Temple Emmanuel

Pauline Tidmore

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This black and white photograph represents a domestic building on an empty street. Powerlines cross above the building, a street corner can be seen in the distance, and a fence with a door can be see in the foreground to its right.
This image is created with black ink on paper. A street runs through the center of the composition, rising into a viaduct in the middle ground. On the street are automobiles and figures. At the left of the street is a building in the foreground with a power line standing in front of it. A figure sits in front of the building near the base of the power pole. At the right of the street are power lines, a rail car, and Sloss Furnaces (including a casting ched, a blast furnace, and a series of smokestacks and cooling towers). The sky in the image is clouded with smog.
Night scene of black man bound to stake by chains, burned alive; to right, man stokes fire with pole; crowd of white onlookers surround the fire.
From Camera Work, 25:7 (January 1909)