Jump to navigation
Main menu
LCP Home
Search
Search Library Catalog
Search Digital Collections
How to Search the Collections
Access Terms Used in Our Catalogs
Finding Aids
Explore
Browse Collections
LCP News
Social Media
Exhibitions
Podcast
Academic Programs
Overview
Fellowships
Innovation Award
Biennial First Book Award
Seminars
Program in African American History
Program in Early American Economy and Society
The Davida T. Deutsch Program in Women’s History
Visual Culture Program
Research
Overview
Subject Guides
Finding Aids
Online Exhibitions
Bookbinding Research
Using the Library
Overview
Hours, Access, & Location
Rights & Reproductions
How to Search Collections
Potentially Harmful Materials and Descriptions Statement
Online Resources
Events
Upcoming Events
Seminars
LCP News
LCP Press Resources
Projects
Beyond Glass Cases
Library Company Papers Project
Hearing Voices
Imperfect History
Fireside Chats
Support the Library
Overview
Donate Online!
Join & Renew Membership Online
Support: Shareholding
Lecture in Honor of John C. Van Horne
Membership Benefits
Planned Giving
Annual Dinner
Junto
About LCP
Annual Reports
Staff
Board of Trustees
Employment
Affiliations
LCP Blog
Press Resources
LCP Privacy Policy
Overview and History
LCP FAQ Sheet
Group portrait of two girls sitting in wooden rowboat, Philadelphia. [graphic].
You are here
Browse Collections
›
John Frank Keith Photograph Collection
Back to top
Details
Creator
Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title
Group portrait of two girls sitting in wooden rowboat, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1913
Date
ca. 1913
Physical Description
1 photographic print : gelatin silver on postcard mount ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description
Group portrait depicting two girls, one in a sailor dress and holding a paddle, the other with a bow in her hair, sitting in a rowboat near the shore.
Notes
Cyko postcard.
See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233.
Biographical / historical note
Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Subject
Girls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rowboats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Genre
Gelatin silver prints -- 1910-1920.
Group portraits -- 1910-1920.
Photographic postcards -- 1910-1920.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.174]
Accession number
P.2008.10.174
In Collections
John Frank Keith Photograph Collection
Log In