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Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer.
Title
[Group of unidentified children outside of storefront] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1923
Date
ca. 1923
Physical Description
1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 10 x 11 cm. (3.75 x 4.25 in.)
Description
Depicts a boy holding the handles to a wagon in which a baby sits. A third child sits, looking directly at the camera. In the background are two girls and a boy looking at the baby in the wagon, and a woman shielding her eyes from the sun. Numerous cans of Chipso, the first laundry soap designed for use in washing machines, are stacked in store window behind the group.
Notes
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. 164.
Subject
Children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Wilson 112 [P.8513.112]
Accession number
P.8513.112
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George Mark Wilson Photograph Collection
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