Details
Title Quartermasters Department of the Interior, 21st & Oregon Ave. Phila May 24, 1918 [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 conducting a flag ceremony at the Depot under construction in Philadelphia during World War I. The majority of spectators, predominately depot workers, some African American men, surround the soldiers as they fold a large American flag in the right. In the foreground, men watch seated on a trailer and stacks of cinder blocks. In the left, a man stands with a bicycle in front of a building. In the background, men work within scaffolding.
Notes Title and date from item.
See related: P.P.9260.427.
Purchased 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.) -- 2100 block.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - unidentified - Construction [P.9260.428]
Accession number P.9260.428