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Little girl in sunsuit standing in front of wooden house, Philadelphia. [graphic].
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Creator
Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title
Little girl in sunsuit standing in front of wooden house, 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, about six years old, standing in front of wooden house in Philadelphia. She wears a soiled sunsuit which is too small for her. Her posture is poor. Her legs are dirty and she wears no socks with her patent leather shoes. She looks up shyly at the camera. The house behind her is made of wood. It appears to need paint and the cement and stone foundation has holes in it.
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.
Genre
Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Portrait photographs -- 1930-1940.
Photographic postcards -- 1930-1940.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.166]
Accession number
P.2008.10.166
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John Frank Keith Photograph Collection
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