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Boys and girls sitting on a doorstep, Philadelphia. [graphic].
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John Frank Keith Photograph Collection
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Creator
Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title
Boys and girls sitting on a doorstep, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Date
ca. 1915
Physical Description
1 photographic print : gelatin silver on postcard mount ; 9 x 14 cm. (3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description
Group portrait showing two boys and four little girls, their clothes and faces spotted with dirt, sitting on a doorstep in Philadelphia. The young girl sitting on the sidewalk in front of the others has side-parted hair with a bow.
Notes
Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 824 Sentner St., Crescentville, Phila., Pa.
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
Children -- 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.8649.41]
Accession number
P.8649.41
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John Frank Keith Photograph Collection
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