Details
Creator Hand, Alfred, photographer.
Title Junk shop at 13th & Pine [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1920
Date [ca. 1920]
Physical Description 1 negative : film ; negative 11 x 8 cm (4 x 3.25 in.)
Description View from the southwest depicting the exterior of the antique shop of James Eham, an African American, at 1237 Pine Street. Shop is heavily adorned with antiques and curiosities, including cigar store Native Americans, ship models, a rooster weather vane, and a ship's helm. Posters, including a playbill for a production of "Our Colored Boys Over There" at the African American playhouse, the Royal Theater (opened in 1920), cover an adjacent building. Other neighboring buildings are visible. Eham, born enslaved in Virginia, settled in Philadelphia in 1876 and soon after became an antiques dealer. By 1927, he owned two antique stores in Philadelphia and one in New York. Eham was also a Baptist minister, as well as worked as a hotel porter later in his life.
Notes Inscribed on negative: 3700.
Title from negative sleeve.
Date inferred from content.
Modern reference print available.
Original negative housed in freezer.
Purchase 1988.
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.
Research file about James Eham (1842-1930) available at repository.
Subject Eham, James, 1842-1930.
Royal Theater (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American business enterprises -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Antique stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Antiques -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cigar store Indians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Weather vanes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Pine Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1237.
Genre Film negatives -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| 4x5 Film Negatives-Hand [P.9259.141]
Accession number P.9259.141