Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Two women standing in front of stone 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 Group portrait showing two young women, one in a suit, the other in a two-piece dress, both wearing white stockings and high heeled shoes, standing in front of a stone porch in Philadelphia. They have their arms around each other. Their hair is neatly combed and both wear lipstick.
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.
Group portraits -- 1930-1940.
Photographic postcards -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.69]
Accession number P.2008.10.69