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Girl in First Communion dress standing in front of painted brick wall, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A58950
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Creator
Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title
Girl in First Communion dress standing in front of painted brick wall, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1931
Date
ca. 1931
Physical Description
1 photographic print : gelatin silver on postcard mount ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description
Portrait of a little girl wearing a white dress with very full bows on both shoulders and both sides of her headband standing in front of a brick wall in Philadelphia. She holds her white missal out with both hands. Her white stockings are a bit twisted and her facial expression is serious.
Notes
Azo postcard.
See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223.
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.
Rites & ceremonies.
Genre
Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Portrait photographs -- 1930-1940.
Photographic postcards -- 1930-1940.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.121]
Accession number
P.2008.10.121
In Collections
John Frank Keith Photograph Collection
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