Details
Creator Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer.
Title [Fire truck in front of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1926
Date [ca. 1926]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 15 x 9 cm (5.75x 3.25 in.)
Description Scene in front of St. Patrick's Church showing a man in a suit climbing an extension ladder attached to a fire truck parked on Rittenhouse Street. Firemen attend the ladder from inside the truck. Spectators, including an African American man, gather on the street corners near a drugstore and residence.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the people.
Part of a series of five views of the scene.
Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982.
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 St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Drugstores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Spectators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Rittenhouse Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photo-Illustrators [P.8802.42]
Accession number P.8802.42