Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Man and two women sitting on a wooden stoop, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1922
Date ca. 1922
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver on postcard mount ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Group portrait showing a man sitting between two young women, his arms around their waists. His hair is neatly combed but his trousers are rumpled and there are no laces in his worn shoes. His workman's cap rests on his knee. The women are dressed both in blouses, dark skirts and stockings and dark shoes that are closed with ribbons. Thier hair is neatly combed. The door behind the wooden steps is in need of paint.
Notes Artura postcard.
See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 225.
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.
Men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Group portraits -- 1920-1930.
Photographic postcards -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.50]
Accession number P.2008.10.50