Details
Creator Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer.
Title [Philadelphia Divinity School 1933] [graphic] / The Photo-Illustrators, 1210 Locust St., Phila., Pa. Commercial Photographers.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1933
Date 1933
Physical Description 1 photograph : platinum print with hinge ; sheet 8 x 10 in.
Description Group portrait depicting the graduating students, including two African American men, posed outside of the school at 42nd and Spruce Streets. The nineteen students, attired in caps and gowns, sit and stand in three rows. The Philadelphia Divinity School, incorporated in 1863, was an outgrowth of the Diocesan training school started by Protestant Episcopal Bishop Alonzo Potter.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inscribed on negative: PDS 1933.
Photographer's imprint stamped on verso.
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.
Geographic subject Forty-second Street -- Corner of Spruce Street.
Genre Group portraits -- 1930-1940.
Platinum prints -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photo-Illustrators-11x14 [P.8888.8a]
Accession number P.8888.8a