Perla A. Matthews Photograph Album

Matthews, Perla Anna Killiam, 1879-1978
Edgar Allan Poe School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Clark, Thomas & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
School gardens — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — History
Gardening — Study and teaching — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — History
School gardens — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — Pictorial works

The Perla A. Matthews Photograph Album comprises 62 photographic prints chiefly documenting the activities of the Edgar Allan Poe School Garden. Images include views of the Edgar Allan Poe School (erected between 1913 and 1914) located at 21st and Ritner Streets, the establishment of the school garden and structures at 22nd and Ritner on grounds on which stands the Clark, Thomas, and Co. Furniture Factory, the teachers and students at work, harvest photographs, and students and teachers on excursions, for example, what appears to be a student trip to the Fairmount Water Works. Additional photographs may be of other as yet unidentified Philadelphia school and home gardens

1900-1921

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PC SB51 M44

Perla A. Matthews photographs (PC SB51 M44)

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Forms part of the Philadelphia Garden Photographs, 1900-1940

Gift; Mrs. John H. Warren, Jr. ; [not before 1978]

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This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. In addition, the Philadelphia Garden Photographs, 1900-1940 project is supported through a grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's Historical Archives and Records Care Grant, a program funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Leaf 1, Image 1. Untitled [View of stone building, arched doorway] (9 x 11 cm.) -- 2. Leaf 1, Image 2. Untitled [School garden: Children and adult tending beds] (11 x 8.5 cm.) -- Leaf 2, Image 1. Untitled [School garden: Girl standing with hollyhocks] (7.5 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 2, Image 2. Untitled [School garden: Two women, industrial buiding in background] (11.5 x 8.5 cm.) -- Leaf 3, Image 1. Untitled [School garden: Two girls and baby, rowhouses in background] (11 x 8 cm.) -- Leaf 3, Image 2. Untitled [School garden: Group of children, rowhouses in background] (8.5 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 4, Image 1. Untitled [School garden. Group of children, some holding hoes, rowhouses in background] (11 x 8.5 cm.) -- Leaf 4, Image 2. Untitled [School garden. Children, some holding hoes, rowhouses in background] (10.5 x 8 cm.) -- Leaf 5, Image 1. Untitled [School garden: Group of children, some holding hoes, rowhouses in background] (11 x 8 cm.) -- Leaf 5, Image 2.Untitled [School garden: Group of children, some holding hoes, rowhouses in background (10.5 x 8 cm.) -- Leaf 6, Image 1. Untitled [School garden: Boys and girls, seated and standing, with teacher] (7 x 8 cm.) -- Leaf 6, Image 2. Untitled [School garden: Boys, seated and standing, corn in background] (8 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 6A, Leaf 2 Untitled [School garden: Boys, seated and standing, corn in background] Verso (8 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 7, Image 1. Untitled [Two standing girls posed before a street lamp] (8 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 7, Image 2. Untitled [School garden: Standing woman working with the corn] (8 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 8, Image 1. Untitled [Man standing between beds, industrial building in background] (11 x 8 cm.) -- Leaf 8, Image 2. Untitled [Garden and brick building] (8 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 9, Image 1. Untitled [School garden: Boy and girl with garden spades preparing rows, standing teacher, boys and girls observing, rowhouses in background] (8.5 x 10.5 cm.) -- Leaf 9, Image 2. Untitled [School garden: Three standing boys with hoes, brick and stone building in background] (11 x 8 cm.) -- Leaf 10, Image 1. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: View from above of boys and girls working on the plots, industrial buildings beyond] (8.5 x 11 cm.) --Leaf 10, Image 2. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Teacher and students preparing the beds, garden shed and industrial buildings beyond] (11 x 8.5 cm.) -- Leaf 11, Image 1 .Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Class instruction, three men, teacher and students, school building and rowhouses in background] (8.5 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 11, Image 2. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: View from above of man pushing a baby carriage, garden plots, tool shed, and industrial buildings beyond] (8.5 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 12, Image 1. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: View from above of students working garden plots, tool shed, garden shed, and industrial building in background] (11 x 8.5 cm.) -- Leaf 12, Image 2. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: View from above of cultivated plots, tool shed, garden shed (under construction), and industrial buildings in background (8.5 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 13, Image 1. Untitled [Edgar Allan School Garden: garden plots, tool shed, garden shed, fence in foreground, industrial buildings in background] (8.5 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 13, Image 2. Untitled [Possibly Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Waste ground, wire fencing in foreground, lumber and industrial building in background] (11.5 x 8.5 cm.) -- Leaf 14, Image 1. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Garden plots, tool shed, garden shed, industrial buildings in background] (9 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 14, Image 2. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Teacher, school children, garden plot, school and rowhouses in background] (8.5 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 15, Image 1. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Teachers, school children, garden plot, school and rowhouses in background] (8.5 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 15, Image 2. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Teachers, school children (several children using hoes), garden plot, school, industrial building, and rowhouses in background] (8.5 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 16, Image 1. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Standing man with hoe against corn and vegetable plot, industrial building in background] (11 x 9 cm.) -- Leaf 16, Image 2. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Adults and children tending to garden plots, tool shed, garden shed, industrial buildings in background] (8.5 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 17, Image 1. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: School garden class (some children holding hoes, others with harvest baskets) at the garden shed, industrial buildings in background] (9 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 17, Image 2. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: School garden class, garden shed and industrial buildings in background] (8.5 x 8.5 cm.) -- Leaf 18, Image 1.Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Children in the garden shed] (7 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 18, Image 2.Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Boys and girls gathered at the sun dial, garden plots, school and rowhouses in background] (7 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 19, Image 1. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Seated child and standing boy at the garden shed] (8.5 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 19, Image 2. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: School garden class (two children holding multiple harvest baskets) at the garden shed] (8.5 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 20, Image 1. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Boy holding harvest basket at the garden shed] (11.5 x 9 cm.) -- Leaf 20, Image 2. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Interior of the garden shed] (8.5 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 21, Image 1. Untitled [School garden, multiple children and castor bean plant, school building and rowhouses in background] (8.5 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 21, Image 2. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Two teachers at the garden shed] (11.5 x 8.5 cm.) -- Leaf 22, Image 1. Untitled [School garden class and castor bean plant, school building and rowhouses in background] (8.5 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 22, Image 2. Untitled [Teacher and castor bean plant, school in background] (11.5 x 8.5 cm.) -- Leaf 23, Image 1. Untitled [Woman tending corn in garden plot, boy seated in background] (9 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 23, Image 2. Untitled [Teachers and children climbing rocks] (9 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 24, Image 1. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Two girls with hoes tending garden plots, fence and lumber pile in background] (7 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 24, Image 2. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Teacher with hoe tending garden plot, industrial building in background] (7 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 25, Image 1. Untitled [Fairmount Water Works: Teacher and children seated before ornamental pool] (8 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 25, Image 2. Untitled [School trip: Teacher and students before a stone wall] (9 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 26, Image 1. Untitled [Girl and boy flank a table with harvest display, rowhouses in background] (8.5 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 26, Image 2. Untitled [Edgar Allan School Garden: Teacher at the sun dial, garden plots and industrial building in background] (11 x 7 cm.) -- Leaf 27, Image 1. Untitled [Group of students displaying school garden harvest, rowhouses in background] (9 x 11 cm.) -- Leaf 27, Image 2. Untitled [Group of students seated before stone wall] (7 x 11.5 cm.) -- Leaf 28. Image 1. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Group of students display harvest, fence and industrial structure in background] (11 x 7 cm.) -- Leaf 28, Image 1A. Untitled [Edgar Allan Poe School Garden: Group of students display harvest, fence and industrial structure in background] (11 x 7 cm.) -- Leaf 28, Image 2. Untitled [Fairmount Water Works: School children posed before balustrade] (8 x 12 cm.) -- Leaf 29, Image 1. Untitled [Students and teachers] (8.5 x 8 cm.) 1913 (Verso) -- Leaf 29, Image 2. Untitled [Group of children, rowhouses in background] (8 x 10.5 cm.) -- Leaf 30, Image 1. Untitled [Group of children (some hold nosegays) pose before the garden shed] (8.5 x 11 cm.) 1912 (Verso) -- Leaf 30, Image 2. Untitled [Teacher with garden rake, children concealed in corn, building in background] (11.5 x 7 cm.) -- Leaf 31, Image 1. Untitled [Teachers and students (individual students hold cultivators, hoes, rakes and produce), garden plots in foreground, garden sign [Schedule for Summer] in background] (9 x 14 cm.) Triangle (Verso) Sign transcription: Schedule for Summer. War(?) Garden -- No. 2. -- Leaf 31, Image 2. Untitled [Girl with hoe tends to garden plot, basket filled with produce in foreground, industrial building in background] (11.5 x 7 cm.)