Details
Creator Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer.
Title Pennsylvania Rail Road Co. connecting bridge at Girard Ave. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1912
Date August 29, 1912
Physical Description 1 negative : glass ; negative 22 x 27 cm (8.25 x 10.5 in.)
Description View of a construction crew working under a viaduct of the bridge to enlarge West River Drive. In the foreground, an African American man crew member lowers a hose into the ditch in which the crew of predominately African American men work. Most of the men sift through a large pile of dirt and rubble near a horse-drawn cart.
Notes Title from note on negative sleeve: Penn R.R. Co. connecting bridge at Girard Avenue.
Inscribed on negative: 7314.
Published in Harry Silcox's Philadelphia: the life of photographer William Nicholson Jennings, 1860-1946 (Philadelphia: Brighton Press, Inc., 1993), p. 85.
Purchase 1994.
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 construction workers.
African American men.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad construction & maintenance -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad construction workers.
African American laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Girard Avenue Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Glass plate negatives -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Jennings [P.9480.7314]
Accession number P.9480.7314 (g)