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Woman and girl standing in front of house, Philadelphia. [graphic].
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Creator
Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title
Woman and girl standing in front of 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
Group portrait showing a tall woman with white hair and wearing a long cotton house dress standing next to her daugher or granddaughter, who is also dressed in a cotton dress. They stand on the brick sidewalk next to the wooden stoop of a house in Philadelphia. Both subjects have their hair neatly combed. Both the window and the door of the house are open. This is probably a hot summer day. The brick wall is in need of pointing and the window frame and door frame are much in need of paint. The iron grating on the cellar window does not fit the frame.
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.
Girls -- 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.8649.49]
Accession number
P.8649.49
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John Frank Keith Photograph Collection
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