Search results

Title: Moyamensing prison at sunset
Description: Depicts prison facade, sidewalk, and part of street in front of prison located at 10th and Reed Streets. Architect Thomas Ustick Walter designed the building, which was constructed 1832-1835 and demolished 1968. It is also known as Philadelphia County Prison., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The name conjurs [sic] up a vocal department of a conservatory, however we never heard Moya-men-sing nor do we know why a big jail in N.Y. state is called Sing-sing, for we'll venture to say there is more weeping and gnashing of teeth in these institutions than there are indulgances [sic] in any sort of vocal calastenics [sic]. (brilliant sky, work in some light clouds), Similar view to P.8513.183., 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 238 [P.8513.238], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson238.htm

Title: Holy Trinity Church at sunset (winter)
Description: Depicts silhouette of church and nearby trees against winter sky. Designed by architect John Notman, the church was built from 1856 to 1859., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Duplicate: P.8513.29: same neg., 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 75 [P.8513.75], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson75.htm

Title: [Church of the New Jerusalem, 2129 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View of exterior staircase leading into west wall of the Church of the New Jerusalem. Includes view of three-arched walkway extending from main building. William Schlatter, grandfather of architect T.P. Chandler, was one of the founders of this church, built in 1881., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Not a monestary [sic] in France, or a church in rural England, just a peep at one corner of the New Jerusalem Church. 22nd and Chestnut Sts. Italian Gothic., 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 191 [P.8513.191], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson191.htm

Title: [Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, 21st and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of church spire from another rooftop. Architect Isaac Pursell designed the building, which was built circa 1889 and is also known as Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, and Reformed Protestant Episcopal Church., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Lutheran Church spire. Van Pelt and Chestnut Sts. Taken from roof on 22 St. no of Walnut. (Try another of this spire - from street)., 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 168 [P.8513.168], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson168.htm

Title: [Boxwood tree]
Description: Depicts large tree, with branches reaching the ground., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: One of the largest boxwood trees we ever saw. It is on an estate west of 69 and Market Sts., is at least 18 ft high and is approximately 30 ft wide at the base. (Tell about colored caretaker and our arrival through the rear entrance.), 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 65a [P.8513.65a], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson65a.htm

Title: [Cedar and oak trees on a private estate along the upper Delaware River]
Description: Depicts rows of cedar trees, a taller oak tree behind them, and part of a building's porch., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 7 little cedar trees with an old oak forming the background. Note the inviting little entrance into the sylvan enclosure. Mayhap if one were a child, one could see fairies and sylphs disporting themselves in the moonlight within this little haven. Private estate along the upper Delaware., 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 51 [P.8513.51], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson51.htm

Title: Scene on the Schuylkill from E bank near Spruce St
Description: View of industrial riverfront along Schuylkill River. Crane appears in foreground; South Street bridge and boat named "Friendship" with four sail masts appear in background., Title from photographer's manuscript on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Note: foreground, packet-crane for unloading coal from boats. 4 mast schooner in distance for sale. Name of schooner "Frienship". South St. bridge in background. (pen on word sale (sail) and on name of boat; put clouds in., 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 203 [P.8513.203], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson203.htm

Title: Frankford Creek at Frankford Ave., looking east
Description: Depicts bend in creek with industrial buildings lining banks and bridge crossing creek in the distance., 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 129 [P.8213.129], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson129.htm

Title: [Smokestacks of an oil tank below Gray's Ferry Bridge, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts industrial area's smokestacks silhouetted against a cloudy sky., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Below Gray's Ferry Bridge. W. side. Chimneys [of] an oil tank and a winter sky., 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 52 [P.8513.52], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson52.htm

Title: Scene from s. side w. end South St Bridge, Phila
Description: View of industrial landscape along Schuylkill River south of South Street Bridge against winter sky., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Elect., Chester tie line standards (5000 volts), Coal crane, Grey's [sic] [Gray's] Ferry Bridge, rain soaked flats and winter sky., 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 80 [P.8513.80], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson80.htm

Title: [Probably Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, later Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Church at 28th and Snyder Sts., Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts the rear of a church with cupolas and spires, probably the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, later Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Church at 2101 S 28th Street (28th and Snyder Sts.). Church reflects into a large puddle in foreground of picture. Holy Virgin parish was formed by mainly Carpatho-Russian members of the community in 1913. In 1973 "rib type" cupolas replaced the copper cupolas., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's manuscript note, probably misidentifying church location, on verso: Not in Poland. A Polish church at 28th and Wharton Sts. The lagoon is nothing but a mud puddle, formed by the drainage of rain from the street leval [sic] into this depression. The street at this point is from 4' to 5' above the bottom of what appears to be a charming lake. (Note: There is a large Polish settlement in the neighborhood, many of the men working in the nearby oil works at Point Breeze)., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.20: 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 215 [P.8513.215], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson215.htm

Title: [Probably Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, later Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Church at 28th and Snyder Sts., Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts the rear of a church with cupolas and spires, probably the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, later Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Church at 2101 S 28th Street (28th and Snyder Sts.). Church reflects into a large puddle in foreground of picture. Holy Virgin parish was formed by mainly Carpatho-Russian members of the community in 1913. In 1973 "rib type" cupolas replaced the copper cupolas., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's manuscript note, probably misidentifying church location, on verso of duplicate: Not in Poland. A Polish church at 28th and Wharton Sts. The lagoon is nothing but a mud puddle, formed by the dranage [sic] of rain from the street leval [sic] into this depression. The street at this point is from 4' to 5' above the bottom of what appears to be a charming lake. (Note - There is a large Polish settlement in the neighborhood, many of the men working in the nearby oil works at Point Breeze., Duplicate: P.8513.215: same neg., 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 20 [P.8513.20], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson215.htm

Title: [United Gas Improvement Company's Point Breeze Gas Works from the Passyunk Avenue bridge over the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia]
Description: Looking south from Passyunk Bridge over Schuylkill River, image depicts industrial area, including barge floating at river's edge, crane in distance, smokestacks, telephone wires, and various buildings of the United Gas Improvement Company's Point Breeze Gas Works., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso: U.G.I. Gas Works. Passayunk [sic] Ave. and 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 137 [P.8513.137], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson137.htm

Title: La[r]dners Point
Description: Depicts numerous large tubes lying in a grassy yard. Behind these rise four smokestacks and various industrial buildings. Smoke billows out of one building., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Ladner's [sic] Point - Pumping station above Arsnel [sic] [Arsenal], Frankford, Phila on Delaware River. (Find out capacity in gals per 24 hrs)., 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 208 [P.8513.208], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson208.htm

Title: Tree. 13th and Locust Sts
Description: View of tree growing out of sidewalk next to brick building with bay windows., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Said to have been planted by Alexander Hamilton. (Get in touch with Mr. Jackson about this. Tell story about old negro.), 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 135 [P.8513.135], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson135.htm

Title: A noble old oak
Description: View from a distance of large oak tree. A wooden structure surrounds base of tree trunk and provides benches. Man and woman sit on bench under tree., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: It is well over 100 years old, is at least 50 ft high and has a spread of 35 ft. It is on an estate in Germantown., 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 57 [P.8513.57], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson57.htm

Title: This tree was literally a shower of gold in the setting sun of late autumn
Description: Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Flanked on either [side] by the deep green of the spruce the picture was one worthy of a master brush. On an estate a little to the west of 69" and Market 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 76 [P.8513.76], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson76.htm

Title: This tree was literally a shower of gold in the setting sun of late autumn
Description: Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Flanked on either [side] by the deep green of the spruce the picture was one worthy of a master brush. On an estate a little to the west of 69" and Market 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 76 [P.8513.76], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson76.htm

Title: [Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St George, formerly St. Andrews Church, 250-256 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts church facade, including six-columned portico and pediment. Building was built from 1822 to 1823 and designed by architect John Haviland., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 8 ab Spruce. Said to be the most excellent example of Greek architecture in Phila., Now a Greek church, formerly an Episcopal Church [St Andrews]., 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 162 [P.8513.162], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson162.htm

Title: [John C. Bell and other residences, 22nd and Locust Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of facades of seven houses along Locust Street, and the first house on 22nd Street, which belonged to John C. Bell, district attorney of Philadelphia. This residence was built in 1905 after designs by architect Horace Trumbauer., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Location: 22nd and Locust St. One of the most artistic and interesting rows of houses in Phila. Note: no two houses are the same in style. There is represented colonial, modern colonial, English, and a mixture of colonial and French architecture., 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 186 [P.8513.186], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson186.htm

Title: Nearing the Atlantic Refining Co's plant at Point Breeze
Description: View from across barren yard of industrial area, including smokestacks and large gas containers. Smoke billows from the smokestacks., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The chimnies [sic] in the foreground are those of a brick kiln. View from 27"and Wharton. Two huge gas tanks are seen in the distance. The smoke is coming from the Refinery. (Get data as to great fires of the past in this plant, number of men employed, output per day. Fill in clouds.), 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 190 [P.8513.190], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson190.htm

Title: [Residence of John C. Bell, 22nd and Locust Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of doorway and five surrounding first- and second-story windows of brick dwelling belonging to John C. Bell, district attorney of Philadelphia. Columns and semicircular decorated window frame doorway. After designs by architect Horace Trumbauer, the residence was built in 1905., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A splendid type of colonial doorway. Marble (Italian) columns, steps and headpieces. Mahogony [sic] door., 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 136 [P.8513.136], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson136.htm

Title: Orthodox [Russian] Church and a much sign be-splattered home of a magician next to it at 700 no 5" St
Description: Shows home and business of "Professor Samuel H. Lingerman, The Celebrated Ventriloquist" at 705 North Fifth Street. Dwelling is covered in signs and advertisements. St. Andrew Russian Orthodox Church topped with spherical spires is visible next door., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso that incorrectly identifies church as "Orthodox Greek.", 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. 166., 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. 92.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 182 [P.8513.182], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson182.htm

Title: [Spring house at the Corinthian Yacht Club, Essington]
Description: Depicts small, old, stone house with a tree next to it that is hollow and reaches just above the house's roofline. Grass and bushes surround the rest of the house., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Corynthian [sic] Yacht Club, Essington, Pa. Spring House., 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 151 [P.8513.151], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson151.htm

Title: [St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, Kingsessing, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of ivy-covered facade of church which was designed by architect Thomas Webb Richards and built from 1762 to 1763 as a Swedish Lutheran church. It became an Episcopal church in 1810., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 58th [sic] and Woodland Ave. 18 century English., 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 173 [P.8513.173], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson173.htm

Title: [St. James Catholic Church, 3728 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of ivy-covered church facade, including several large stained glass windows. Designed by architect Edwin Forrest Durang, church was built 1881-1887., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Church 37" and Chestnut Sts. This would pass for a view of an old world church, either in France or England. Gothic., Duplicate: P.8513.28: same neg., 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 216 [P.8513.216], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson216.htm

Title: [Episcopal Church of St James the Less. Grounds entrance showing Nicetown Lane.]
Description: Depicts curved lane bordered by two stone walls. A tree grows behind one wall and shades the lane. Ivy-covered church stands behind the other stone wall on which hangs a sign that reads: Church of St. James The Less. All seats free. Church was built from 1846 to 1850 and designed by architect George Gordon Place., Built 1846-1850. Designed by English architect G.G. Place., 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 155 [P.8513.155], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson155.htm

Title: Old shot tower - 2nd and Carpenter Sts
Description: Depicts tall tower and lower surrounding buildings from beyond yard, iron fence, and street. Also known as the Sparks Shot Tower, it was built in 1808., 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 150 [P.8513.150], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson150.htm

Title: [St. Joseph's Sunday School and Church, 321-327 Willings Alley, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of two church entrances, one to Sunday School, the other to the church., 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 15 [P.8513.15], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson15.htm

Title: A skyline view made from a roof on 18th St. bet. Spruce and Locust Sts
Description: View of city skyline in background, including City Hall, with rooftops in foreground., 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 202 [P.8513.202], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson202.htm

Title: What was formerly an old farmhouse at 60th and Baltimore Ave
Description: Exterior view across yard of rear of farmhouse, including porch, flowers and tree planted in yard, and ivy growing on wall., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: We are looking at the back of it, which strange to say is the view seen from Baltimore Ave. It seems to have turned it [sic] back to the modern trolley, auto and other indications of up-to-date-ness., 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 187 [P.8513.187], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson187.htm

Title: [Blue Bell Tavern]
Description: View of three-and-a-half story stone building built at 7301-7399 Woodland Ave. in 1766. Tavern served as the southern gateway to Philadelphia; George Washington stopped here often. Top row of windows and dormer windows are boarded up., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Island Rd. and Woodland Ave. Blue Bell Inn., 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 194 [P.8513.194], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson194.htm

Title: [Keneseth Israel Temple, 1717 North Broad Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View shows facade of synagogue with two automobiles parked outside., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Not Cario [sic]. Venetian Campanile. E side Broad ab Columbia Ave., Similar view to P.8513.226., 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 128 [P.8513.128], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson128.htm

Title: [Keneseth Israel Temple, 1717 North Broad Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View of facade of synagogue with automobiles parked outside and people walking past., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: It could be mistaken for Bagdad [sic] or Cairo, but it is the Jewish Synagogue at Broad and Columbia Ave. (Get name of this Synagogue, name of Rabbi, heighth of tower, dome, seating capacity)., Similar view to P.8513.128., 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 226 [P.8513.226], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson226.htm

Title: [B'nai Abraham Synagogue, 521-527 Lombard Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of ornate facade of B'nai Abraham Synagogue from the south side of Lombard Street. Includes entrance with three arches, circular window, and spired rooftop. Designed by architect Charles Webber Bolton and built in 1910, building is located at 521-527 Lombard St., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Russian scene. Periode Bizantine [sic]. Lombard St bet[ween] 4" and 5" Sts., Duplicate: P.8513.19: same neg., 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 213 [P.8513.213], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson213.htm

Title: [Rodef Shalom Synagogue, 609-613 North Broad Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts alley surrounded by buildings with tower of synagogue at Broad and Green Streets in background. Synagogue was designed by architectural firm Fraser, Furness & Hewitt, built 1869, and demolished 1925., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A study in light and shade in a little street off 13th St ab[ove] Ridge Ave. The tower in the background is on the Synagogue a[t] Broad and Green 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 224 [P.8513.224], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson224.htm

Title: St. Rita's R.C. Church. Broad and Ellsworth Sts
Description: Depicts exterior facade of St. Rita's of Cascia Roman Catholic Church at 1154-1162 S. Broad Street taken from east side of Broad St. with two groups of people gathered on the front steps and sidewalk. Includes dramatic columned entrance. Designed by architect George Ignatius Lovatt, Sr., building was built c. 1907., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A good type of Italian architecture. This church is in one of the Italian sections of the city. Italian Renaissance. (Get more data)., 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 127 [P.8513.127], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson127.htm

Title: [Industrial buildings lining canal in Manayunk, Philadelphia during winter]
Description: Depicts buildings lining canal in Manayunk from opposite side of canal. Includes bridges crossing the canal., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Canal scene in winter - Manayunk, Phila. Along this canal are located the largest mills and factories of Manayunk, the output of which represents several hundred thousand dollars a year. Akin to a scene in Holland., Duplicate: P8513.18: same neg., 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. 68.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 214 [P.8513.214], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson214.htm

Title: [Industrial buildings lining canal in Manayunk, Philadelphia, during winter]
Description: Depicts buildings lining canal in Manayunk from opposite side of canal. Includes bridges crossing the canal., Photographer's manuscript note on duplicate: Canal scene in winter - Manayunk, Phila. Along this canal are located the largest mills and factories of Manayunk, the output of which represents several hundred thousand dollars a year. Akin to a scene in Holland., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.214: 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. 68.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 18 [P.8513.18], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson214.htm

Title: [Frame houses next to Manayunk canal, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts row houses built immediately next to canal. Shrubs grow around canal's stone wall and first floor of houses., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Scene along the canal at Manyunk [sic]. (Holland). (Blockout radio)., 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 125b [P.8513.125b], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson125b.htm

Title: John Callahan et-al at 23rd and South Sts
Description: Depicts John M. Callahan seated outdoors next to two signs advertising his candidacy for U.S. Senator. In the foreground are several varieties of stoves, a pump, and a teapot., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: John's business is Second Hand Furnishings, his hobbies are matrimony and Politics. Having been married 3 times, marriage has pulled upon him and politics now makes a tremendous appeal to his imagination as a patriot and citizen. He has run for president of the U.S., U.S. senator, U.S. congressman, mayor, councilman, magistrate and assessor of Phila. He has the distinction of never having been elected for any office for which he ran. (see biographical leaflet)., With printed biography., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.8: 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 91 [P.8513.91], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson91.htm

Title: View from s.w. side of Walnut St. bridge
Description: View of snow-covered industrial area next to Schuylkill River. Includes cattle in pen, wagons, trains, and smokestacks., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Note: cattle in pens, contractors storage yard, what young man said to young woman. Formerly Grey's stone yard. Among the first to take advantage of pneumatic stone cutting tools in Phila. Note: that Grey furnished all cut stone for Wanamaker store. His contract drove him into bankrupsy [sic]., Title from photographer' s manuscript note on verso., 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 184 [P.8513.184], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson184.htm

Title: [Passyunk Avenue Bridge over Schuylkill River, Philadelphia]
Description: View of raised Passyunk Avenue Bridge which was built in 1911 of steel., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Passayunk Ave. Bridge over Schuylkill., 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 161 [P.8513.161], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson161.htm

Title: [Mikveh Israel Cemetery gate, 12th and Federal Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of Mikveh Israel's Second Cemetery Gate built in 1849 at 1114 Federal St., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Cemetary [sic] Gate 12th and Federal Sts. Did my ears deceive me, or was somebody having a joke. I was told that the name of the burial place was the McIsrael. Note - Eastern style of architecture. (Get data on this place.), 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 185 [P.8513.185], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson185.htm

Title: Old graveyard. N.S. Spruce bet 8th & 9th
Description: View showing the front gate, adorned with a stone marker, of the Jewish Philadelphia cemetery Mikveh Israel. A brick wall surrounds the entrance with a wrought iron gate, which leads to a path through the cemetery. In the left, two men, including an African American, sit with their legs crossed on crates near the gate. Trees flank the gate, and more trees are visible beyond on the grounds. Established as a private burial ground in 1738 by Jewish businessman Nathan Levy, the cemetery was deeded to the Mikveh Israel congregation in 1774., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Gift of Mrs. Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.132], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson132.htm

Title: [Mount Sinai Cemetery gate, 1905 Bridge Street, Frankford, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts ivy-covered gate to cemetery, with automobile parked in front., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Jewish Cemetary [sic] Gate - Bridge St., Frankford, 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 122 [P.8513.122], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson122.htm

Title: [Odd Fellow's Hall, 3rd and Brown Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of building on northwest corner from southeast corner of intersection at 3rd and Brown Streets. International Order of Odd Fellows Hall was built in 1846 in the Egyptian Revival style, possibly designed by architect John Haviland, and burned in 1976., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Strange building at 3rd and Brown Sts. Note long window frames. Egyptian effects, wing under fire escape, third floor front etc. For many years occupied as a dance hall. Now devoted to offices and the storage of furniture. (Weaken "For Sale" sign.) Moorish., 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.8513.181], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson181.htm

Title: [Stone foundation at construction site and rear of row houses, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts construction site's stone foundation surrounded by wooden fence in foreground, with rear of row houses and a greenhouse in background. A man wearing a hat passes by the construction site., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Small residences such as we have been seeing once stood here. They have been torn down to make way for another tall - 'shove it-up-in-a-week' building. Tell story of Englishman and United State-sian argument apropos quick building (Woolworth Bldg N.Y.). This picture indicates the new form of loft-building , what may be termed the renessance [sic] in home structure in Phila, and the destruction of the small old colonial type. Note greenhouse on second floor at left of print. Explain the incident of clambering over fence to get this view., 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 145 [P.8513.145], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson145.htm

Title: Antique store, Pine Street e. of 13th St
Description: Exterior view depicting the two-and-a-half story 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, and weather vanes. Candlesticks and a menorah are displayed in the first floor windows. 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., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: An interesting old negro is the proprietor of this curious shop., Gift of Mrs. Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., 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.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.175], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson175.htm

Title: [Arcade Building, south Penn Square, west of Broad Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of Arcade Building at night with lights on in windows. Shows automobiles and horse-drawn carriages parked on street in front of building. Also known as the Commercial Trust Building, it was built from 1900 to 1902 at 1428-1434 Market Street by architects Furness, Evans & Co. Building was demolished in 1969., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Finance Building. So. Penn Sq. W. of Broad St. Early evening. Winter. Taken from P.R.R. balcony. Enlarge. Work out halations., Duplicate: P.8513.16: same neg., 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 210 [P.8513.210], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson210.htm

Main menu

Pages