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Title: A young miss, a little flower, a winding path and a unique skyline, near Overbrook
Description: Depicts young woman in patterned dress standing on path into woods., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: If you're in a big city and without acquaintances, get a camra [sic] or something that looks like one, wander around looking serious and either taking pictures or appearing to take them; act critically, slowly and deliberately. If in one Sunday afternoon you do not greet, or are not greeted by at least 10 people, then you are hopeless. Boys if you make a photo such as this, the rest is easy. Obtain the address and send her a print via F.O.B. [Free on Board--shipping is responsibility of buyer] yourself., 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 96 [P.8513.96], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson96.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: [University of Pennsylvania, Provost's Tower dormitory framed by columned archway, 37th Street and Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: View through arch of University of Pennsylvania dormitories known as The Quad, or Quadrangle Dormitories. Arch is adorned with ivy, columns, and various decorative architectural elements. In the distance, Provost's Tower is visible. Architectural firm Cope and Stewardson designed the Quad, which was built from 1894 - 1911. It is located between S. 36th St., S. 38th St., Spruce St., and Woodland Ave. That part of Woodland Ave. is now called Hamilton Walk., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: U. of P. Arch and Gate Tower. Dormatory Bldgs. 37" and Woodland. Elizabethian., 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 177 [P.8513.177], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson177.htm

Title: [University of Pennsylvania Botanical Gardens, snow scene along roadway, Philadelphia]
Description: Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Snow scene along roadway in U of P Botanical Gardens., 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 69 [P.8513.69], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson69.htm

Title: [University of Pennsylvania Botanical Gardens, snow-covered bushes and trees, with dormitory buildings visible in background, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts snow-covered bushes and trees near iron fence. Towers of Quadrangle dormitory buildings on University of Pennsylvania campus appear in background., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: U. of P. Botanical Gardens. Tops of Dormatory [sic] Gateway on Woodland Ave., corner in distance., 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 77 [P.8513.77], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson77.htm

Title: [University of Pennsylvania Botanical Gardens, snow-covered bushes, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows snow covered bushes next to wall., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Botanical Gardens. U. of P. Along rear wall of Phila Gen'l Hospital., 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 54 [P.8513.54], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson54.htm

Title: [University of Pennsylvania, entrance to Botanical Gardens, off Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: View of iron gate and walkway extending into the distance between University of Pennsylvania buildings. Trees border walkway in distance., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: U. of P. Entrance to Botanical Gardens - off Woodland Ave., 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 157 [P.8513.157], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson157.htm

Title: [Factory building, Manayunk]
Description: Depicts four large stone buildings along a street on a hillside. Telephone poles and wires line 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 Wilson 156 [P.8513.156], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson156.htm

Title: [Boxwood tree]
Description: Depicts large tree, with branches reaching the ground., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: One of the largest boxwood trees we ever saw. It is on an estate west of 69 and Market Sts., is at least 18 ft high and is approximately 30 ft wide at the base. (Tell about colored caretaker and our arrival through the rear entrance.), 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 65a [P.8513.65a], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson65a.htm

Title: Scene from s. side w. end South St Bridge, Phila
Description: View of industrial landscape along Schuylkill River south of South Street Bridge against winter sky., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Elect., Chester tie line standards (5000 volts), Coal crane, Grey's [sic] [Gray's] Ferry Bridge, rain soaked flats and winter sky., 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 80 [P.8513.80], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson80.htm

Title: Tree. 13th and Locust Sts
Description: View of tree growing out of sidewalk next to brick building with bay windows., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Said to have been planted by Alexander Hamilton. (Get in touch with Mr. Jackson about this. Tell story about old negro.), 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 135 [P.8513.135], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson135.htm

Title: What was formerly an old farmhouse at 60th and Baltimore Ave
Description: Exterior view across yard of rear of farmhouse, including porch, flowers and tree planted in yard, and ivy growing on wall., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: We are looking at the back of it, which strange to say is the view seen from Baltimore Ave. It seems to have turned it [sic] back to the modern trolley, auto and other indications of up-to-date-ness., 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 187 [P.8513.187], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson187.htm

Title: [Blue Bell Tavern]
Description: View of three-and-a-half story stone building built at 7301-7399 Woodland Ave. in 1766. Tavern served as the southern gateway to Philadelphia; George Washington stopped here often. Top row of windows and dormer windows are boarded up., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Island Rd. and Woodland Ave. Blue Bell Inn., 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 194 [P.8513.194], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson194.htm

Title: John Callahan et-al at 23rd and South Sts
Description: Depicts John M. Callahan seated outdoors next to two signs advertising his candidacy for U.S. Senator. In the foreground are several varieties of stoves, a pump, and a teapot., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: John's business is Second Hand Furnishings, his hobbies are matrimony and Politics. Having been married 3 times, marriage has pulled upon him and politics now makes a tremendous appeal to his imagination as a patriot and citizen. He has run for president of the U.S., U.S. senator, U.S. congressman, mayor, councilman, magistrate and assessor of Phila. He has the distinction of never having been elected for any office for which he ran. (see biographical leaflet)., With printed biography., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.8: 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 91 [P.8513.91], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson91.htm

Title: [Passyunk Avenue Bridge over Schuylkill River, Philadelphia]
Description: View of raised Passyunk Avenue Bridge which was built in 1911 of steel., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Passayunk Ave. Bridge over Schuylkill., 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 161 [P.8513.161], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson161.htm

Title: [Remington Road ruins]
Description: View of ruin of stone buildings with rubble spilling from interior. Trees grow around buildings., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Not a Verdun ruin. A ruin probibly [sic] from 125 to 150 or 160 yrs old, it would seem to be one of the first attempts to erect an operation in this section. There are indications that 5 dwellings were embodied in the structure. The ceilings were verry [sic] low and the rooms exceptionally small (about 12' x 15'). Located on Remington Rd., just W of 69th and Market Sts., Duplicate: P.8513.27: same neg., 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 209 [P.8513.209], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson209.htm

Title: N.W. 23 and Market Sts. Monument
Description: Depicts monument in the shape of an obelisk topped with a sundial which stood at the western approach to the Schuylkill Permanent Bridge at Market Street until 1840, when it was removed to 23rd and Market Streets. Inscriptions describing the bridge and it's construction from 1800 to 1805 decorate the four sides of the obelisk. Industrial building appears in background., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: (Find out what it commemorates)., 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 178 [P.8513.178], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson178.htm

Title: [Stable with man, woman, and horse]
Description: View of yard in front of stable. Man stands holding horse and woman stands next to buggy. Part of automobile appears at edge of picture., Woman depicted in this photograph also appears in Wilson photographs P.8513.81, P.8513.86., 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 82 [P.8513.82], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson82.htm

Title: Scene on the Schuylkill from E bank near Spruce St
Description: View of industrial riverfront along Schuylkill River. Crane appears in foreground; South Street bridge and boat named "Friendship" with four sail masts appear in background., Title from photographer's manuscript on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Note: foreground, packet-crane for unloading coal from boats. 4 mast schooner in distance for sale. Name of schooner "Frienship". South St. bridge in background. (pen on word sale (sail) and on name of boat; put clouds in., 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 203 [P.8513.203], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson203.htm

Title: Bread St. bel. Arch St. A Jewish family and a delegation of the darktown brigade
Description: Exterior view of depicting the entrance of a Jewish family’s brick house north of Arch Street in Philadelphia. In the right, a white man, attired in a cap, a collared sweater, pants, and shoes, holds a broom and sweeps in front of the door. In the left, four white women peer out of two first-floor shuttered windows and look at the viewer. Underneath the windows five young African American children sit, attired in winter hats and coats. Smoke from a fire in the street wafts in front of the children., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Wisp of haze near centre of picture is smoke from a fire in the street opposite the house. Certin [sic] rooms in the building had just been papered and a bonfire was made of the refuse. This house is about 125 yrs old. Note the splendid condition of the brick work and mortor [sic] joints. Bricks were carfully [sic] made in those days. The proper proportion and careful selection of loam, shale and sand was an art. Then too the drying and baking of the brick was of vast importance and was done with the utmost attention towards the securing of the best results. These bricks were baked with wood fires, as was the lime on which they were laid. Explain why wood baked lime and bricks are superior to the coal baked product., 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 Wilson [P.8513.84], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson84.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

Title: Bread St. bel. Arch St
Description: Exterior view of depicting the entrance of a Jewish family’s brick house north of Arch Street in Philadelphia. In the right, a white man, attired in a cap, a collared sweater, pants, and shoes, holds a broom and sweeps in front of the door. In the left, four white women peer out of two first-floor shuttered windows and look at the viewer. Underneath the windows five young African American children sit, attired in winter hats and coats., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: (without wisp of smoke). Mortor [sic] was mixed in those days in a huge mortor [sic] box. The lime was slacked by shoveling it into the box, permitting water to flow into the box and keeping the mass in constant motion with a hoe, thereby preventing the lime from being burned or killed, when properly slacked, it was run off into a basin of sand, where it was mixed with the sand and made ready for use., 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 Wilson [P.8513.97], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson97.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, stairway]
Description: Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: View of self-supporting stairway. City Hall corner towers., 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 31 [P.8513.31], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson31.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, view from below of stairwell]
Description: Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: City Hall: self-supporting stairway, corner towers. Looking directly upward. Stairs of Granite. Banisters [sic] of Bronz [sic]. 156 steps., 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 39 [P.8513.39], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson39.htm

Title: [Abandoned residence west of 69th and Market streets on Remington Road, Upper Darby]
Description: Shows an abandoned dwelling in the middle of a field covered in brush in a suburb near Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Away out in the country? Not at all - simply an abandoned old house a bit west of 69" and Market Sts on Remington Rd., 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.8513.236], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson236.htm

Title: [Syrian American woman named Selina holding knitting, looking at camera]
Description: 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

Title: Cider press in Bartram gardens. Phila
Description: Large irregularly-shaped flat stone on the ground surrounded by an iron fence. Leafless trees and a bench visible outside of the fence. Bartram's Gardens, the first botanic garden in the country cultivated by botanist and farmer John Bartram in the mid 18th century, was restored by the John Bartram Association in the 1920s after many years of neglect., Title from manuscript note by photographer 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 photo - Wilson [P.8513.64], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson64.htm

Title: La[r]dners Point
Description: Depicts numerous large tubes lying in a grassy yard. Behind these rise four smokestacks and various industrial buildings. Smoke billows out of one building., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Ladner's [sic] Point - Pumping station above Arsnel [sic] [Arsenal], Frankford, Phila on Delaware River. (Find out capacity in gals per 24 hrs)., 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 208 [P.8513.208], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson208.htm

Title: View from s.w. side of Walnut St. bridge
Description: 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

Title: [Unidentified man sitting on old coach]
Description: Depicts young man sitting on old coach in slightly reclined position with arms folded across chest and eyes closed. An old wagon is parked nearby. Both vehicles are parked in piles of leaves in front of building., 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 90 [P.8513.90], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson90.htm

Title: Where have all the cigar store Indians gone
Description: View of female wooden cigar store Indian statue standing on pedestal on sidewalk in front of building. Pedestal reads "Chas. Seider, Manufacturer." Signs posted on building read: "Radio News in The Bulletin" and "Local and Long Distance. Keystone Telephone Pay Station." Statue wears feathered headdress, skirt, dangling earrings, and lifts something in her left hand., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Here is one at 4" and race [sic]. The really fine examples of the wood carvers [sic] art, as applied to these images, has disappeared from the pavements of the corner cigar stores. The Indian introduced tobacco, hence the symbol of the sign. (Find out name of man who made a business of such work in Phila. Trace his line with the carving of figure heads on old sailing vessels, the figures on Morse, Spanish and Italian boats. Mention totem poles., 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 174 [P.8513.174], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson174.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: [Sign for Bethlehem Fabricators, Inc.]
Description: Close-up view of sign for Bethlehem Fabricators, Inc. posted on a brick wall below a windowsill., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Broad and Pine Sts: Sign. Could be a revival of Annaias [?] Club., 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 126 [P.8513.126], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson126.htm

Title: [Old carriage in field in front of house]
Description: 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 55 [P.8513.55], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson55.htm

Title: 2nd and Brown St. A stevedore, a family
Description: Depicts an African American dock worker in his work clothes posed outside of his Philadelphia home with his four children. The children are dressed in old, worn clothes. In the left, the teenaged boy, attired in a knit cap, a coat, pants, and shoes, has a stern expression as he looks at the viewer. Beside him stands the African American man, wearing a mustache and attired in a cap, a sweater, torn and worn coveralls, and boots. In the center, the boy, attired in shirt, a coat with a belt at the waist, torn and worn shorts, socks, and worn shoes, stands with his hands at his sides. In the right, the young boy, attired in a hat, an oversized coat, socks, and shoes, and the boy, attired in a hat, a collared shirt, a coat, shoes, socks, and shoes, look at the viewer with their hands at their sides., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Three wives. Wife no. 3 is in the house "fussingup". No Sir-ee you is not gwan to took mah picture in deese ol' c'los., 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. 164., 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 Wilson [P.8513.92], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson92.htm

Title: [Two boys in front of the Swann Memorial Fountain in Logan Circle in winter.]
Description: Two boys in snow-covered coats stand on the frozen water of Swann Memorial Fountain looking at the camera. Covered in ice, the three statues in the fountain spurt water in background. Architect Wilson Eyre, Jr. and sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder collaborated to create the fountain monument built at the bequest of Maria Elizabeth Swann, in memory of her late husband, Wilson Cary Swann, M.D. The three sculpted figures represent the three rivers around Philadelphia: the Indian symbolizes the Delaware River, the young woman depicts the Wissahickon, and the mature woman, the Schuylkill River., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Fountain - Park Boulevard. Two citizens who were throwing the bull on the Boulevard. One said he was the best looking kid in his class - the other replied, "G'wan! If you'r [sic] the best-looker in the class I'm Jack Dempsy" [sic] [Dempsey]., 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 120 [P.8513.120], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson120.htm

Title: [University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, entrance gate, 34th and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts gateway surrounded by trees and shrubs. Architect Wilson Eyre, Jr. headed the team of architects who designed the University Museum buildings and surrounding gardens. Construction of the original buildings began in 1899 and ended in 1929., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Gateway. U of P Musium [sic]. 34th & Spruce., 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 158 [P.8513.158], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson158.htm

Title: [University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, entrance gate, 34th and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of small pool and brick gate with ceramic-tile roof that serves as entrance to University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, designed by architect Wilson Eyre. Franklin Field appears beyond gate., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: U. of P. Museum gateway from inside. Most pictures are made from the outside., 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 164 [P.8513.164], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson164.htm

Title: [Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania, 34th and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library of the University of Pennsylvania--an ivy-covered circular building and tower--near 34th and Walnut. Building was designed by architect Frank Furness of the firm Furness, Evans & Co. and built from 1888 to 1891. It is also known by the names University Library and Museum, Furness Building, and Furness Library., 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 228 [P.8513.228], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson228.htm

Title: [University of Pennsylvania, Quadrangle dormitory, 37th Street and Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts steps leading up to colonnade of Quadrangle dormitory building between Woodland Ave. (today's Hamilton Walk), Spruce St., 36th St., and 38th St. on the University of Pennsylvania campus. The Quadrangle was built between 1894-1911 and designed by architects Cope and Stewardson., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: U. P. West end of Dormatories [sic]. 37" and Woodland., 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 131 [P.8513.131], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson131.htm

Title: [Smokestacks of an oil tank below Gray's Ferry Bridge, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts industrial area's smokestacks silhouetted against a cloudy sky., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Below Gray's Ferry Bridge. W. side. Chimneys [of] an oil tank and a winter sky., 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 52 [P.8513.52], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson52.htm

Title: [United Gas Improvement Company's Point Breeze Gas Works from the Passyunk Avenue bridge over the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia]
Description: 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

Title: Logan Square, Park Boulevard, Philadelphia
Description: Scene depicting two African American women walking past the Swann Memorial Fountain at Logan Square in Philadelphia before the installation of Alexander Stirling Calder's sculpted naiad figures in 1924. In the foreground, two women walk side-by-side on the sidewalk in front of the active fountain. Walking on the inside, the woman is attired in a black dress, stockings, and shoes, and the woman walking on the outside closer to the viewer is attired in a patterned dress, black stockings, and shoes., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from content., Duplicate print of P.8513.9., Gift of Mrs. 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 Wilson [P.8513.109], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson109.htm

Title: Bartram gardens, Phila[delphia]
Description: Depicts three well-dressed children, including an African American girl, posed on and around a large stone trough by the wall of a building in Bartram's Garden. In the left, a white boy, attired in a white collared shirt, a striped tie, light-colored shorts, black socks, and shoes, stands facing the viewer with his left hand on the trough. The African American girl, attired in a short-sleeved dress with white trim at the neck, cuffs, and waist, stands behind the trough with her left hand resting on its rim. In the right , a white boy, attired in a short-sleeved, white collared shirt, shorts, and socks, sits on the trough with his legs hanging inside it. Bartram's Garden, the first botanic garden in the country cultivated by botanist and farmer John Bartram in the mid-18th century, was restored by the John Bartram Association in the 1920s after many years of neglect., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access point 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 Wilson [P.8513.115], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson115.htm

Title: Orthodox [Russian] Church and a much sign be-splattered home of a magician next to it at 700 no 5" St
Description: 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

Title: Antique store, Pine Street e. of 13th St
Description: Exterior view depicting the two-and-a-half story antique shop of James Eham, an African American, at 1237 Pine Street. Shop is heavily adorned with antiques and curiosities, including cigar store Native Americans, ship models, and weather vanes. Candlesticks and a menorah are displayed in the first floor windows. Eham, born enslaved in Virginia, settled in Philadelphia in 1876 and soon after became an antiques dealer. By 1927, he owned two antique stores in Philadelphia and one in New York. Eham was also a Baptist minister, as well as worked as a hotel porter later in his life., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: An interesting old negro is the proprietor of this curious shop., Gift of Mrs. 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., Research file about James Eham (1842-1930) available at repository.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.175], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson175.htm

Title: [The Seaman's Home, northwest corner of 2nd and Queen Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of building facade with a group of young men congregated around entrance looking at camera. Another building, perhaps a store, appears in background with groups gathered near it's entrance. Designed by architect Frank Furness, the Seaman's Home was built in 1878 at the northwest corner of Front and Queen Streets. Building began as a church for seamen and became a boys' club in the 1920s. It is also known by the names Church of the Redeemer for Seamen and their Families, Neighborhood Boy's Club, and Church of the Redeemer. Building burned 1974., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: It is not in England despite the decidedly English style of architecture. It is the Seamans Home. 2" and Queen Sts. Note old house in background and tell about the outpouring of young men and boys., Duplicate: P.8513.25: 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 114 [P.8513.114], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson114.htm

Title: [Detail of Bartram house window, Philadelphia]
Description: Close up view of window and architectural stone work surrounding it. Carved in plaque above window: It is God alone almyty Lord, The Holy One by me ador'd, John Bartram 1770. Botanist and farmer John Bartram built his home in 1730-1731 with a 1770 addition and began cultivation of America's first botanical garden. After many years of neglect the house was restored in the 1920s by the John Bartram Association., Manuscript note by photographer on verso: Bartram Gardens Phila., 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.8513.166], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson166.htm

Title: [Episcopal Church of St James the Less. Grounds entrance showing Nicetown Lane.]
Description: Depicts curved lane bordered by two stone walls. A tree grows behind one wall and shades the lane. Ivy-covered church stands behind the other stone wall on which hangs a sign that reads: Church of St. James The Less. All seats free. Church was built from 1846 to 1850 and designed by architect George Gordon Place., Built 1846-1850. Designed by English architect G.G. Place., 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 155 [P.8513.155], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson155.htm

Title: Old graveyard. N.S. Spruce bet 8th & 9th
Description: View showing the front gate, adorned with a stone marker, of the Jewish Philadelphia cemetery Mikveh Israel. A brick wall surrounds the entrance with a wrought iron gate, which leads to a path through the cemetery. In the left, two men, including an African American, sit with their legs crossed on crates near the gate. Trees flank the gate, and more trees are visible beyond on the grounds. Established as a private burial ground in 1738 by Jewish businessman Nathan Levy, the cemetery was deeded to the Mikveh Israel congregation in 1774., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Gift of Mrs. Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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.8513.132], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson132.htm

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