Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Little girl standing on brownstone steps in front of door, 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 Portrait of a little girl with blonde curls wearing a rumpled cotton dress standing in front of a door in Philadelphia. Her socks are rolled down to her ankles. She is about four years of age.
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 Girls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Portrait photographs -- 1930-1940.
Photographic postcards -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.96]
Accession number P.2008.10.96