Details
Creator Rau Studios, photographer.
Contributor Albert M. Greenfield & Co.
Title 1908 South Street. [graphic] / Rau Studios.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1927
Date [ca. 1927]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 8 x 10 in.
Description Real estate photograph commissioned by Albert M. Greenfield & Company depicting Silverman's Pawn Shop and Old Reliable Clothing House for sale. Clothing, jewelry, and musical instruments are prominently displayed in the store windows. Image includes adjacent buildings at 1906 and 1910 South Street of an African American "Hair Shop of Mme. V.V. Maginley," and an abandoned Army & Navy store. The hair shop displays several beauty products and Black dolls. Posters for the "101 Ranch Wild West Street Parade" hang in the windows of the abandoned store. Also visible in the right is a man pedestrian (out of focus and ghost-like). The real estate firm was established in 1905. The Greenfield Bulletin contained photographic illustrations, property listings, and articles about the firm's important brokerage and development deals.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Date based on content and active dates of the photographer.
Photographer's imprint inscribed on negative.
Negative inscribed: 606 D2.
Stamped on verso: Greenfield Bulletin, Issue June. Page 4. No. 4.
Purchase 2000.
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.
Biographical / historical note Rau Studios, established in Philadelphia in 1887 by William Herman Rau, was a respected commercial firm which operated until around the early 1930s.
Subject African American business enterprises -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Beauty shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pawnshops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Real estate business -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject South Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1908-1910.
Genre Advertisements -- 1920-1930.
Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Greenfield Collection [P.9789.13]
Accession number P.9789.13