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
View of rear of row houses, including hanging wash, outbuildings, trees., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 10 and Ellsworth Sts. Looking into our neighbors [sic] back yards. Italian and Syrian settlement. (Block out skyline in regular way. Fill in a few clouds)., 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 227 [P.8513.227], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson227.htm