Portrait of a little boy, about four years old, with neatly combed hair and wearing a pressed summer playsuit, sitting on a park bench in Philadelphia. Both of his legs are encased in leather and metal braces from the knees to the foot., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., 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.
Creator
Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date
ca. 1915
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.154]
