Starr Garden Pool
Title
Starr Garden Pool
Subject
recreation; swimming; Philadelphia City Parks
Description
Children playing in a pool a Starr Garden at 617 Rodman Street. Site of the College Settlement and the W. E. B. DuBois House, Starr Garden offered social services and opportunities to the poor, immigrants, and African Americans. These services included a music school, classes, and boys and girls clubs. W. E. B. DuBois lived here from 1896-97 while he researched his groundbreaking study, The Philadelphia Negro. In the early 1900s, right before the Great Migration, Philadelphia’s College Settlement excluded African Americans from their social service programs.
Creator
PH. B. Wallace
Source
Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries
Publisher
WCU, HIS 601/HON 451 Great Migration and Digital Storytelling, Spring 2016
Date
June 1925
Contributor
Janneken Smucker
Rights
Courtesy of Temple University Libraries
Format
JPG
Type
Still Image
Original Format
Photograph
Files
Citation
PH. B. Wallace, “Starr Garden Pool,” Goin' North, accessed October 5, 2024, http://goinnorth.org/items/show/978.