Details
Title [Construction crew near railroad tracks, July 8, 1904] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Date [July 8, 1904]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 19 x 24 cm (7.25 x 9.25 in.)
Description Scene depicting a predominately African American construction crew working with picks and shovels in a pit deeply dug out of a stone embankment near railroad tracks. Within the pit lined with wood planks, a well-dressed white man, standing near the hook end of a crane hanging above, oversees the work crew. At street level, near a pile of rubble, a horse-drawn flatbed truck loaded with logs and two white workers stand idle. In the foreground, a "P.R.R." (Pennsylvania Railroad) air brake steel car stands motionless on the track.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Purchase 1989.
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 African American construction workers.
Carts & wagons -- United States.
Construction -- United States.
Construction workers -- United States.
Railroad tracks -- United States.
African American laborers -- United States.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photos - unidentified - Construction [P.9260.424]
Accession number P.9260.424