Man holding two small children on steps, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer.
Men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Smoking.
Group portrait showing a man with no teeth smiling at the camera as he holds two small children on his lap. He holds a cigarette in his hand. They sit on brownstone steps that lead to a double door in Philadelphia. The end of a canvas baby carriage can be see to the left.
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:59056
Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT PRINT Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.150]
P.2008.10.150