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
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
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
