Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Young girl in white dress standing in front of window, 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 young girl wearing a sleeveless white dress and white socks with patent leather shoes standing in front of a window in Philadelphia. There is a wreath of flowers on her head. She may be dressed for her First Communion or confirmation.
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.
Rites & ceremonies.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Portrait photographs -- 1930-1940.
Photographic postcards -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.165]
Accession number P.2008.10.165