Portrait of little girl approximately three years old wearing a nicely ironed summer dress with short sleeves, short white socks, and patent leather Mary Jane style shoes sitting on a stone porch in Philadelphia. Her hair is brushed down with two curls on the forehead., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 2042 North 6th St., Phila., Velox postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 221., 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. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.44]
