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Title [Aftermath of the Broad Street Station fire, Philadelphia, June 1923] [graphic]
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1923
Date [June 1923]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 20 x 25 cm (7.75 x 9.75 in.)
Description Scene showing a large crowd of men and women commuters on a makeshift walkway stretching to the back of the interior of the train shed. Depicts the crowd, including African Americans, milling about on the landing overseen by a railroad conductor. Two laborers with a plank, one an African American, wait at the front of the crowd. Labor crews on either side of the commuters repair the destroyed platforms and tracks upon which burnt out train cars rest. Under a sign pointing left "To Filbert Street," a conductor and two men consult near a telephone box. The Broad Street Station fire started on a Monday and burned for three days. The fire was still burning when 2000 laborers began repairing the station to reopen that Friday.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from content.
Purchase 1981.
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 Broad Street Station (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Disasters.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Commuters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Crowds -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fires -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Filbert Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1500 block
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photographs- unidentified - transportation [P.8683.19]
Accession number P.8683.19