Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Group of teenagers standing in front of a stone porch, 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 Group portrait showing four young men and one young woman standing in front of a stone porch in Philadelphia. Three of the teen boys wear white shirts and trousers, bow ties and sleeve garters, and one has a cigarette in his mouth. Their workman's caps are decorated with bows and a ribbon with the words "Jack Rose Social" printed on it. The other young man wears a jacket and trousers as well as a workman's cap. The woman has her hair neatly combed and wears a dark dress with a pleated skirt and an apron.
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 Teenagers.
Smoking.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Group portraits -- 1920-1930.
Photographic postcards -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.39]
Accession number P.2008.10.39