Details
Creator Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer.
Title Burholme Park outing. "Ice Cream." [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1930]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 13 x 21 cm (5 x 8 in.)
Description Depicts a smiling African American woman serving ice cream from a barrel to African American children with disabilities in Burholme Park, Philadelphia. The children, most with crutches, surround the barrel eating their ice cream. In the foreground, the young girl sits holding a dish of ice cream while her crutches lie on the grass in front of her. Three boys and one girl stand and hold dishes of ice cream. People stand and sit on benches in the background. Burholme, originally the country seat of railroad magnate Joseph Waln Ryerss and an Underground Railroad station during the Civil War, became a public park at the death bequest of Ryerss' son, Robert, in 1868.
Notes Title from duplicate print.
Date inferred from attire of the people.
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 African American children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African Americans with disabilities.
Children with disabilities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Eating & drinking -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ice cream & ices.
Women.
Geographic subject Burholme Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Group portraits -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photo-Illustrators [P.8817.15a]
Accession number P.8817.15a