Details
Title [Employees of the Philadelphia Grain Elevator Company's Twentieth Street elevator] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1890
Date [ca. 1890]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen mounted on cardboard ; mount 18 x 23 cm (6.75 x 8.75 in.)
Description Depicts a group portrait of nine employees of the Philadelphia Grain Elevator Company at Twentieth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Philadelphia, Pa. posed before the grain storage facility. In the left, two white men employees stand in an open doorway underneath the sign, "The Phila. Grain Elevator Co’s. Twentieth St., Elevator." An African American man, holding his bowler hat in his hand, and another white man stand in front of the doorway. An African American man, holding his bowler hat in his hand, and two white men, stand in the center. In the right, an African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, a striped shirt, a waistcoat, torn pants, and shoes, stands with his hands at his side. A barefooted white boy, attired in a long-sleeved white shirt and pants with suspenders, looks at the viewer. Behind him is a horse-drawn cart with two horses resting under grain chutes near an open entranceway. The cloth chutes are labeled, "Philadelphia Seamless." The Philadelphia Grain Elevator Company was incorporated in 1878 and engaged in the operation of a rail terminal elevator for the exporting and importing of grain.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date based on the operation of the business and the attire of the sitters.
Gift of Chester County Historical Society, 1991.
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 Philadelphia Grain Elevator Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Portraits.
Boys -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- American -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Employees -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Grain elevators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Twentieth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- at Pennsylvania Avenue.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1880-1890.
Group portraits -- 1880-1890.
Portrait photographs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| group portrait photographs - occupations - Philadelphia Grain Elevator Co. [P.9325.1]
Accession number P.9325.1