Two girls standing in front of a brick house, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Girls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Eyeglasses.
Group portrait showing a girl about ten years old and a girl about three years old standing in front of a brick house in Philadelphia. The older girl wears eyeglasses, a hat, a cape adorned with a corsage, and a skirt. She carries a small purse and wears short dark socks and dark shoes. The smaller child wears a princess-cut, light-colored coat with white stockings and 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. 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.)
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Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT PRINT Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.30]
P.2008.10.30