Shows home and business of "Professor Samuel H. Lingerman, The Celebrated Ventriloquist" at 705 North Fifth Street. Dwelling is covered in signs and advertisements. St. Andrew Russian Orthodox Church topped with spherical spires is visible next door., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso that incorrectly identifies church as "Orthodox Greek.", 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. 166., 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. 92.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 182 [P.8513.182], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson182.htm
