Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Group of boys and girls sitting on wooden stoop in front of screen doors, 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 five small children, some smiling, sitting on a wooden stoop with an old brick sidewalk underfoot. Two boys are dressed in fresh shirts and ties. Their hair is neatly combed. In front of them are three younger girls, all in white, summery dresses. Behind them are two screen doors.
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 Children -- 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.2008.10.68]
Accession number P.2008.10.68