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"Penny Lunch Children"
"Penny Lunch Children." From Starr Garden brochure. Group of Children and two adult women in front of a wall.
"Saint Mary Street"
This photo was taken looking up St. Mary Street. The caption reads, "The large tenement on the left is the one in charge of a Settlement Resident. The building beyond, with belfry, is the Stuart Memorial (College Settlement) Hall. Beyond the Hall,…
"The housewives bargaining with the push cart man..."
Two women are bargaining with the neighborhood household ware vendor along the street.
"Vicarious Motherhood"
Page contains photo and short narrative about the settlement's young female children --their hardships, their labor at home to help their mothers. Black and white photo depicts about ten girls standing in "ring around the rosey" formation on back…
"We play in a crack on Christian Street, 435 play yard"
Small children playing in small playground in vacant lot between two three-story buildings.
"Where old Europe meets new America"
Street market scene with immigrant women sitting next to baskets of vegetables on sidewalk and man in foreground
“Babies’ Rest Yard”
Children in "Babies' Rest Yard," with swinging cribs and baby carriages at the College Settlement in South Philadelphia.
“Making Hats, J.B. Stetson Company”
A picture of a Triptych print of the interior of the Stetson hat factory. It shows employees making hats in three consecutive frames.
“not in Florence, Genoa or Naples”
Jewish man standing and Irish woman seated on a staircase, between Water and Front Streets, north of Market Street, Philadelphia, PA
“Roof-Garden at the Philadelphia Settlement”
The children pictured here on the roof garden were playing with toys. The girls were playing with blocks, while a boy used a rocking horse. The boys in the background posed with brooms.