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Salvation Army Home, 5415 Lansdowne Avenue, Phila. [graphic] / William H. Rau, Phila.
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Creator
Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920.
Title
Salvation Army Home, 5415 Lansdowne Avenue, Phila. [graphic] / William H. Rau, Phila.
Publisher
[Philadelphia]: [William H. Rau]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1910
Date
[ca. 1910]
Physical Description
1 photograph : gelatin silver on card mount; sheet 9 x 15 cm (3.5 x 5.5 in.) (postcard format)
Description
Postcard promoting the Salvation Army Rescue Children's Home and Hospital. The home, established in 1893, provided shelter, training and medical care to destitute mothers and children. Depicts a group portrait of a row of eleven small children, including an African American girl, attired in identical white jumpers. The children are lined up from shortest to tallest child.
Notes
Inscribed in negative: 26770.
Contains manuscript note on verso addressed to Mrs. A. G. Crandall, Montpelier, Vermont.
Purchase 2002.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Real photo. Divided back. Post marked April 16, 1910.
Subject
Salvation Army.
African American girls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Orphanages -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women's shelters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Lansdowne Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 5415.
Genre
Gelatin silver prints -- 1900-1910.
Group portraits -- 1900-1910.
Photographic postcards -- 1900-1910.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP postcards - Hospitals, asylums and homes [P.2002.52]
Accession number
P.2002.52
In Collections
African American History Photographs
Brightbill Postcard Collection
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
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