Photographs 1923-1941 (Inclusive Dates).

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Photographs 1923-1941 (Inclusive Dates).

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The collection features Cholerton's recreational interests in the photography of Philadelphia bridges, buildings, statues, and scenes from the period 1923-1941. Subjects photographed include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, the Sesquicentennial International Exposition of 1926, Manayunk section of Philadelphia, and the Valley Green section of Fairmount Park.

.5 Linear Foot b/w photographs and negatives mostly 5 x 4 inch images and some larger sizes.

Temple University Libraries, Paley Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8086739

Temple University Libraries, Paley Library

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Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (1926 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

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In 1921, the Pennsylvania Museum of Art (later renamed the Philadelphia Museum of Art) held a special loan exhibition of colonial silver, mostly American pieces, with some European ones. A catalog of the exhibit was published as Bulletin number 68 in June 1921. There are no clues as to who assembled this special volume. From the description of Bulletin - Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 261233369 Art museum; Philadelphia, Pen...

John Cholerton.

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John Cholerton was a photographer for the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1917-1944. Cholerton took more that 100,000 pictures of events, scenes, and equipment on the Reading system and the Pennsylvania Reading seashorelines. From the description of Photographs 1923-1941 (Inclusive Dates). (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 719446302 ...