is in the head of the maker. She does it that way because her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother done it that way. Sometimes she is inspired to create a new design.
Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Subject Syrian Americans -- Women -- Portraits.
Knitting -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Widows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Ellsworth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1000 block.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Wilson 87 [P.8513.87]
Accession number P.8513.87