Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Little girl in summer dress standing on sidewalk, 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 Portrait showing a little girl wearing a white dress trimmed with ribbon flowers at the neckline and shoulders standing on the sidewalk in front of a brick house in Philadelphia. She also wears white knee high socks, white shoes, and a white ribbon in her hair. The cellar window behind her is protected by metal bars.
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 Girls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Portrait photographs -- 1920-1930.
Photographic postcards -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.148]
Accession number P.2008.10.148