Details
Creator Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer.
Title Philadelphia Divinity School 1931 [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1931
Date 1931
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 27 x 35 cm (10.5 x 13.5 in.)
Description Group portrait depicting the graduating students, including a woman and an African American man, posed outside of the school at 42nd and Spruce Streets. The fifteen students, attired in caps and gowns, sit and stand in three rows. A religious instructor, attired in a black robe and a necklace with a large cross, stands among them. The Philadelphia Divinity School, incorporated in 1863, was an outgrowth of the Diocesan training school started by Protestant Episcopal Bishop Alonzo Potter. An official Department of Women was established at the Divinity School around 1939.
Notes Title and date from note inscribed on negative: PDS 1931.
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 Protestant Episcopal Divinity School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American clergy -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clergy -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Theological seminaries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women clergy -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Group portraits -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photo-Illustrators-11x14 [P.8888.8]
Accession number P.8888.8