Details
Creator Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer.
Title [Jewish man standing and Irish woman seated on a staircase, between Water and Front Streets, north of Market Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1923
Date ca. 1923
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 12 x 9 cm. (4.75 x 3.5 in.)
Description Depicts a Jewish man standing and an Irish woman seated on a staircase between Water and Front Streets, north of Market Street, Philadelphia. A sign reading " 'The Headless Wonder' Made without 'Heads'. No useless Expense. All Quality. Flexo Giants Cigars. 10 for 30 cents" is pasted to the brick wall next to the people.
Notes Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Not in Florence, Genoa or Naples. An outside stairway between Water and Front Sts., No., of Market St., Phila. The characters are not Italians. The man is a Jew and the young woman is Irish.
Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Duplicate: P.8513.11: same neg.
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. 162.
Subject Jewish men.
Irish American women.
Geographic subject Water Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Portrait photographs -- 1920-1930.
Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Wilson 107 [P.8513.107]
Accession number P.8513.107