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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: [Josef Yazbek, Syrian Catholic Bishop]
Description: Depicts full-length portrait of Josef Yazbek., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso of duplicate., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Guess the nationality of this man. He is the verry [sic] Rev. Josef Yazbek, Syrian Catholic Bishop of the U.S. - and not a Jewish Rabbi. An intensly [sic] interesting man, a tempermental [sic] man, an abrupt man and one who is exceptionally well informed [sic]. (Relate a few incidents.), 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 110 [P.8513.110], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson110.htm

Title: Manayunk: in the summer
Description: Depicts railroad tracks, stone wall bordering tracks, and stone steps leading to tracks in foreground. Houses built on hills of Manayunk appear in the background., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The Readnig [sic] [Reading] R.R. tracks run along this street, which is the first street north of Main St., 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 198 [P.8513.198], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson198.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: A group of young hill climbers of Manyunk [sic] with a background of overlapping roofs, to say nothing of a weekly wash
Description: Depicts seven children standing in the snow in front of a wooden fence. Background of image includes the backs of houses built on a hill, backyards separated by fences, and wash hanging on clotheslines., 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 95 [P.8513.95], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson95.htm

Title: Remington Rd. just beyond 69th and Market Sts
Description: View of bridge crossing rocky creek bordered by trees., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A more romantic stretch of road than the Wissahickon Drive, but not as well kept. Deserted old houses, old bridge heads, huge rock outcroppings, a laughing stream that ever and anon in placid mood seems to whimsically borrod over the sun kissed ripples that have gone or the babble of playful turbulance [sic] to the fore. All these things greet the eye. Travelers do not jamb the road or paths and automobiles praise Heaven are few., 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 66 [P.8513.66], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson66.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: [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: [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: 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: [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: [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: 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: 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: 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: [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: [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: [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: Rittenhouse Sq. Our little magnolia tree in winter time
Description: View of entire magnolia tree in the snow without leaves or blossoms on its branches. Buildings visible in background., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., One of four Wilson images depicting the Rittenhouse magnolia tree in each of the four seasons., 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 130 [P.8513.130], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson130.htm

Title: Our little magnolia tree-- Rittenhouse Sq. as it appears in the fall
Description: Depicts entire magnolia tree carrying darkly-colored leaves, with buildings surrounding Rittenhouse Square in the background., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., One of four Wilson images depicting the Rittenhouse magnolia tree in each of the four seasons., 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 148 [P.8513.148], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson148.htm

Title: Magnolia tree Rittenhouse Sq. Summer
Description: View of the full tree. Buildings surrounding Rittenhouse Square are visible in background., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., One of four Wilson images depicting the Rittenhouse magnolia tree in each of the four seasons., 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 159 [P.8513.159], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson159.htm

Title: Rittenhouse Sq. Our little Magnolia in spring garb
Description: Depicts view of entire magnolia tree full of blooms., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: "Nest packer Essays" Geo Fitch., One of four Wilson images depicting the Rittenhouse magnolia tree in each of the four seasons., 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 146 [P.8513.146], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson146.htm

Title: Magnolias from our little tree in Rittenhouse Sq
Description: Close-up view of flowers on magnolia tree in Rittenhouse Square., Similar views: P.8513.159, P.8513.148, P.8513.146, P.8513.130., 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 50 [P.8513.50], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson50.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: A young miss, a little flower, a winding path and a unique skyline, near Overbrook
Description: Depicts young woman in patterned dress standing on path into woods., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: If you're in a big city and without acquaintances, get a camra [sic] or something that looks like one, wander around looking serious and either taking pictures or appearing to take them; act critically, slowly and deliberately. If in one Sunday afternoon you do not greet, or are not greeted by at least 10 people, then you are hopeless. Boys if you make a photo such as this, the rest is easy. Obtain the address and send her a print via F.O.B. [Free on Board--shipping is responsibility of buyer] yourself., 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 96 [P.8513.96], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson96.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: Rittenhouse Sq
Description: Group portrait of five girls and one woman in winter coats, hats, and gloves behind snow pile., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: An Allied fortress representing two Polish children and one each American, English, French, Irish, and Italian., 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 119b [P.8513.119b], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson119b.htm

Title: [Factory building, Manayunk]
Description: Depicts four large stone buildings along a street on a hillside. Telephone poles and wires line 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 Wilson 156 [P.8513.156], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson156.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: [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: 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: [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: [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: [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: [Remington Road ruins]
Description: View of ruin of stone buildings with rubble spilling from interior. Trees grow around buildings., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Not a Verdun ruin. A ruin probibly [sic] from 125 to 150 or 160 yrs old, it would seem to be one of the first attempts to erect an operation in this section. There are indications that 5 dwellings were embodied in the structure. The ceilings were verry [sic] low and the rooms exceptionally small (about 12' x 15'). Located on Remington Rd., just W of 69th and Market Sts., Duplicate: P.8513.27: 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 209 [P.8513.209], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson209.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, Select City Council Chamber]
Description: Depicts Select City Council Chamber (i.e. Office of Chief Clerk, Room # 402), including ornate wood paneling, desks and chairs. Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Council Chamber. 4th floor N.S. City Hall. All chairs and desks, solid mahogany. All panels inlaid. Highly ornamental carving. Surbase [sic] Italian marble. Bronz [sic] scroll guards on desks. Outer curtins [sic] yellow silk. Inner curtins [sic] dark blue silk. Ceiling gold leaf., 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 43 [P.8513.43], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson43.htm

Title: Logan Square, Park Boulevard, Philadelphia
Description: Scene depicting two African American women walking past the Swann Memorial Fountain at Logan Square in Philadelphia before the installation of Alexander Stirling Calder's sculpted naiad figures in 1924. In the foreground, two women walk side-by-side on the sidewalk in front of the active fountain. Walking on the inside, the woman is attired in a black dress, stockings, and shoes, and the woman walking on the outside closer to the viewer is attired in a patterned dress, black stockings, and shoes., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from content., Duplicate print of P.8513.9., 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.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.109], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson109.htm

Title: View from roof of house 20th and Locust Sts
Description: Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Notre Dame in foreground, Belfry of Holy Trinity and the Wellington Apts. (Make one of the Holy Trinity bell tower from street at sunset)., 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 204 [P.8513.204], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson204.htm

Title: Odd house, 3803 Locust [Street]
Description: Exterior view showing one of two speculative houses commissioned in 1851 by Philadelphia developer Samuel Aden Harrison. Built after the designs of Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan, the gothic-style house with bay windows was to be a model for a proposed upper class residential suburb in West Philadelphia., 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 photo - Wilson [P.8513.196], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson196.htm

Title: [House at Pine Street between 21st and 22nd streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the residence at 2103 Pine Street near Rittenhouse Square., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: House. Pine St. bet. 21" and 22" Sts. Note: Canopy form of cornish makes building seem top heavy. Little balcony with bay window. Probably an adaption [sic] of some Italian style. Florentine. Venetian., 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.8513.189], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson189.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: [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: 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: [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

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