Details
Contributor United States. Public Works Administration
Title [Music class at Philadelphia Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Streets] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
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 playing simple percussion instruments during a music lesson of the "Shoemakers Dance." In the left at the front of the classroom, a boy student acts as conductor, overseen by the teacher and woman piano accompanist. The students sit on the floor with their instruments. Along the wall are several students in wheelchairs. Opened in 1936, the Public Works Administration funded school, named after the Philadelphia judge and health care reformer 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. 12219; 4-5-37.
Manuscript note on verso: Phila. Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Sts.
Duplicate of P.8578.16.
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Kushlan, 1980.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Forms part of Philadelphia Public Schools Photograph Collection.
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.
Children playing instruments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Girls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Music education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
People with disabilities -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Wheelchairs.
Women.
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.8578.15]
Accession number P.8578.15