Class photograph showing a bust-length portrait of Showell as a teen. He wears a zippered pullover, collared shirt, and tie. Showell, the nephew of Arthur Showell (1894-1943), was born and resided in Maryland as a child and young adult., Title from manuscript note on verso., Printed above portrait: School Days., Printed below portrait: 1946-47., Gift of Brice C. Showell.
Date
[1946]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - misc. - sitter - Showell [P.2015.1.4]
Bust-length portrait of a young unidentified Asian American woman. The woman, wearing her hair parted in the middle with tight curls close around her head and attired in a light-colored fur shawl and earrings, looks at the viewer., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred by the attire of the sitter., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982.
Creator
Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date
[ca. 1950]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators – Non-Philadelphia-Women – Portraits
Portrait of an infant wearing a little cap and hand-made sweater over its dress resting in a baby carriage with netting parked on a sidewalk in Philadelphia. There is another baby carriage parked in the background., Defender postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 228., 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. 1943
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.139]
