Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Five men and two women on the front steps of a brick house, 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 men and two women posing in front of the door and window shutters of a brick house in Philadelphia. Four of the men wear suits and ties with their workman caps. The man in the center holds a cigar. The women wear dark suits, stockings and shoes. One of the women is wearing a workman's cap. The other woman wears gloves.
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 Men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women -- 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.2008.10.97]
Accession number P.2008.10.97