Blond boy in overalls standing on sidewalk, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Boys -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Portrait showing a little boy with blond hair standing in a patch of weeds on the sidewalk in front of a brick wall and a screened cellar window in Philadelphia. He is dressed in a wrinkled, soiled playsuit and worn shoes.
Azo postcard.
See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223.
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.
PA. Philadelphia. 1920
ca. 1920
Gelatin silver prints -- 1910-1920.
Portrait photographs -- 1910-1920.
Photographic postcards -- 1910-1920.
2 photographic prints : gelatin silver on postcard mount ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.)
digitool:58909
Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT PRINT Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.9; P.8649.11]
P.2008.10.9
P.8649.11