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Bread St. bel. Arch St

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Depicts a Jewish family's brick house north of Arch Street in Philadelphia. Female family members peer out of the first floor windows as a man sweeps near the doorway. African American children in heavy clothing huddle under the windows.; Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso.; Photographer's manuscript note on verso: (without wisp of smoke). Mortor [sic] was mixed in those days in a huge mortor [sic] box. The lime was slacked by shoveling it into the box, permitting water to flow into the box and keeping the mass in constant motion with a hoe, thereby preventing the lime from being burned or killed, when properly slacked, it was run off into a basin of sand, where it was mixed with the sand and made ready for use.; Forms part of: George Mark Wilson Photograph Collection.

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