Details
Creator Pancoast, Charles R., 1858-, photographer.
Title [Vegetable cultivation at demonstration center at Little Wakefield, Germantown] [graphic] / C.R. Pancoast, Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1918
Date [ca. 1918]
Physical Description 1 photographic : gelatin silver ; sheet 16 x 21 cm (6 x 8.25 in.)
Description Group of young women, including an African American woman, from the National League for Women's Service with plow, wheelbarrow, watering can, and other tools working in a vegetable garden. Shows eighteen women spread out over the garden tending to different plants. In the center, the African American woman stands holding a pitcher. A voluntary organization in support of the homefront during World War I, the League used the Little Wakefield estate as a demonstration center. They held classes in home economics and canning and preserving, grew fruits and vegetables, and cultivated bees. Little Wakefield was built by Thomas Rodman Fisher in 1829 on property adjacent to his father's estate, Wakefield, located at 1601 Lindley Avenue. La Salle University purchased the land in 1989.
Notes Title from published postcard.
Date inferred from content.
Photographer's blind stamp on recto.
Purchase 1989.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
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 Fisher, Thomas Rodman, 1803-1861 -- Homes and haunts.
National League for Woman's Service.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Estates (Law) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Victory gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Little Wakefield (Pa. : Estate)
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Pancoast [P.9276.41]
Accession number P.9276.41