[Nurses] [Photo Album]. This photo album which dates back to the 1920s depicts a crew of young women both studying and working as nurses in Chester, Pennsylvania. Archive of 40 silver gelatin photographs ranging in size from large format photos of 5" x 8" to 2.75" x 3.75". Album is.....
[New Deal][Labor] Civilian Conservation Corps photo archive, circa 1930s, documenting Black, white, and racially integrated labor units under the New Deal, with particular relevance to African American labor history, federal relief policy, and the administration of public works programs. These images provide direct visual evidence of how the CCC, one.....
Unidentified police photographers, mugshot photograph archive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1950s to 1960s, documenting law enforcement identification practices applied to African American men in an urban mid-twentieth-century context. The material documents criminal identification systems through standardized booking photography, revealing how individuals were processed, recorded, and categorized by police authorities, and providing.....
African American supper club photograph archive documents Black social life, leisure culture, and community formation in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia during the 1940s and 1950s, when segregation and racial exclusion shaped access to public space across the United States. Created during and after World War II and into the Korean War.....
[African American] Archive of 63 vernacular photos of African American women c. 1950s-90s. Images are in color and black and white with measurements ranging from 5" x 7" to 2" x 2" in. One color photo shows 4 generations of Black women posed on stairs outside a large concrete building.....
African American family and social life photo archive showing domestic gatherings, automobile pride, stylish dress, and intergenerational leisure from the mid-twentieth century through the 1960s. Cars recur as central possessions and social markers, with men and women posing beside sedans, coupes, and older touring cars during a period when automobile.....
Milk delivery photo archive documenting neighborhood dairy distribution through branded route trucks, uniformed drivers, insulated cargo compartments, route numbers, and product claims printed directly on delivery vehicles, circa 1920s-1940s. Milk delivery emerged after farm-based household provisioning and before supermarket consolidation transformed food purchasing into a centralized retail experience centered on.....
A Manual of Clinical Laboratory Methods by William Pepper, MD and Fred H. Klaer, MD. Circa 1949 Hardcover in red cloth and black lettering. Title on cover is Clinical Pathology. Interior subtitle states: For the Use of Third and Fourth Year Students of the Medical Department of the University of.....
Appalachian Coal Mining Operations; Photo Archive of Five Original Gelatin Silver Photographs , ca. 1910s–1920s. Five gelatin silver prints, measuring betweenand 8" x 9" to 5" x 7" Striking vernacular archive documenting early 20th-century industrial coal mining practices through four large-format photographs capturing both above- and below-ground operations. One image.....
[Labor][Union Orgazning] Bell System telephone workers on strike in Philadelphia press photo archive, November 1950, recording the Communications Workers of America's fight for better wages and working conditions in the postwar wave of American labor conflict that followed WWII wage controls. Captions identify the strike as part of a national.....
[African American] Black Models in Commercial Print: Philadelphia Studio Fashion Photoshoot 1930s-1940s Archive of 4 Original Vintage Photographs. Each black and white silver gelatin photograph measures 3.5" x 4.5". All photographs were captured at Condax Studio in Philadelphia. Condax Studios was associated with the Models' Guild of Philadelphia, which served.....
[Photography] [African American] Black photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris captures a vernacular photograph at a lunch counter within Pittsburgh’s Hill District—an epicenter of Black cultural and civic life in the mid-20th century. Circa 1949. Black and white silver gelatin print measuring 10" x 8". This warm and candid image shows a......
Black women’s labor photo archive depicting agricultural work, nursing, hospital training, clerical employment, service labor, and street protest from the turn of the century to 1960. Black women’s labor photo archive depicting the long movement of Black women into paid work beyond domestic service and agricultural labor, from cane-processing and.....
Industrial butcher shop and slaughterhouse photo archive depicting meatpacking labor during the rapid expansion of refrigerated food distribution in the early twentieth century, when urban slaughterhouses and cold storage facilities transformed American food consumption. After the introduction of refrigerated rail transport in the late nineteenth century, cities such as Philadelphia.....
Interwar industrial machinery archive documenting Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. compressors, pneumatic power apparatus, and shop-floor testing equipment during the 1920s and 1930s, when compressed air drove riveting, drilling, mining, road building, automotive work, and heavy manufacturing. Chicago Pneumatic was incorporated in 1901 and built its reputation around pneumatic hammers, air.....
[African American][New Deal][Labor] Black Civilian Conservation Corps member photograph archives, showing an all-Black CCC unit in Pennsylvania, ca. 1937. These photographs document the experiences of Black participants in the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the central employment and public works initiatives created under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Established.....
Unidentified photographers, female tennis player photograph archive, ca. 1880s–1910s, documents women’s participation in organized sport and recreational culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, supporting research into gender roles, physical activity, and educational environments for women in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. The group captures tennis as one.....
World War II Hero and 34th U.S. President. There is a tradition that the President "give" gifts at his Birthday Party. Very scarce Eisenhower PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHDAY GIFT. This gift is a Presidential Commemorative Plate, Dated October 1953, About 10 1/2" diameter, an attractive and high quality china plate with gold.....
World War II Hero and 34th U.S. President. There is a tradition that the President "give" gifts at his Birthday Party. Very scarce Eisenhower PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHDAY GIFT. This gift is a Presidential Commemorative Plate, Dated October 1953, About 10 1/2" diameter, an attractive and high quality china plate with gold.....
Women’s participation in early aviation developed despite formidable social, economic, and institutional barriers that restricted female access to flight training and aviation careers during the first half of the twentieth century. Yet a small number of pioneering aviators challenged these limits, establishing flying clubs, participating in competitions, and gaining international.....
Photographs and printed ephemera documenting Prince Hall–affiliated fraternal organizations in the 1950s establish a record of African American civic, ritual, and social life during segregation, when Black institutions operated as central structures for leadership, mutual aid, and public identity. The archive identifies members of the Prince Hall Shriners and the.....
[African American] [Fraternal Organization] Striking full-length studio portrait of a Black man in full ceremonial regalia of the Knights of Columbus, photographed by Penn Park Studio at 25–27 W. College Ave., York, Pennsylvania, “Near the York High School.” The verso features an AZO stamp box with upward-pointing triangles, dating the.....
Playbill from American folk opera "Porgy and Bess" composed by George Gershwin. Philadelphia, 1936. Measures 6 x 9 inches. 4 pages. Includes full production credits, cast list, scene synopsis and list of musical numbers. From the post-Broadway tour stop at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia. The play featured a cast.....
Civil War related Stereoview photograph of an oil painting. Stereoview card bearing a double 7" x 4", sepia toned photograph of wounded soldiers in trenches, "From the Chicago Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg. 1st headquarters of Gen. Geo. G Mead July 2nd". Part of a series of stereoviews representing.....
Social and athletic life of partially identified Black male college students at one of the oldest historically black universities, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1854 in Pennsylvania, Lincoln University became an important center for Black intellectual development, producing generations of educators, clergy, political leaders, and professionals during the era of.....
