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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: Cigar Indian at McKernan's Store. S. W. cor. 16th & Ritner Sts
Description: Side view of a life-size carving of an Indian wearing a headdress and standing on a box advertising "Coca Cola in bottles". This, in turn, has a base under it advertising Lipschutz's 44 cigars. The figure stands in front of the door of the corner store which also advertises school supplies and Supplee Ice Cream. Thos. A. McKernan is the proprietor. At curbside is parked a massive truck delivering Supplee Ice Cream. Small row homes are visible across the street., Inscribed in negative: 3845., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.155]

Title: Cigar Indian chief. S.E. cor. 4th & Race [sic]. Note the feather headdress. Most of the cigar indians were squaws
Description: Depicts a Cigar Indian chief standing outside of the Central Hat Cleaning Company at 1032 West Girard Avenue. Written on the base of the carved figure are the words "Pocket Billiards". Bottled beverages sit nearby in crates outside of the shop. "Central Hal Cleaning Company, Gents Hats Remodeled and Blocked In Any Style," is visible across the front window, along with various hats on display., Inscribed in negative: 3714., Title from negative sleeve., Incorrectly identified as the Cigar Indian chief near the southeast corner of Fourth and Race Streets., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.145]

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: Junk shop at 13th & Pine
Description: View from the southwest depicting the exterior of the 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, a rooster weather vane, and a ship's helm. Posters, including a playbill for a production of "Our Colored Boys Over There" at the African American playhouse, the Royal Theater (opened in 1920), cover an adjacent building. Other neighboring buildings are visible. 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., Inscribed on negative: 3700., Title from negative sleeve., Date inferred from content., Modern reference print available., Original negative housed in freezer., Purchase 1988., 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: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives-Hand [P.9259.141]

Title: Junk shop at 13th & Pine
Description: View from the southwest depicting the exterior of the 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, a rooster weather vane, and a ship's helm. Posters, including a playbill for a production of "Our Colored Boys Over There" at the African American playhouse, the Royal Theater (opened in 1920), cover an adjacent building. Other neighboring buildings are visible. 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., Inscribed on negative: 3700., Title from negative sleeve., Date inferred from content., Modern reference print available., Original negative housed in freezer., Purchase 1988., 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: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives-Hand [P.9259.141]

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