Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Woman standing on sidewalk in front of porch, 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 woman dressed in an ankle-length pleated skirt with a dark jacket and a light-colored vest standing in front of a porch in Philadelphia. She also wears a hat with a pompom on top, dark leather gloves, and laced up dress shoes. She stands in front of a large brick house with a porch over a stone foundation. The cellar window is protected by a wrought iron screen.
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 Women -- 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.2008.10.131]
Accession number P.2008.10.131