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- Title
- [Frame rowhouses, East Thompson and East Columbia Streets, Fishtown, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- Depicts a block of dilapidated row houses. Nearest house advertises oysters and clams. Trolly tracks run in street; trees grow along sidewalk., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: An entire row of old frame houses in Fishtown, Phila. Thompson and _______ Sts. These houses were recently torn down (1923) to make way for a playground., 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 230 [P.8513.230], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson230.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
- 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
- A quaint cute old house on Race St. bet. 2nd and 3rd
- Description
- View showing the residential row house with lace draperies adorning the windows. Four children sit on the small stoop and stand near the cellar door of the house., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: They could not spoil it entirely by having half glass saches [sic] installed in the windows or placing the glass panel in the door. Imagine the small panes of glass of colonial days, in the windows and the two original narrow wood panels placed back in the door in leau [sic] of the glass. See how much better it looks?, 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.8513.111], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson111.htm
- Title
- Frame houses and an odd skyline at Thompson St. and Susquehanna Ave. -- Kensington, Phila
- Description
- Depicts wood row houses., 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 139 [P.8513.139], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson139.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 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
- 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
- [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
- [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
- [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
- Court off Ellsworth St. No. side E of 10 St
- Description
- Depicts fifteen children in the courtyard between their row homes. Two boys in the background have climbed a lampost to pose for the picture. Two other boys are posed with their fists clenched in a boxer's stance. One older girl holds a younger child and faces away from the camera. Still other children pose proudly. Wash hangs in the courtyard., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Court off Ellsworth St, No side E of 10 St. This court - or rather the buildings in it - are comparatively new, consequently it is comparatively sanatary [sic]. All the children in this picture live in the 5 houses comprising this court. It is from this and the Southwark districts that the glovemen of the squared circle principally eminate [sic]. Note two prospective champions in 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 85 [P.8513.85], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson85.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
- [View of rooftop chicken coop at 10th and Ellsworth Streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Neighborhood 10" and Ellsworth Sts. How to duck the health inspectors prying eye. Keep the chickens on the roof. (Print left side stronger)., 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 171 [P.8513.171], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson171.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
- [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
- [Behind row houses in Italian and Syrian neighborhood at 10th and Ellsworth Sts., Philadelphia]
- Description
- View of rear of row houses, including hanging wash, outbuildings, trees., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 10 and Ellsworth Sts. Looking into our neighbors [sic] back yards. Italian and Syrian settlement. (Block out skyline in regular way. Fill in a few clouds)., 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 227 [P.8513.227], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson227.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
- [John C. Bell and other residences, 22nd and Locust Streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View of facades of seven houses along Locust Street, and the first house on 22nd Street, which belonged to John C. Bell, district attorney of Philadelphia. This residence was built in 1905 after designs by architect Horace Trumbauer., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Location: 22nd and Locust St. One of the most artistic and interesting rows of houses in Phila. Note: no two houses are the same in style. There is represented colonial, modern colonial, English, and a mixture of colonial and French architecture., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 186 [P.8513.186], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson186.htm