Details
Creator Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer.
Title Logan Square, Park Boulevard, Philadelphia [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1923
Date [ca. 1923]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 12 x 10 cm (4.75 x 4 in.)
Description Scene depicting two African American women walking past the Swann Memorial Fountain at Logan Square in Philadelphia before the installation of Alexander Stirling Calder's sculpted naiad figures in 1924. In the foreground, two women walk side-by-side on the sidewalk in front of the active fountain. Walking on the inside, the woman is attired in a black dress, stockings, and shoes, and the woman walking on the outside closer to the viewer is attired in a patterned dress, black stockings, and shoes.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Date inferred from content.
Duplicate print of P.8513.9.
Gift of Mrs. Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979.
Description revised 2022.
Access points 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 women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fountains -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Swann Memorial Fountain (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Walking -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Logan Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Wilson [P.8513.109]
Accession number P.8513.109