Details
Creator Photo Illustrators (Firm)
Title The port, Philadelphia. Loading ships from cars. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1935
Date [ca. 1935]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 8 x 10 in.
Description View of an active railway pier at Port Richmond on the Delaware River showing several dock workers, including African Americans, unloading pipe sections from railway cars onto a docked ship. In the right, the workers use pulleys to move the pipes from the cars, one of which is marked “N.Y.C.” In the left, workers on the ship look down at the scene. Port Richmond was owned by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company starting in the mid-1850s.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Date inferred from photographic medium and content.
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 men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American stevedores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cargo ships -- United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad cars -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stevedores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Port Richmond (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photo-Illustrators [P.8836.27]
Accession number P.8836.27