Details
Creator Harrison, Edward, photographer.
Title [Railroad overpass to Reading Terminal over Poplar Street near Ninth Street, Philadelphia, March 18, 1913] [graphic]
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1913
Date [March 18, 1913]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 25 x 33 cm (10 x 12.75 in.)
Description Scene showing a commercial section of Poplar Street surveyed for a Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad street grade elevation project. Trolley tracks run down the cobblestone street lined with stores including grocers and a butcher. Customers, including an African American man, peruse one of the grocery store's display of canned peaches. In front of "Greisinger Co. Meats," 907 Poplar Street, an African American man stands in the street near a cart. Other storefronts with awnings are seen in the distance behind the overpass. Reading Railroad terminal was located at 12th and Market streets.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Manuscript note on verso: (907 Poplar).
Inscribed in negative: 12708; 3-18-13; 0.690
Stamp on verso: Philadelphia & Reading Ry. Co., Huntingdon St., Apr. 11, 1914, Philadelphia, Ass't Engineers Office.
Illegible manuscript note on verso.
Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner, 1984.
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 men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Butcher shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Grocery stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pedestrians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Street railroad tracks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Poplar Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 900 block.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company [P.9057.177]
Accession number P.9057.177