Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Two little girls sitting on a wooden stoop, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1944
Date ca. 1944
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver on postcard mount ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Group portrait of two blonde girls in summer dresses sitting on a wooden step in front of a door in Philadelphia. One appears to be about four years old; the other, about six or seven. The bigger one, who is smiling, has her arm around the smaller girl. The door behind them has a fringed shade with an overlay of lace. The brick walls are somewhat battered as is the door frame.
Notes Kodak postcard.
See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 226.
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 Girls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1940-1950.
Group portraits -- 1940-1950.
Photographic postcards -- 1940-1950.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.23]
Accession number P.2008.10.23