Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Group of young men and women sitting on a loading dock or wharf, drinking, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1913
Date ca. 1913
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver on postcard mount ; 9 x 14 cm. (3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Group portrait depicting three young men and two young women sitting on a loading dock or wharf, drinking, in Philadelphia. The men drape their arms over the shoulders of the women, and one couple holds hands. A little girl in a summer dress with a bow in her hair sits alone on the other side of a pillar next to the group.
Notes Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 2042 N. 6th St., Phila.
Kruxo postcard.
See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 231.
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 Men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Eating & drinking -- 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.2008.10.129]
Accession number P.2008.10.129