Details
Creator Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer.
Title [McKinley's Court, west from 516 North Second Street, Philadelphia]. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Date ca. 1923
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 10 x 12 cm. (4 x 4.75 in.)
Description View of facades of brick row houses. Tubs, rags hang on house walls. Chair sits next to drain pipe. Lamppost appears in foreground. McKinley's Court is located west of Second Street, east of American Street, between Noble Street to the south and Buttonwood Street to the north.
Notes Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso.
Photographer's manuscript note on verso: McKinley's Court - 2" St ab ______ [Noble] St. This is undoubtly [sic] the most picturesque court in Phila. Note old Flemish bond brickwork. The old community hydrant is there. The old community entrance - to say nothing of the new community lamp post. Cheese bag hanging on window frame of 2" floor window.
Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
For other views of McKinley's Court, see P.8513.117, P.8513.121, and P.8513.225.
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. 165.
Subject Row houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
McKinley's Court (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Wilson 176 [P.8513.176]
Accession number P.8513.176