Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Two women sitting on marble steps in front of door, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1918
Date ca. 1918
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver on postcard mount ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Group portrait showing two smiling women with their arms around each other sitting on marble steps in front of an intricately carved door in Philadelphia. One woman wears a dark belted jacket with white trim.
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 Women -- 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.2008.10.12]
Accession number P.2008.10.12