Details
Creator Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer.
Contributor Pennsylvania Railroad.
Title [22nd Street, west side north of Market Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1913
Date September 30, 1913
Physical Description 1 negative : glass ;
Description View showing an African American man laborer and two horse-drawn carts in front of the Philadelphia Gas Works building. Shows the man, attired in a cap, a coat, pants, and shoes, standing in the street with his right hand on top of the cart. Trolley tracks line the street. Includes partial view of a railroad overpass.
Notes Inscribed in negative: 215011.
Inscribed in negative: 9 30 13.
Title from manuscript note on negative envelope: Penna. R.R. Co. 22nd St. W. side North of Market St. September 29, 1913. Pennsylvania Railroad No. 177. 214924.
Photograph commissioned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
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 Philadelphia Gas Works.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Public utility companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Street railroad tracks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Twenty-second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 000 block -- west side.
Genre Glass plate negatives -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Jennings [P.9480.215811]
Accession number P.9480.215811 (g)