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[Recess at Philadelphia Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Streets]
[graphic].
[Philadelphia],
[April 5, 1937]
1 photograph :
gelatin silver ;
sheet 8 x 10 in.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inscribed on negative: No. 12217; 4-5-37.
Manuscript note on verso: Phila. Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Sts.
Depicts the young students, including African American children, from the Willis and Elizabeth Martin Orthopedic School at recess in the school's courtyard. The children, many in wheelchairs, with braces, or on crutches, are watched by several aides. Opened in 1936, the Public Works Administration funded school, named after the Philadelphia judge and his philanthropist wife, provided the students with medical care and a curriculum of humanities, arts, crafts, and drama.
Duplicate of P.8578.13.
Forms part of Philadelphia Public Schools Photograph Collection.
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Kushlan, 1980.
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.
Willis & Elizabeth Martin Orthopedic School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American children
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
African American students
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
Boys
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
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Girls
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
lctgm
People with disabilities
Education
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
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Play (Recreation)
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
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School recesses
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
lctgm
Schools
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
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Wheelchairs.
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Twenty-second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
at Brown Street.
local
Gelatin silver prints
1930-1940.
gmgpc
Women.
82663
SP3
African American History
SP5
Education.
United States.
Public Works Administration
3663
Imprint
PA. Philadelphia.
1937.
Library Company of Philadelphia
PRINT
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photos - unidentified - Education [P.8578.14]
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photos - unidentified - Education [P.8578.14]
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P.8578.14
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photos - unidentified - Education [P.8578.14]
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1937.
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