Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Little girl with a bow in her hair standing in front of a door, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1917
Date ca. 1917
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver on postcard mount ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Portrait showing a smiling little girl with a bow in her hair standing on wooden steps in front of a door in Philadelphia. About seven years old, she wears a white dress with a colored ribbon marking the bodice, white stockings, and white shoes. Her dark hair is cut short and her bangs are even.
Notes 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.
Portrait photographs -- 1910-1920.
Photographic postcards -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.117]
Accession number P.2008.10.117