Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Five boys posing in front of wooden house, 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 five boys posing in front of a window of a wooden house in Philadelphia. The boys wear knee pants and shirts with ties, and three wear caps. One boy is on roller skates and another holds a ball in his hand. A lace curtain covers the lower half of the window behind them and part of a small dog standing on the sidewalk is visible.
Notes Ms. note on recto: Woodsie
Noko postcard.
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 Boys -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dogs -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Roller skates
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1910-1920.
Group portraits -- 1910-1920.
Photographic postcards -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.93]
Accession number P.2008.10.93