Details
Contributor United States. Public Works Administration
Title [Recess at Philadelphia Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Streets] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1937
Date [April 5, 1937]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 8 x 10 in.
Description Depicts the young students, including African American children, from the Willis and Elizabeth Martin Orthopedic School at recess in the school's courtyard. The children, many in wheelchairs, with braces, or on crutches, are watched by several aides. Opened in 1936, the Public Works Administration funded school, named after the Philadelphia judge and his philanthropist wife, provided the students with medical care and a curriculum of humanities, arts, crafts, and drama.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inscribed on negative: No. 12217; 4-5-37.
Manuscript note on verso: Phila Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Sts.
Duplicate of P.8578.14.
Forms part of Philadelphia Public Schools Photograph Collection.
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Kushlan, 1980.
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 Willis & Elizabeth Martin Orthopedic School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American students -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boys -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Girls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
People with disabilities -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Play (Recreation) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
School recesses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Wheelchairs.
Geographic subject Twenty-second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- at Brown Street.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - unidentified - Education [P.8578.13]
Accession number P.8578.13