We browsed our John Frank Keith Photograph Collection for inspiration for our final #ShoesInTheLibrary post, and we were not disappointed!
This classic Philly image is typical of Keith’s style, who often depicted working-class Philadelphians seated on stoops.
Read more about Keith and his photographs in an October 2017 blog post by Erika Piola, our Associate Curator of Prints and Photographs, here.
Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer. Three women and infant sitting on doorstep, Philadelphia. [graphic]. ca. 1915. 1 photographic print : gelatin silver on postcard mount ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.)












