Details
Creator Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer.
Title Bartram gardens, Phila[delphia] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1923
Date [ca. 1923]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 12 x 10 cm (4.75 x 3.75 in.)
Description Depicts three well-dressed children, including an African American girl, posed on and around a large stone trough by the wall of a building in Bartram's Garden. In the left, a white boy, attired in a white collared shirt, a striped tie, light-colored shorts, black socks, and shoes, stands facing the viewer with his left hand on the trough. The African American girl, attired in a short-sleeved dress with white trim at the neck, cuffs, and waist, stands behind the trough with her left hand resting on its rim. In the right , a white boy, attired in a short-sleeved, white collared shirt, shorts, and socks, sits on the trough with his legs hanging inside it. Bartram's Garden, the first botanic garden in the country cultivated by botanist and farmer John Bartram in the mid-18th century, was restored by the John Bartram Association in the 1920s after many years of neglect.
Notes Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso.
Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979.
Description revised 2022.
Access point revised 2022.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African American girls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Watering troughs.
Geographic subject Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fifty-third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 1650.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Group portraits -- 1920-1930.
Portrait photographs -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Wilson [P.8513.115]
Accession number P.8513.115