Details
Creator Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer.
Title Bread St. bel. Arch St. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Date [ca. 1923]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 10 x 12 cm (3.75 x 4.75 in.)
Description Exterior view of depicting the entrance of a Jewish family’s brick house north of Arch Street in Philadelphia. In the right, a white man, attired in a cap, a collared sweater, pants, and shoes, holds a broom and sweeps in front of the door. In the left, four white women peer out of two first-floor shuttered windows and look at the viewer. Underneath the windows five young African American children sit, attired in winter hats and coats.
Notes Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso.
Photographer's manuscript note on verso: (without wisp of smoke). Mortor [sic] was mixed in those days in a huge mortor [sic] box. The lime was slacked by shoveling it into the box, permitting water to flow into the box and keeping the mass in constant motion with a hoe, thereby preventing the lime from being burned or killed, when properly slacked, it was run off into a basin of sand, where it was mixed with the sand and made ready for use.
Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979.
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 boys -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Jewish families -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Sweeping & dusting -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women.
Geographic subject Bread Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- above Arch Street.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Group portraits -- 1920-1930.
Portrait photographs -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Wilson [P.8513.97]
Accession number P.8513.97