Details
Creator Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Title Three men sitting on a wooden stoop, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Date ca. 1931
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver on postcard mount ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Group portrait showing three workmen, probably forty and older, sitting on a wooden doorstep next to an alley in Philadelphia. The sidewalk is of old brick. The rear end of a dog can be seen to the right. The door to the house behind them is in need of paint.
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 Men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dogs -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Group portraits -- 1930-1940.
Photographic postcards -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photographs-Keith [P.8768.7]
Accession number P.8768.7