Details
Title [Looking east on the 2100 block of Market Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1904
Date [September 17, 1904]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 19 x 24 cm (7.5 x 9.5 in.)
Description View showing street construction by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company of the Market Street Subway in a large, deep pit on the 2100 block of Market Street. The construction workers include white and African American men. Shows men spectators looking down at the pit. Men fill horse-drawn carts with dirt, and theater advertisements for the "Famous Ithaca Band" at Willow Grove Park adorn construction equipment.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inscribed in negative: 9-17-04.
Inscribed in negative: 579.
Gift of Steven Dorfman, 2013.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Subject Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company.
African American construction workers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction workers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Spectators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Subways -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2100 block.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - unidentified - Construction [P.2013.6.9]
Accession number P.2013.6.9