Details
Title [United States Department of the Interior] Quartermasters Interior Depot, 21 and Oregon Ave., May 24, 1917 [sic] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1918
Date [May 24, 1918]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 24 x 29 cm (9.5 x 11.5 in.)
Description View of a crowd witnessing the military performing a flag folding ceremony at the Depot under construction in Philadelphia during World War I. In the center, the soldiers hold a large American flag. More soldiers stand in formation in the right. Surrounding the soldiers are depot workers, some African American men, who watch the ceremony. In the foreground, men observe the scene while seated on a trailer and sitting and standing on stacks of cinder blocks. In the left, a man sits on a bicycle beside a building. Scaffolding is visible in the background.
Notes Title from item.
Manuscript date written on recto should probably be 1918 not 1917.
See related: P.P.9260.428.
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 -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Flags -- American.
Military parades and ceremonies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Soldiers -- American.
Spectators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
World War, 1914-1918.
African American laborers.
Geographic subject Oregon Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- corner of 21st Street.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - unidentified - Construction [P.9260.427]
Accession number P.9260.427