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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: [Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St George, formerly St. Andrews Church, 250-256 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts church facade, including six-columned portico and pediment. Building was built from 1822 to 1823 and designed by architect John Haviland., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 8 ab Spruce. Said to be the most excellent example of Greek architecture in Phila., Now a Greek church, formerly an Episcopal Church [St Andrews]., 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 162 [P.8513.162], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson162.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

Title: [Residence of John C. Bell, 22nd and Locust Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of doorway and five surrounding first- and second-story windows of brick dwelling belonging to John C. Bell, district attorney of Philadelphia. Columns and semicircular decorated window frame doorway. After designs by architect Horace Trumbauer, the residence was built in 1905., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A splendid type of colonial doorway. Marble (Italian) columns, steps and headpieces. Mahogony [sic] door., 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 136 [P.8513.136], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson136.htm

Title: Public golf course-- beyond 69 St. terminal of El
Description: View of partially frozen creek bordered by snow-covered banks and trees., Duplicate: P.8513.1: same neg., Title from manuscript on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: See covered snow and a half frozen over creek., 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 71 [P.8513.71], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson71.htm

Title: Rittenhouse Sq
Description: View of people sitting and standing around pool of water in Rittenhouse Square. People walk and another rides a bicycle in background. Holy Trinity Church visible beyond trees in background., Title from 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 93 [P.8513.93], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson93.htm

Title: [First Unitarian Church, 2121-2125 Chestnut Street, at northwest corner Van Pelt Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts part of facade and side of church which was built 1885-1886 and designed by Furness, Evans & Co. Automobile parked in 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 227a [P.8513.227a], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson227a.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: Holy Trinity Church at sunset (winter)
Description: Depicts silhouette of church and nearby trees against winter sky. Designed by architect John Notman, the church was built from 1856 to 1859., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Duplicate: P.8513.29: 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 75 [P.8513.75], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson75.htm

Title: [Probably Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, later Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Church at 28th and Snyder Sts., Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts the rear of a church with cupolas and spires, probably the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, later Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Church at 2101 S 28th Street (28th and Snyder Sts.). Church reflects into a large puddle in foreground of picture. Holy Virgin parish was formed by mainly Carpatho-Russian members of the community in 1913. In 1973 "rib type" cupolas replaced the copper cupolas., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's manuscript note, probably misidentifying church location, on verso: Not in Poland. A Polish church at 28th and Wharton Sts. The lagoon is nothing but a mud puddle, formed by the drainage of rain from the street leval [sic] into this depression. The street at this point is from 4' to 5' above the bottom of what appears to be a charming lake. (Note: There is a large Polish settlement in the neighborhood, many of the men working in the nearby oil works at Point Breeze)., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.20: 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 215 [P.8513.215], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson215.htm

Title: [Probably Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, later Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Church at 28th and Snyder Sts., Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts the rear of a church with cupolas and spires, probably the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, later Assumption of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Church at 2101 S 28th Street (28th and Snyder Sts.). Church reflects into a large puddle in foreground of picture. Holy Virgin parish was formed by mainly Carpatho-Russian members of the community in 1913. In 1973 "rib type" cupolas replaced the copper cupolas., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's manuscript note, probably misidentifying church location, on verso of duplicate: Not in Poland. A Polish church at 28th and Wharton Sts. The lagoon is nothing but a mud puddle, formed by the dranage [sic] of rain from the street leval [sic] into this depression. The street at this point is from 4' to 5' above the bottom of what appears to be a charming lake. (Note - There is a large Polish settlement in the neighborhood, many of the men working in the nearby oil works at Point Breeze., Duplicate: P.8513.215: 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 20 [P.8513.20], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson215.htm

Title: [St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, Kingsessing, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of ivy-covered facade of church which was designed by architect Thomas Webb Richards and built from 1762 to 1763 as a Swedish Lutheran church. It became an Episcopal church in 1810., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 58th [sic] and Woodland Ave. 18 century English., 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 173 [P.8513.173], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson173.htm

Title: [Keneseth Israel Temple, 1717 North Broad Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View shows facade of synagogue with two automobiles parked outside., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Not Cario [sic]. Venetian Campanile. E side Broad ab Columbia Ave., Similar view to P.8513.226., 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 128 [P.8513.128], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson128.htm

Title: [Keneseth Israel Temple, 1717 North Broad Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View of facade of synagogue with automobiles parked outside and people walking past., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: It could be mistaken for Bagdad [sic] or Cairo, but it is the Jewish Synagogue at Broad and Columbia Ave. (Get name of this Synagogue, name of Rabbi, heighth of tower, dome, seating capacity)., Similar view to P.8513.128., 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 226 [P.8513.226], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson226.htm

Title: [First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut Street at northwest corner Van Pelt Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts entrance to First Unitarian Church, which was built 1885-1886 and designed by Furness, Evans & Co., architects., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Not an entrance to an old world mortuary. Doorway of Unitarian Church, Van Pelt and Chestnut Sts. Gilpin the architect probibily [sic] endeavored to evolve something unsightly. He succeeded. Early medieval., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Similar view to P.8513.227a., 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 163 [P.8513.163], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson163.htm

Title: Unitarian Church, Van Pelt and Chestnut Sts
Description: Exterior view of side of First Unitarian Church at 2121 Chestnut St. Two men sit on church steps looking at camera. Designed by architect Frank Furness, the church was built in 1895-96, and underwent several subsequent alterations through 1955., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: a grotesque architectural hodge-poge [sic], chiefly noteworthy for its grotesqueness, lack of artistic appeal, curve and balance., 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 147 [P.8513.147], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson147.htm

Title: House 18[th] and Spruce Sts
Description: Exterior view showing the residence of Philadelphia cotton merchant George McFadden and former residence of Mrs. Lavinia Thomson (widow of PRR Chief Engineer J. Edgar Thomson) at the northeast corner of Eighteenth and Spruce streets. A peddler with his pushcart stands in front of the house., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Graceful, homelike and cheerful. Reminiscent of a southern style. (make another in the late spring)., 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.8513.229], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson229.htm

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