Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Two workmen sitting on a stoop, one drinking out of a beer bottle, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1920
Date ca. 1920
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 men in suits and their workman's caps sitting on a marble stoop in Philadelphia. The man on the right has his arm around the other's shoulders and drinks out of a beer bottle.
Notes Azo postcard.
See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223.
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.
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.2008.10.57]
Accession number P.2008.10.57