Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Man leaning against an old wooden wall of a house, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1925
Date ca. 1925
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver on postcard mount ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Portrait showing a man in shirtsleeves and a workman's cap standing in front of a wall of a wooden house in Philadelphia. He wears sleeve garters. The wooden wall behind him is very rough and carries some graffiti. The shutters to the window behind him are closed. He is standing on the door to the cellar.
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.
Graffiti -- 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.2008.10.25]
Accession number P.2008.10.25