Details
Creator Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer.
Title [Boys digging near Schuylkill River, Philadelphia] [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 Seven boys pose in the midst of digging a ditch near the Schuylkill River. Across the river, smokestacks and industrial buildings are visible.
Notes Location: About 4 blocks bel. Gray's Ferry Bridge - Schuylkill River.
Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Do you remember the story of the bloodthirsty buncaneers [sic] -- how they dug holes in the earth and buried their treasure, how your heart thumped with excitement as their doings were told or read. Perhaps you did not have an opportunity to dig holes for the purpose of burying or finding treasure. These youngsters have, and are in a way, exercising that privlidge [sic]. Hence what is lost in a cozy playroom, is found in the freedom of the outdoors. But these free lances are not burying or seeking gold. Truth to tell it was a bitter cold day and there was a high wind, so these pirates were engaged in digging fire holes in the side of the ditch, for the verry [sic] pratical [sic] purpose of arranging a set of ovens, firing them and so keeping warm. This exposure was made about 4 blocks bel. Gray's Ferry Bridge - Schuylkill River.
Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Boys -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rivers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Digging -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Gray's Ferry (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Wilson 99 [P.8513.99]
Accession number P.8513.99