Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Man and teenage boy standing in front of a brick house, 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 showing a man with his arm around the shoulder of a teenage boy in front of a brick house in Philadelphia. Both are dressed in white shirts and neat slacks. The boy wears a vest and white shoes. The man's tie is tucked inside his shirt, and he wears a belt with a decorative buckle.
Notes Ms. note on verso: 216 Wilder St.; 220 Dickinson; 149 Morris; 154 Watkins; Lee & Ritner; 2312 Lee; 108 Fed[eral]; 121 Manton; 134 Manton; 2d & Earp; 1820 S 2; 139 Wilder; 201 Gerritt; 202 Gerritt; 146 Fernon; 111 McClellan; 2254 Lee.
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 Men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Teenagers.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1940-1950.
Group portraits -- 1940-1950.
Photographic postcards -- 1940-1950.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.108]
Accession number P.2008.10.108