Details
Title [Construction on Market Street between 17th and 18th Streets, Philadelphia, July 8, 1904] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1904
Date [July 8, 1904]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 19 x 24 cm (7.25 x 9.25 in.)
Description View of a fenced exposed area of the street with unearthed pipes protected by a series of wood girders. African American construction workers guide a steel bin over the girders and haul dirt from the site with a horse-drawn cart. Several spectators, including a well- dressed African American man, line the fence. In the distance, a white boy with a bucket rests on a crane near a workman's shed. Businesses line the street including "Leiber's Red Front Dining Room, 1788 Market Street." Painted advertisements for Coca Cola and a liquor dealer adorn the building visible on the street corner.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Negative inscribed: 554.
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 Advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Commercial establishments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Spectators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American laborers -- United States.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1700 block.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - unidentified - Construction [P.9260.362]
Accession number P.9260.362