File:1880's-LanganHotel.JPG
This picture was scanned from the personal archives of Sylvia Louise Langan. She provided the following comments to go along with the photo:
"Sylvia's [ed. probably Nina's] great grandfather emigrated from Macclesfield, England to Philadelphia. His family had been part of the Irish out-migration from Ireland to England, where the Catholics were treated less nastily. This ancestor was an attic weaver, rather than a textile factory operative. Evidently he could run well, and someone sponsored his one-way passage to Philadelphia to run in a race. He won that race, but his sponsor didn't come forth with the fare home... I guess he ran this hotel/boarding house to scrabble together a living. Are the tiny figures in the doorway him & his wife? Don't know. What's his name? Not sure. It might have been Montgomery. (My father is Thomas Montgomery Langan, and I think his father was Montgomery Thomas Langan)."
Note also the figure leaning from upstairs window, proprietorially over the sign.
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