Details
Creator Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer.
Title Antique store, Pine Street e. of 13th St. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1923
Date [ca. 1923]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 9 x 12 cm (4.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Exterior view depicting the two-and-a-half story antique shop of James Eham, an African American, at 1237 Pine Street. Shop is heavily adorned with antiques and curiosities, including cigar store Native Americans, ship models, and weather vanes. Candlesticks and a menorah are displayed in the first floor windows. Eham, born enslaved in Virginia, settled in Philadelphia in 1876 and soon after became an antiques dealer. By 1927, he owned two antique stores in Philadelphia and one in New York. Eham was also a Baptist minister, as well as worked as a hotel porter later in his life.
Notes Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso.
Photographer's manuscript note on verso: An interesting old negro is the proprietor of this curious shop.
Gift of Mrs. Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Research file about James Eham (1842-1930) available at repository.
Subject Eham, James, 1842-1930.
African American business enterprises -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Antique stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Antiques -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cigar store Indians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Weather vanes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Pine Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1237.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Wilson [P.8513.175]
Accession number P.8513.175