November 2003
Dr. Harry Silcox, who served on the AKMP Board of Trustees for several years, has presented the museum with an archive of photographs of Bridesburg and Northeast Philadelphia. The collection is made up of over 300 glass-plate negatives of photographs taken by William and Charles Sliker between 1905 and 1930. Most of the photographs in the collection were commissioned by businesses in the area for postcards but many were taken by Charles Sliker with his Kodak box camera as he traveled around the area. The Sliker/Silcox collection documents a period when Northeast Philadelphia was changing from a collection of farming villages into a residential and industrial area. Pictured here is the children's playground in Tacony taken by Charles Sliker around 1910.
