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Young girl and dog sitting on marble steps, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A58900
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Creator
Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title
Young girl and dog sitting on marble steps, 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
Portrait showing a girl, about ten years old, with her arm around a black dog beside her, sitting on marble steps in Philadelphia. She wears a dress, white stockings, white shoes, and a bow in her hair. Behind her is an open door leading into a house, and on both sides of the steps are railings topped with flower boxes.
Notes
Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 2042 North 6th St., Phila.
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
Girls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dogs -- 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.2008.10.76]
Accession number
P.2008.10.76
In Collections
John Frank Keith Photograph Collection
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