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- Title
- [Roof of Post Office, 9th Street between Market and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View of post office rooftop decorated with three allegorical figures sculpted by Daniel Chester French. Female figure in center represents Law; she is flanked by male figure representing Power and another female figure representing Prosperity. Architect John McArthur, Jr. supervised the building of the post office from 1873-1884., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Who knows where this is? Roof of Postoffice Building. 9" St. bet. Market and Chestnut Sts. 9" St. side. Taken from fire escape on 7" floor of Gimbel Bros' store. (What does group represent), 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 153 [P.8513.153], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson153.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
- [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, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View of row houses with cellar doors on street. A woman stands on front step looking at camera. Tree and telephone wires rise out of sidewalk., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Possibly the only row of houses desplaying [sic] the quaint old cellar doors in Phila at the present time. (1923). These cellar ways lead into a sort of combined basement, kitchen, and dining room., 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 Wilson 140 [P.8513.140], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson140.htm
- Title
- [Ruins of house in Manayunk, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Depicts remains of house in Manayunk that include stone wall with four openings in wall, three of them windows and one possibly for a fireplace, and partial roof. House's debris is visible through openings in the wall., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: An old wall and windows at Manyunk [sic]- on the banks of the canal and under the P.R.R. bridge. (make another point - and block out wall)., 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 48 [P.8513.48], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson48.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
- 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
- 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
- [Scene with fence, garden, and buildings]
- Description
- Depicts a garden beyond a fence in the foreground, with buildings in the background., 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 53a [P.8513.53a], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson53a.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
- [The Seaman's Home, northwest corner of 2nd and Queen Streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View of building facade with a group of young men congregated around entrance looking at camera. Another building, perhaps a store, appears in background with groups gathered near it's entrance. Designed by architect Frank Furness, the Seaman's Home was built in 1878 at the northwest corner of Front and Queen Streets. Building began as a church for seamen and became a boys' club in the 1920s. It is also known by the names Church of the Redeemer for Seamen and their Families, Neighborhood Boy's Club, and Church of the Redeemer. Building burned 1974., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: It is not in England despite the decidedly English style of architecture. It is the Seamans Home. 2" and Queen Sts. Note old house in background and tell about the outpouring of young men and boys., Duplicate: P.8513.25: 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 114 [P.8513.114], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson114.htm
- Title
- [A shady glade near the Pennypack, north Philadelphia]
- Description
- Depicts Pennypack Creek flowing downhill past rocks and beneath trees., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A shady glade - near the Pennypack, no. Phila. We follow this ridge of rock down hill a few hundred feet and come upon a small brook as well as one of its wee tributaries., Duplicate: P.8513.2: 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 72 [P.8513.72], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson72.htm
- Title
- [Sign for Bethlehem Fabricators, Inc.]
- Description
- Close-up view of sign for Bethlehem Fabricators, Inc. posted on a brick wall below a windowsill., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Broad and Pine Sts: Sign. Could be a revival of Annaias [?] Club., 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 126 [P.8513.126], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson126.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
- [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
- [Spring flowing into stream]
- Description
- View of spring flowing into another stream between rocks. Trees and bushes grow on banks., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The wee tributary seem [sic] to spring from nowhere and plung [sic] into the main stream without fuss or confusion. O, that we could enter and flow along with the stream of life with the quietude and complacency of this wee brook. Why the battle? Why the strife? Why the doubt? Why the fear? Irving wrote (in his "The Brook") "while I go on forever" so it is with life, not what we matearialistic [sic] call life. Ah! No. The spirit, that inner life. The infinite, that all enveloping [sic] life - forever, onward, into the glow of understanding, achieving, persuing [sic], enjoying, loving. In a word forever. A soul comes into being, a soul will forever be., 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 73 [P.8513.73], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson73.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. Albans Place, between Fulton and Clymer, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View of identical row houses with a garden along the street in front of the houses. Five people stand near one 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 170 [P.8513.170], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson170.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
- [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. 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
- [St Mark's Rectory, 18th and Locust Streets, northeast corner, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Depicts view of rectory facade and entrance onto 18th Street, taken from southwest corner of intersection. Parish house designed by architects Hazelhurst & Huckel and built 1892-1893., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A bit of old England at E. Rittenhouse Sq and Locust St. Fine type of old country house., Duplicate: P.8513.24: 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 220 [P.8513.220], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson220.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
- [Stable with man, woman, and horse]
- Description
- View of yard in front of stable. Man stands holding horse and woman stands next to buggy. Part of automobile appears at edge of picture., Woman depicted in this photograph also appears in Wilson photographs P.8513.81, P.8513.86., 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 82 [P.8513.82], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson82.htm
- Title
- [Staircase rising above snow-covered boulders, Manayunk, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Depicts people climbing exterior staircase that rises above snow-covered boulders in Manayunk, Philadelphia., Title from manuscript on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The Switzerland of Phila is Manyunk [sic]. No wonder it is said the people of Manyunk [sic] get round shouldered from climbing the hills of that busy section of Phila, but to add stair cases such as these would seem to add insult to injury., 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 125a [P.8513.125a], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson125a.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
- [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
- [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
- [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
- [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
- [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 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
- 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
- [Tenements 1-2 and 3-4, Workman Place, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Depicts four of the seven brick tenements at 110-112 Pemberton St. built in 1748 for George Mifflin. John Workman, a South Carolina lumber merchant, bought the properties from Mifflin's grandson, John, and built the larger properties in front of these tenements at 742-746 S. Front St. in 1812-1813. This group of houses is still named for Workman. The initials "GM" (for George Mifflin) appear on the north wall of 110 Pemberton St. (Tenements 1-2), and the date "1748" appears on the north wall of 112 Pemberton St. (Tenements 3-4)., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Quaint Houses. ________ St. bet 2" and 3"., 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 149 [P.8513.149], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson149.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
- [Three row houses in Irish neighborhood at 2nd and Noble Streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Exterior view of facade of three row houses, with a telephone pole lying in the street and a small lantern sitting next to it. Presumably an Irish neighborhood., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A bit of old Ireland at 2" and Noble 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 193 [P.8513.193], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson193.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
- [Trees covered in ice and snow near the Frankford Elevated at 69th and Market Streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A little west of 69: St. El., terminal. A group of ice laden trees and underbrush., Similar view to P.8513.67., 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 59 [P.8513.59], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson59.htm
- Title
- [Trees covered in ice and snow west of 69th Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Snow and ice cover the ground and trees beyond a fence, west of 69th St, Philadelphia., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 69th St. (a few blocks beyond) within sight of City Hall (figuratively). Trees covered with ice., 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 79 [P.8513.79], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson79.htm
- Title
- [Trolley car at 69th and Market Streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Depicts trolley car on blocks above rails., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 69" and Market Sts. Do you remember them when they were like this? Men grabed [sic] the hand rail and swung aboard before the car came to a stop. The pole was always parting company with the wire. The boys and men crowded the front and back platforms. You froze inthem during the winter, baked during summer and all year around, after a long ride, got off at your destination with a backache, because the seats were so comfortable - not. Them was the good old days - maybe., 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 154 [P.8513.154], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson154.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
- [Two boys in front of the Swann Memorial Fountain in Logan Circle in winter.]
- Description
- Two boys in snow-covered coats stand on the frozen water of Swann Memorial Fountain looking at the camera. 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. Two citizens who were throwing the bull on the Boulevard. One said he was the best looking kid in his class - the other replied, "G'wan! If you'r [sic] the best-looker in the class I'm Jack Dempsy" [sic] [Dempsey]., 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 120 [P.8513.120], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson120.htm
- Title
- [Unidentified man and woman standing near large doorway]
- Description
- Woman in loose, patterned dress and black and white low-heeled shoes stands outside large open doors of brick building (possibly a barn or stable), looking at camera. Man stands within the shadows inside doorway also looking at camera, wearing an apron, tie, and shirt, and holding a tool that reaches to the ground., Woman depicted in this photograph also appears in Wilson photographs P.8513.82, P.8513.86., 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 81 [P.8513.81], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson81.htm
- Title
- [Unidentified man sitting on old coach]
- Description
- Depicts young man sitting on old coach in slightly reclined position with arms folded across chest and eyes closed. An old wagon is parked nearby. Both vehicles are parked in piles of leaves in front of building., 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 90 [P.8513.90], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson90.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
- [Unidentified photographer in field with view camera]
- Description
- 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 103 [P.8513.103], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson103.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
- [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
- [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