Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Brick row house next to alley, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Date ca. 1931
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver on postcard mount ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description View of a three-story brick row house standing next to an alley in Philadelphia. The first floor window has an attractive fringed shade in it. The front door and window shutters are painted in two colors. The brick is in need of pointing.
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 Row houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Photographic postcards -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.176]
Accession number P.2008.10.176