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[Celebration at building construction site] [graphic].
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Title
[Celebration at building construction site] [graphic].
Publisher
[United States]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1910
Date
[ca. 1910]
Physical Description
1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 in.)
Description
Group portrait of white men celebrants, attired in light-colored hats and suits, at a building construction site on a major city street. An older white man, attired in an oversized hat decorated with flowers, holds a baton and sits before the group of men who stand on planks balanced across exposed iron girders in the sidewalk, on a large pulley, and on cement blocks before the unfinished building. In the left, four African American men musicians with guitars and a fiddle stand on the planks of wood and look at the viewer.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from attire of the sitters.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject
African American men -- Portraits.
African American musicians -- Portraits.
Celebrations -- United States.
Construction -- United States.
Genre
Gelatin silver prints -- 1900-1910.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - unidentified - construction [P.9260.426]
Accession number
P.9260.426
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African American History Photographs
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