South China Restaurant [graphic].
Title
South China Restaurant
Description
Clipping from a serial advertising the South China Restaurant located at 913 Race Street, Philadelphia and containing typography and pictorial elements. Includes Chinese characters and text promoting lunch and dinner at the restaurant. A black border surrounds the text., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on recto: Authentic Delicious Oriental Dishes, Luncheon 35¢ Dinner 50¢, Facilities for Parties; Modern and Pleasant. Phone--Mar. 9140., Gift of Linda Kimiko August.
Date
[ca. 1939]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ephemera - advertisements - South [P.2023.27.5]
Philadelphia public schools photograph collection
Title
Philadelphia public schools photograph collection
Description
Contains photographs and a newspaper clipping showing interior and exterior views of identified and unidentified Philadelphia public schools and school administration buildings, many from construction funded by the Public Works Administration. Includes photographs depicting sculpted architectural ornaments and pencil sketches of proposed sculptures to be installed at the schools. Interior views show an auto shop; classrooms, gymnasiums, cafeterias, and auditoriums. Also contains five architectural drawings drawn by Philadelphia architect Emil C. Schmidt. Majority of collection lacks photographer's imprint except three views photographed by Philadelphia photographers Samuel H. Oxman and Philip B. Wallace., Views show John Bartram Public High School, 67th Street and Elmwood Avenue; Edward Bok Vocation High School, 8th and Mifflin Streets; Joseph H. Brown Public School, Frankford and Stanwood avenues; Joseph W. Catherine Public School, 66th Street and Chester Avenue; Central High School, Ogontz and Olney Avenues; Dobbins High School, 22nd Street and Lehigh Avenue; Robert Fulton Public School, Haines and Germantown Avenues; Girls' High School, Broad and Olney Streets; Delaplaine McDaniel Public School, 22nd and Moore Streets; Willis and Elizabeth Martin Orthopedic School, 22nd and Brown Streets; Gen. George C. Meade School, 18th and Oxford Streets; Thomas Mifflin School, Conrad and Mifflin Avenue; North East High School, 8th Street and Lehigh Avenue; Philadelphia Board of Education Administration Building, Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 21st Street; William Rowen Public School, 19th and Haines Streets; Southwark Public School, 9th and Mifflin Streets; Stetson Jr. High School, Broad Street and Allegheny Avenue; and Roberts Vaux Public School, 24th and Master Streets. Views of the Willis and Elizabeth Martin Orthopedic School show physically handicapped children, including African Americans, in a music and woodwork class, at recess, and entering a school bus. Dobbins High School views depict decorative works utilized in the school building. Majority of interior views depict interiors at unidentified public schools, including a view of an auto shop class with an African American student. Images of sculpted works include several allegorical figures symbolizing education and industry. Collection also includes a photograph of an architectural drawing of an unexecuted design for the Henry Platt School., Title supplied by cataloger., Thirty-two of images contain negative numbers inscribed in the negative., Twenty-four of images contain dates inscribed in the negative., Majority of images accompanied by manuscript note providing name of school., Schmidt worked for the Philadelphia Board of Public Education and was the chief designer of the Central High School building., Gift of Mrs. Arthur Kushlan, 1980., 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.
Date
[ca. 1930-1938]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Education [P.8565-P.8603; P.8886]
Europe 1931 – March – April
Title
Europe 1931 – March – April
Description
Scrapbook of souvenirs, keepsakes, clipped illustrations, and manuscript documenting the European travels of Janet Morris during the spring of 1931. Morris’s travels included attending a wedding in Switzerland. Contents include personal letters received on the ship S.S. Bremen, as well as keepsakes like the ship’s log; a wedding souvenir “The Happiness of Your Home by E. Etter, Rohrschach published by The Swiss Society of Public Utility and Public Utility Society of Swiss Women”; numerous programs for musical concerts and theater performances in Germany, Italy, and France (e.g. Berner Stadttheater, Don Kosaken Chor, Societa’ Veneziana Concerti Sinfonici); mementoes from and anecdotes about the Munich Hotel and the Glyptotek (Munich); French chocolate wrappers illustrated with flowers native to Southern France ; business cards for a Parisian seamstress and hairstylist; clothing tag for the Paris department store Aux Galerie Lafayette (i.e. Galeries Lafayette); and pressed flowers., Title from manuscript note on cover., Cover illustrated with clipped color-printed illustration from program cover for the “Galas R. Karsenty” theater company. Shows an outdoor, nighttime scene where a man kisses the hand of a woman in masquerade., Janet Morris, later Butler, was the daughter of amateur photographer and philanthropist Marriott C. Morris. She attended Germantown Friends' School and Connecticut College. She married Harvey Butler in Nevada in 1961. She lived in Claremont, Ca. at the time of her death.
Creator
Morris, Janet, 1907-2010, compiler
Date
1931
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2016.37.1]