Details
Creator Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer.
Title Orthodox [Russian] Church and a much sign be-splattered home of a magician next to it at 700 no 5" St [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1923
Date ca. 1923
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 12 x 9 cm. (4.75 x 3.25 in.)
Description Shows home and business of "Professor Samuel H. Lingerman, The Celebrated Ventriloquist" at 705 North Fifth Street. Dwelling is covered in signs and advertisements. St. Andrew Russian Orthodox Church topped with spherical spires is visible next door.
Notes Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso that incorrectly identifies church as "Orthodox Greek."
Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry,edited.
Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 166.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel and Susan Oyama's Philadelphia: Then and Now (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 92.
Subject Lingerman, Samuel H.
St. Andrew's Russian Orthodox Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Ventriloquism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Orthodox churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Magicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fifth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 705.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Wilson 182 [P.8513.182]
Accession number P.8513.182