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Title: [Boys digging near Schuylkill River, Philadelphia]
Description: Seven boys pose in the midst of digging a ditch near the Schuylkill River. Across the river, smokestacks and industrial buildings are visible., Location: About 4 blocks bel. Gray's Ferry Bridge - Schuylkill River., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Do you remember the story of the bloodthirsty buncaneers [sic] -- how they dug holes in the earth and buried their treasure, how your heart thumped with excitement as their doings were told or read. Perhaps you did not have an opportunity to dig holes for the purpose of burying or finding treasure. These youngsters have, and are in a way, exercising that privlidge [sic]. Hence what is lost in a cozy playroom, is found in the freedom of the outdoors. But these free lances are not burying or seeking gold. Truth to tell it was a bitter cold day and there was a high wind, so these pirates were engaged in digging fire holes in the side of the ditch, for the verry [sic] pratical [sic] purpose of arranging a set of ovens, firing them and so keeping warm. This exposure was made about 4 blocks bel. Gray's Ferry Bridge - Schuylkill River., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 99 [P.8513.99], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson99.htm

Title: Frame houses and an odd skyline at Thompson St. and Susquehanna Ave. -- Kensington, Phila
Description: Depicts wood row houses., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry,edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 139 [P.8513.139], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson139.htm

Title: Van Pelt St. and Locust St
Description: View showing the front facade of the residence of Miss Lily C. Harris built circa 1895 at 2125 Locust Street near Rittenhouse Square. Dwelling is adorned with an ironwork balcony., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso: An all satisfying colonial doorway graceful, dignified and having all the reminiscent charm of the period it reflects., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.180], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson180.htm

Title: [Unidentified residences in Manayunk, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts young boy standing at edge of dirt road looking at camera with rear of group of dwellings visible in background. Bicycles sit propped against wooden fences. In background, men and another boy stand beyond dwellings' porches., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 22 [P.8513.22], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson22.htm

Title: [Manayunk, Philadelphia, in winter]
Description: Winter scene depicting buildings next to the Schuylkill River in the foreground. The hills of Manayunk and the houses built on them rise in the background., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Many people in Manayunk live on a bluff. The Schuylkill river is in the foreground., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 192 [P.8513.192], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson192.htm

Title: [Mediterranean-style residence with terra cotta roof, unidentified location, Philadelphia]
Description: Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Moresque. Italian - S[p]anish., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.197], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson197.htm

Title: [Group of unidentified children outside of storefront]
Description: Depicts a boy holding the handles to a wagon in which a baby sits. A third child sits, looking directly at the camera. In the background are two girls and a boy looking at the baby in the wagon, and a woman shielding her eyes from the sun. Numerous cans of Chipso, the first laundry soap designed for use in washing machines, are stacked in store window behind the group., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 164.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 112 [P.8513.112], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson112.htm

Title: [Group of children, Southwark, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts group of boys and girls in coats and hats posed in front of a wall., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A group from one of the melting pot sections of Phila., Southwark. Note: the two little boys on the left, the questioning seriousness of one and the amused assurance of the other. (Tell about sledding down an ash pile without snow, ice or cold weather and about tin-can-decorated trees and electric wires.), Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 101 [P.3513.101], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson101.htm

Title: [Residence and garden at 42nd Street and Woodland Avenue, West Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts the front facade of a West Philadelphia stone house with an overgrown garden., Title from photographer's descriptive manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Would you think this old house with its weed grown garden is at 42 and Woodland Ave? Well it is. (1923), Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.123], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson123.htm

Title: [House and court on Fourth Street above Arch Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Nighttime view of three-story brick house and adjacent courtyard., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The atmosphere of Soho or Whitechapel, London. As one of our friends said "A good place for a murder." It is a night picture of a house and court on 4" ab. Arch St. (Note reflection of St. lamp on walls up the court. The party residing in the house has been living there 60 years. Rent of houses in court - [$]9.00 per mo. (Tell about Pud's Poolroom across the street)., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.221], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson221.htm

Title: [Street in Manayunk]
Description: View looking downhill along a street in Manayunk bordered by snow-covered houses, telephone poles, and wires., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Where from this point, the term "down the street" is literally true. Manyunk [sic] - Phila., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.21: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 69.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 217 [P.8513.217], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson217.htm

Title: A quiet and restful looking old home on Paul St. Frankford Phila[delphia]
Description: View showing the side and front facade of a three-story dwelling, covered in vines, beside a fenced yard. Includes a partial view of a "low racing car" parked in front of the house., Title from photographer's descriptive manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: However, the snorting exhausts of a low racing car is it drew up and stopped in front of this door seemed to us the heighth of the incongrous [sic]., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.152], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson152.htm

Title: [Street in Manayunk]
Description: View looking downhill along a street in Manayunk bordered by snow-covered houses, telephone poles, and wires., Photographer's manuscript note on verso of duplicate: Where from this point, the term "down the street" is literally true. Manyunk [sic] - Phila., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.217: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 69.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 21 [P.8513.21], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson217.htm

Title: Rear of houses on Paul and ___ Sts. Frankford, Phila[delphia]
Description: Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: This neighborhood is full of quaint scenes ready for the artist's brush., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 205 [P.8513.205], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson205.htm

Title: A little court off Front St. no. of Arch St
Description: Depicts two brick homes, with two children posed in front of each building., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: These houses in the picture, likewise all those in court are considerably over 125 years. At the upper end of this court there is an alley. In this alley there is a three story, Flemish bond front, house. In this house Benj Franklin resided. So he passed the buildings herewith photographed, in going to - or coming from his home, since there never was any other way of gaining entrance to his home than by passing up this alley. Houses rent from $6 to $9 per mo. (Tell about woman and the Dardenells story. Judicate the pride of residentials (Americans) of this section in the houses of the neighborhood. Proud of the long periods they have resided there., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 118 [P.8513.118], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson118.htm

Title: House 18[th] and Spruce Sts
Description: Exterior view showing the residence of Philadelphia cotton merchant George McFadden and former residence of Mrs. Lavinia Thomson (widow of PRR Chief Engineer J. Edgar Thomson) at the northeast corner of Eighteenth and Spruce streets. A peddler with his pushcart stands in front of the house., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Graceful, homelike and cheerful. Reminiscent of a southern style. (make another in the late spring)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.229], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson229.htm

Title: [Row houses, Cherry Street between 2nd and 3rd Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of row houses along narrow street. People walk along sidewalk in distance., Manuscript note on verso: Cherry St. bet. 2nd and 3rd Sts., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.14)], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson14.htm

Title: [Row houses along north side of Cherry Street, between 2nd and 3rd Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The most interesting street from an artistic and colonial viewpoint in Phila., no. side Cherry St bet. 2" and 3 Sts. Mostly Americans live in this square. Note second house from left. An excellent type of colonial home, in good state of preservation. Flemish bond and ribbon front. Formerly a private school for young ladies. Large rooms. High ceilings., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 138 [P.8513.138], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson138.htm

Title: [Court on Carpenter Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View of rear of differently shaped dwellings and industrial buildings built close together., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A modernistic composition. It is a court on Carpenter St. near ____ St., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 144 [P.8513.144], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson144.htm

Title: [Exterior view of stone house in rural setting]
Description: Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Old colonial., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 222 [P.8513.222], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson222.htm

Title: [DeLancey Street, north side, between 19th & 20th Streets, Philadelphia.]
Description: View showing the residence of Richard Cadwalter, built around 1918, at 2019 Delancey Street, near Rittenhouse Square., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Manuscript note on verso: N. side DeLancey bet. 19[th] & 20[th]. Later Renessance [sic] Louis 14 time., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.169], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson169.htm

Title: Court off Ellsworth St. No. side E of 10 St
Description: Depicts fifteen children in the courtyard between their row homes. Two boys in the background have climbed a lampost to pose for the picture. Two other boys are posed with their fists clenched in a boxer's stance. One older girl holds a younger child and faces away from the camera. Still other children pose proudly. Wash hangs in the courtyard., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Court off Ellsworth St, No side E of 10 St. This court - or rather the buildings in it - are comparatively new, consequently it is comparatively sanatary [sic]. All the children in this picture live in the 5 houses comprising this court. It is from this and the Southwark districts that the glovemen of the squared circle principally eminate [sic]. Note two prospective champions in foreground., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 85 [P.8513.85], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson85.htm

Title: [Unidentified Philadelphia residence]
Description: View showing a bungalow-style residence in a rural area, possibly in North Philadelphia. Stalks of corn are visible in the foreground., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.234], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson234.htm

Title: Old House 58[th] and Chestnut Sts
Description: View showing a West Philadelphia residence., Title from photographer's descriptive manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: This is a rural house of the revolutionary period and the present occupant of it is very proud of his place of abode. Not 200 ft away is a public school of the most modern style. For revolutionary., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate of P.8513.23., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.218], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson218.htm

Title: [Frame rowhouses, East Thompson and East Columbia Streets, Fishtown, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts a block of dilapidated row houses. Nearest house advertises oysters and clams. Trolly tracks run in street; trees grow along sidewalk., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: An entire row of old frame houses in Fishtown, Phila. Thompson and _______ Sts. These houses were recently torn down (1923) to make way for a playground., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 230 [P.8513.230], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson230.htm

Title: One of the houses in which Edgar Allen [sic] Poe resided while in Phila
Description: Exterior view looking from below Brandywine Street showing the residence at 530 North 7th Street attached to the dwelling tenanted by Edgar Allan Poe from 1842 to 1844. Two ladies peer out of third floor windows who "did not know why this picture was being made but they got in it anyhow." Also shows a partial view of Poe's former residence adorned with a poster advertising traveling burlesque shows at the Bijou., Title from photographer's descriptive manuscript note on verso., Descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso: "It is said that 'The Raven' and 'Gold Bug' were written in this house. It is at 7th and Brandywine Sts. Across the street at the (1923) present time is a sign on an old building reading 'Improved Order' of Free Lelts - whatever that is.", Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.233], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson233.htm

Title: [Syrian American family in front of their residence at 10th and Ellsworth Streets, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts two women and two boys standing in and around a home's doorway. One woman, Selina, holds her knitting; the other woman, Jenette, holds a chicken and two eggs. Selina's son, George, stands close to Jenette, while another unnamed boy poses outside the doorway., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 10th and Ellsworth Sts. Syrian group: Jenette, Selina, and the always with us strange small boy. note: Perhaps the hen (Jenette's holding) has just laid the egg. We were not informed on this point., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 163.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 100 [P.8513.100], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson100.htm

Title: Syrian girl knitting. 10th and Ellsworth Sts
Description: Depicts Syrian-American woman, Selina, sitting on her front step knitting, wearing fringed shawl wrapped around her head and flowered skirt., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.12: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 108 [P.8513.108], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson108.htm

Title: [Syrian American woman named Selina holding knitting, looking at camera]
Description: Portrait of woman sitting on a step beneath a wood awning at 10th and Ellsworth Streets, wearing a fringed shawl wrapped around her head, a flowered skirt, and holding a knitting project in her lap., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Selina looks up. The story of Selina is a sad one. Married but two years, her husband was killed in a factory. Left with a child and a great sorrow, she was compelled to once more earn her own living. This she does by making lace and knitting jackets, etc. Fast workers are these women. (Relate story of lace making. The pattern is in the head of the maker. She does it that way because her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother done it that way. Sometimes she is inspired to create a new design., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 87 [P.8513.87], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson87.htm

Title: Drinking fountain, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia
Description: Two boys pose at drinking fountain in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. One looks directly at the camera, while the other leans over to take a drink from the fountain., Title and location from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 102 [P.8513.102], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson102.htm

Title: [Young men in front of shadowed brick wall, unidentified location]
Description: Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 119a [P.8513.119a], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson119a.htm

Title: Rittenhouse Sq
Description: View of people sitting and standing around pool of water in Rittenhouse Square. People walk and another rides a bicycle in background. Holy Trinity Church visible beyond trees in background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 93 [P.8513.93], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson93.htm

Title: [Jewish man standing and Irish woman seated on a staircase, between Water and Front Streets, north of Market Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts a Jewish man standing and an Irish woman seated on a staircase between Water and Front Streets, north of Market Street, Philadelphia. A sign reading " 'The Headless Wonder' Made without 'Heads'. No useless Expense. All Quality. Flexo Giants Cigars. 10 for 30 cents" is pasted to the brick wall next to the people., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Not in Florence, Genoa or Naples. An outside stairway between Water and Front Sts., No., of Market St., Phila. The characters are not Italians. The man is a Jew and the young woman is Irish., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.11: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 162.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 107 [P.8513.107], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson107.htm

Title: [Russian Jewish children standing in front of a building at 412 South 21st Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts four Russian Jewish children, two boys and two girls, standing outside a front door and window. One woman can be seen inside the window., Photographer's manuscript note on verso : 21st St. bet[ween] Pine and Lombard Sts. W.S. [west side] Russian Jewish children. Note: little boy leaning against door jamb a really beautiful child and a verry [sic] friendly youngster. His name is Louis. John has an appel [sic] and wants to laugh. The tall girl is passive while her little sister does not want to be 'tooken'. The style of brick window seen here is fast disappearing. Its [sic] quaint panes of glass and the peculiar shutters in which it was literally wraped [sic] after closnig [sic] hours is but seldom found anymore. These shutters (on either side of window) are in 8 sections - 4 on each side and each 4 are fastened together by hinges. When the store is open, as in the case of this picture, the shutters are folded back and swing into a recess in the brick work of the wall., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 98 [P.8513.98], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson98.htm

Title: [Unidentified woman standing in arched doorway]
Description: Woman in long dark dress with scarf draped over her head stands under arched entrance to house at top of steps. Woman poses with head tilted looking at camera with right hand on hip, and left arm raised with elbow resting on arch hand on head., Woman depicted in this photograph also appears in Wilson photographs P.8513.6, P.8513.116a, and P.8513.116b., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.6: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 89 [P.8513.89], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson89.htm

Title: Night -- Market St. looking east from City Hall
Description: Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Taken from corridor balcony outlook, inside main entrance. Note: The lamps appearing in upper centre of picture are but reflections of a lamp in the corridor, shining on the window pane through which this picture was taken. Roadway illumination on No. side caused by W. bound traffic. No illumination on So. side because headlights are turned away from camera (E bound traffic)., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry,edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 199 [P.8513.199], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson199.htm

Title: [McKinley's Court, west from 516 North Second Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts a short courtyard bordered on three sides by houses. Washtubs hang on house facades, benches line house walls, wires cross the street between houses, and a lamppost sits next to a spicket on the sidewalk. McKinley's Court is located west of Second Street, east of American Street, between Noble Street to the south and Buttonwood Street to the north., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Another view of McKinley's Court. In this little court of six houses the following nationalities are represented: Jewish, Slavish, Hungarian, Polish and Italian. Is it any wonder Israel Zengwell's titel [sic] "The Melting Pot" found favor because of its truth, yet incongruity., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., For other views of McKinley's Court, see P.8513.117, P.8513.121, and P.8513.176., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 225 [P.8513.225], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson225.htm

Title: [McKinley's Court, west from 516 North Second Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View of facades of brick row houses. Tubs, rags hang on house walls. Chair sits next to drain pipe. Lamppost appears in foreground. McKinley's Court is located west of Second Street, east of American Street, between Noble Street to the south and Buttonwood Street to the north., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: McKinley's Court - 2" St ab ______ [Noble] St. This is undoubtly [sic] the most picturesque court in Phila. Note old Flemish bond brickwork. The old community hydrant is there. The old community entrance - to say nothing of the new community lamp post. Cheese bag hanging on window frame of 2" floor window., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., For other views of McKinley's Court, see P.8513.117, P.8513.121, and P.8513.225., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 165.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 176 [P.8513.176], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson176.htm

Title: [Entrance to McKinley's Court -- west from 516 North Second Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View of alley opening onto McKinley's Court, located west of Second Street, east of American Street, between Noble Street to the south and Buttonwood Street to the north. Houses frame edges of photograph., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso of P.8513.117., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Dutch., For other views of McKinley's Court, see P.8513.176 and P.8513.225., Similar view to P.8513.117., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 121 [P.8513.121], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson121.htm

Title: [Entrance to McKinley's Court -- west from 516 North Second Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View of alley opening onto McKinley's Court with boy standing and leaning on one of the houses that frame the photograph. McKinley's Court is located west of Second Street, east of American Street, between Noble Street to the south and Buttonwood Street to the north., Title from manuscript on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Entrance to McKinley's Court - west side of 2" St. ab ______ [Noble] St. The outline from this point has a distinctly Norman tinge. ["Norman tinge" is crossed out]., Similar view to P.8513.121., For other views of McKinley's Court, see P.8513.176 and P.8513.225., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 117 [P.8513.117], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson117.htm

Title: Lantern Lane
Description: Depicts small court between row houses. Each house has a lantern hanging on the wall next to front door. Lanterns also rest atop brick gateposts at court entrance. Taller buildings visible in background., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Ludlow St bet 18" and 19" Sts. An acquaintance of ours suggests that an apparently good way to make money is to buy a row of houses for $10,000 with a $9500 mortgague [sic] and $500 cash. Then paint the shutters alternately green and red, the doors pink and yellow, after which sell the properties at $10,000 each. Dutch., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 195 [P.8513.195], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson195.htm

Title: [Unidentified woman sitting on windowsill]
Description: Depicts woman in dress sitting in windowsill under arched windowframe with legs crossed, hand resting on knee, looking out the window at camera on ground below., Woman depicted in this photograph also appears in Wilson photographs P.8513.6, P.8513.89, and P.8513.116a., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 116b [P.8513.116b], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson116b.htm

Title: [Swann Memorial Fountain, Logan Circle, Philadelphia]
Description: View of the fountain in winter. Covered in ice, the three statues in the fountain spurt water in background. Architect Wilson Eyre, Jr. and sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder collaborated to create the fountain monument built at the bequest of Maria Elizabeth Swann, in memory of her late husband, Wilson Cary Swann, M.D. The three sculpted figures represent the three rivers around Philadelphia: the Indian symbolizes the Delaware River, the young woman depicts the Wissahickon, and the mature woman, the Schuylkill River., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Fountain. Park Boulevard. Winter. Ice pack about 12 ft high. It has been from 15 to 18 ft high. This fountain is run on a circulating system. The same water being used over and over. A series of 3 electric motors in an underground room near the fountain do the pumping. Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in background. Outline of City Hall to the right. Note: Work out spot in sky., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 78 [P.8513.78], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson78.htm

Title: [Unidentified woman standing by pail under window]
Description: Depicts woman in long, dark dress, dark stockings, and dark, shiny shoes with scarf draped over her head standing next to building wall, beneath a window. Wooden pail sits on ground next to her. Left hand rests on her hip as she looks at camera., Woman depicted in this photograph also appears in Wilson photographs P.8513.6, P.8513.89, and P.8513.116b., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 116a [P.8513.116a], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson116a.htm

Title: [Swann Memorial Fountain in Logan Circle, Philadelphia]
Description: View of the Swann Memorial Fountain at Logan Circle in Philadelphia before the installation of Alexander Stirling Calder's sculpted naiad figures in 1924., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 134 [P.8513.134], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson134.htm

Title: [Unidentified woman standing in front of French doors]
Description: Depicts woman standing outside house in front of French doors wearing a long dark dress, necklace, and low-heeled shoes. Her right hand rests on door handle and right foot rests on step into house., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.7: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 105 [P.8513.105], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson105.htm

Title: [Schuylkill River and houses atop hill in Manyaunk, Philadelphia]
Description: View from opposite bank of Schuylkill River of hill in Manayunk. Houses appear on top of hill and at bottom of hill, near river. Ground and river are snow- and ice-covered., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Schuylkill River and cliff dwellings - Manyunk - Phila., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 124 [P.8513.124], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson124.htm

Title: [Unidentified woman standing at gateway]
Description: Depicts woman dressed in long fur coat, white gloves, purse, hat, sheer black stockings, and low-heeled shoes standing near brick gatepost and open gate door. Ironwork connects the two gateposts above the woman's head and lantern hangs from ironwork's center., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.5: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 94 [P.8513.94], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson94.htm

Title: [Twelfth Street Friends Meetinghouse, 20 South 12th Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View of facade of Quaker meetinghouse from east side of Twelfth Street. People stand on corner. Automobiles are parked in front. Building was built 1812 with reassembled parts from the 1755 Greater Meeting House and was in continuous use until 1972 when it was dismantled and re-erected at the George School in Newtown, PA., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Old meetinghouse, 12 St ab. Chestnut, W. side. Erected 1812. What a charming old place. Peace and quietude seem to reign supreme within its walls, while the jangle, the clatter, the sound of many feet, of many voices and of countless motors and cars, raise up all around it. See the contrast of yesterday and today in building. The old Quaker meeting house is engulfed in a well, the sides of which are the huge sky scraping monstrotomes [sic], called department stores, loft and office buildings. (more data). Explain old English trades guild system. They built for generations in those days. At the present time we build for a generation and feel well satisfied if our buildings stand even that long., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel and Susan Oyama's Philadelphia: Then and Now (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 96.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 172 [P.8513.172], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson172.htm

Title: [First Unitarian Church, 2121-2125 Chestnut Street, at northwest corner Van Pelt Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts part of facade and side of church which was built 1885-1886 and designed by Furness, Evans & Co. Automobile parked in street., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 227a [P.8513.227a], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson227a.htm

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