Details
Creator Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer.
Title [Women posed at Glendinning Rock Gardens, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia] [graphic] / The Photo-Illustrators, 1206 Walnut St., Phila., Pa. Commercial Photographers.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1957
Date [ca. 1957]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 8 x 10 in.
Description Scene showing well-dressed women, including an African American woman, posed in the Glendinning Rock Gardens in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Shows nine women, attired in dresses, sitting and standing on the rocks around the pond and on the incline leading up to the stone wall. The garden, built in 1936 at the bequest of Fairmount Park Commission board member Colonel Robert Glendinning and his wife Elizabeth, is one of the most unusual in the country containing an atypical variety of species of shrubs, herbs, and trees.
Notes Photographer's imprint stamped on verso.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the people.
Manuscript note on verso: Glend[i]nning Rock Gardens, Fairmount Park.
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 women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1950-1960.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photo-Illustrators [P.8809.1]
Accession number P.8809.1