Details
Creator Broadbent Company, photographer.
Title [Girls High School class of 1900] [graphic] / [Broadbent Co.] 1415 Chestnut St. Phila.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1900
Date [1900]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen mounted on cardboard ; image 29 x 40 cm (11 x 15.5 in.) ; mount 41 x 51 cm (16 x 20 in.) irregular.
Description Class portrait, including African American students, posed before the school at 17th and Spring Garden streets. The students sit on the front steps of the school and stand along the sides and at the top. Some hold and display personal mementoes. Established in 1848, the high school, located at Spring Garden from 1876 to 1958, was the first municipally funded secondary school for girls in the United States. The school relocated to 1400 West Olney Street in 1958.
Notes Right corner missing.
Photographer's imprint ink stamped on verso.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Purchase 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 High School for Girls (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American girls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American students -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Girls -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Students -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Spring Garden Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1600 block
Genre Albumen prints -- 1900-1910.
Group portraits -- 1900-1910.
Portrait photographs -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *group portrait photographs - education [P.9359]
Accession number P.9359