"What do you all want to do wif dat pixture tak'en contraption"
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark)
1879-1925
photographer
still image
Graphic
Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930
Portrait photographs -- 1920-1930
pau
Philadelphia]
PA. Philadelphia
[ca. 1923]
1923
monographic
eng
1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 10 x 12 cm (3.75 x 4.75 in.)
Depicts an older African American woman, with a stern expression, her arms crossed in front of her body, standing next to her brick home at Jessup and Irving Streets in Philadelphia. According to the photographer, the home is "a good example of a skilled mechanics home - the middle class of from 60 to 80 years ago," and that the woman was coaxed in to allowing the photograph after he described her house as "quaint" and she as "beautiful." Today this house is connected to the one behind it on Quince Street. Plaques on Quince Street house list builder of both buildings as Henry Vollum in 1813; the architect of additions and alterations made in 1924 was Wetherill P. Trout; those involved with connecting the two buildings in 1989 were Francis Henkels, architect, Diana Fertik, designer, and Philip Johnson, builder.
Title from descriptive manuscript note on verso.
Photographer's manuscript note on verso: "I don't 'low no one no how to make no fotygraf of me nor my house." "Madam" we said "we are interested in quaint old residences and beautiful women and desire to have the camra [sic] record both." The picture was a natural sequence of this little speech. The house is not far from 10[th] and Locust Sts. - Jessup and Warnock Sts. Now I wonder how many know where Jessup and Warnock Sts. bisect."A good example of a skilled mechanics home, or as this and other 'wider spread' bread earners are now designated "the middle class of from 60 to 80 years ago."
Forms part of: George Mark Wilson Photograph Collection.
African American women
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Dwellings
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Middle class
Housing
United States
19th century
Jessup Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
222
P.8513.188
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Wilson [P.8513.188]
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