Seven boys pose in the midst of digging a ditch near the Schuylkill River. Across the river, smokestacks and industrial buildings are visible., Location: About 4 blocks bel. Gray's Ferry Bridge - Schuylkill River., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Do you remember the story of the bloodthirsty buncaneers [sic] -- how they dug holes in the earth and buried their treasure, how your heart thumped with excitement as their doings were told or read. Perhaps you did not have an opportunity to dig holes for the purpose of burying or finding treasure. These youngsters have, and are in a way, exercising that privlidge [sic]. Hence what is lost in a cozy playroom, is found in the freedom of the outdoors. But these free lances are not burying or seeking gold. Truth to tell it was a bitter cold day and there was a high wind, so these pirates were engaged in digging fire holes in the side of the ditch, for the verry [sic] pratical [sic] purpose of arranging a set of ovens, firing them and so keeping warm. This exposure was made about 4 blocks bel. Gray's Ferry Bridge - Schuylkill River., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 99 [P.8513.99], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson99.htm
Winter scene depicting buildings next to the Schuylkill River in the foreground. The hills of Manayunk and the houses built on them rise in the background., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Many people in Manayunk live on a bluff. The Schuylkill river is in the foreground., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 192 [P.8513.192], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson192.htm
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
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
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
