Group portrait showing two teenage men and two teenage women standing in front of a window in Philadelphia. The two women wear knitted hats with roll-back brims, and one holds a chain purse in her hands. The young man in the back row wears a dress suit and a fedora. The young man in the front row wears a three-piece suit with a cap and roller skates., Kruxo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 231., 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. 1917
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.4]
Group portrait showing five boys posing in front of a window of a wooden house in Philadelphia. The boys wear knee pants and shirts with ties, and three wear caps. One boy is on roller skates and another holds a ball in his hand. A lace curtain covers the lower half of the window behind them and part of a small dog standing on the sidewalk is visible., Ms. note on recto: Woodsie, Noko postcard., 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. 1918
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.93]
