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- Title
- [House and court on Fourth Street above Arch Street, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- Nighttime view of three-story brick house and adjacent courtyard., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The atmosphere of Soho or Whitechapel, London. As one of our friends said "A good place for a murder." It is a night picture of a house and court on 4" ab. Arch St. (Note reflection of St. lamp on walls up the court. The party residing in the house has been living there 60 years. Rent of houses in court - [$]9.00 per mo. (Tell about Pud's Poolroom across the street)., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.221], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson221.htm
- Title
- Lantern Lane
- Description
- Depicts small court between row houses. Each house has a lantern hanging on the wall next to front door. Lanterns also rest atop brick gateposts at court entrance. Taller buildings visible in background., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Ludlow St bet 18" and 19" Sts. An acquaintance of ours suggests that an apparently good way to make money is to buy a row of houses for $10,000 with a $9500 mortgague [sic] and $500 cash. Then paint the shutters alternately green and red, the doors pink and yellow, after which sell the properties at $10,000 each. Dutch., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 195 [P.8513.195], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson195.htm
- Title
- [Quaint house on unidentified street between 2nd and 3rd Streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View showing a residence in a courtyard . A group of children and a woman gather in front of the dwelling near a small garden. Also shows a young child leaning on a water fountain near a picket fence in the foreground., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note by photographer on verso: Quaint House on _______ St. bet. 2" and 3.", Duplicate of P.8513.10., 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.8513.106], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson106.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
- Back of the State House, Philadelphia
- Description
- View of the courtyard and rear of the State House, with the mason tall case clock visible on the west wall. Several visitors utilize the grounds, including a delegation of Native Americans on tour, strolling couples, women promenading, and boys playing near a grove of trees. In the background, stand the American Philosophical Hall (built 1789); the site of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Library Hall (built 1791); and guard houses. Also visible is signage for Peale's Museum, housed in American Philosophical Hall between 1794 and 1811., Contains watermark: AMIES PHILA and dove with branch., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 22., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
- Date
- [1828]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [ Sn 22c/P.2276.50]
- Title
- [Back of the State House, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View of the courtyard and rear of the State House with the mason tall case clock visible on the west wall. Several visitors utilize the grounds including a delegation of Native Americans on tour, strolling couples, women promenading, and boys playing near a grove of trees. In the background, stand the American Philosophical Hall (completed in 1789); the site of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Library Hall (completed in1791); and guard houses. Also visible is signage for Peale's Museum, housed in American Philosophical Hall between 1794 and 1811., Print trimmed., Title from duplicate print., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 22., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- W. Birch & Son
- Date
- 1799
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 22a/P.2276.49]
- Title
- Court. Lombard St. W. of 7
- Description
- Depicts the courtyard between the brick residences of 710 and 714 Lombard Street, Philadelphia. An African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, a white shirt, dark-colored pants, and shoes, stands in the courtyard near 710 facing the viewer. In the right, several children, including African Americans, sit on the stoop of the opposite residence. Chairs are visible in the courtyard., Title from manuscript note on verso., Gift of 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 photo - Wilson [P.8513.88], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson88.htm
- Title
- Court. Lombard St. W. of 7
- Description
- Depicts the courtyard between the brick residences of 710 and 714 Lombard Street, Philadelphia. An African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, a white shirt, dark-colored pants, and shoes, stands in the courtyard near 710 facing the viewer. In the right, several children, including African Americans, sit on the stoop of the opposite residence. Chairs are visible in the courtyard., Title from manuscript note on verso., Gift of 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 photo - Wilson [P.8513.88], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson88.htm