Details
Creator Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer.
Title Where have all the cigar store Indians gone. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1923
Date ca. 1923
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 12 x 6 cm. (4.75 x 2 in.)
Description View of female wooden cigar store Indian statue standing on pedestal on sidewalk in front of building. Pedestal reads "Chas. Seider, Manufacturer." Signs posted on building read: "Radio News in The Bulletin" and "Local and Long Distance. Keystone Telephone Pay Station." Statue wears feathered headdress, skirt, dangling earrings, and lifts something in her left hand.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Here is one at 4" and race [sic]. The really fine examples of the wood carvers [sic] art, as applied to these images, has disappeared from the pavements of the corner cigar stores. The Indian introduced tobacco, hence the symbol of the sign. (Find out name of man who made a business of such work in Phila. Trace his line with the carving of figure heads on old sailing vessels, the figures on Morse, Spanish and Italian boats. Mention totem poles.
Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Cigar store Indians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Race Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 400 block.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Wilson 174 [P.8513.174]
Accession number P.8513.174