Boy and girl posing in sailor outfits in front of brick wall, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Graffiti -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Group portrait showing a seated little boy, about five years old, and a standing girl, about eight years old, wearing sailor shirts and trousers and hats standing in front of a brick wall in Philadelphia. The boy affects a casual air, sitting in a child's wooden chair, his legs crossed. The brick wall behind them has graffiti on it.
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. 1931
ca. 1931
Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Group portraits -- 1930-1940.
Photographic postcards -- 1930-1940.
1 photographic print : gelatin silver on postcard mount ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.)
digitool:58998
Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT PRINT Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.177]
P.2008.10.177