Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Infant in baby carriage, 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 laughing infant wearing a bib, sitting up in a carriage and looking at the camera. The carriage's protective netting is thrown back, and the carriage is parked next to a brick row house in Philadelphia. The carriage has a leather hood and a dark body. The brick sidewalk is very old and irregular.
Notes Ms. note on verso: 118 Morris; 141 Segal [sic]; 115 Ritner; 2347 S. Front; 88 Mifflin; 131 Manton; 132 Manton; 1241 Moya[mensing]; 1312 American St.; 1236 American St.; 126 Dudly [sic] St.; 1932 S. Front St. (Mercy).
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 Infants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Baby carriages -- 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.2008.10.3]
Accession number P.2008.10.3