Collection of 250 portrait photographs on postcard stock depicting residents of South Philadelphia and Kensington by amateur photographer John Frank Keith (1883-1947), ca. 1910-ca. 1940. Keith documented hundreds of, typically unidentified, working-class Philadelphians, individually, and as groups standing on sidewalks, in front of streetscape, and sitting on stoops. The majority of photographs date to the 1920s and show men, women, and children.

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Backyard window, Philadelphia.
Blond boy in overalls standing on sidewalk, Philadelphia.
Boy and girl in front of a religious statue of Mary, Philadelphia.
Boy and girl posing in sailor outfits in front of brick wall, Philadelphia.
Boy and girl standing in front of brick house, Philadelphia.
Boy and girl standing in front of brownstone house, Philadelphia.
Boy and girl standing in front of window, Philadelphia.
Boy and his dog sitting on marble steps, Philadelphia.
Boy and two young men in suits standing outside brick building, Philadelphia.
Boy wearing a suit and ribbon bow on arm standing in front of brick house, Philadelphia.
Boy wearing white outfit standing in front of wall, Philadelphia.
Boy with baby on old marble steps, Philadelphia.
Boys and girls sitting on a doorstep, Philadelphia.
Brick row house next to alley, Philadelphia.
Canoes for rent in wooded area, Philadelphia.
Child sitting in a wheeled scooter, Philadelphia.
Child standing on sidewalk with woman, Philadelphia.
Children sitting on the hood of a car or truck, Philadelphia.
Eight men and boys standing outside a brick building, Philadelphia.
Eleven men standing in front of brick wall, Philadelphia.
Five boys posing in front of wooden house, Philadelphia.
Five boys sitting on the wooden door of a sidewalk cellar entrance, Philadelphia.
Five children and older woman standing in front of brick building, Philadelphia.
Five girls sitting on marble steps, Philadelphia.
Five men and two women on the front steps of a brick house, Philadelphia.
Five men at wooden stoop, Philadelphia.
Five men, one drinking out of a flask, sitting on a doorstep, Philadelphia.
Five young female friends standing in front of a brick wall, Philadelphia.
Five young men sitting outside a corner grocery store, Philadelphia.
Two young women in front of brick wall and shutters, Philadelphia.
Four girls sitting on wooden stoop, Philadelphia.
Four men sitting in front of large doorway, Philadelphia.
Four men sitting on stone step in front of porch, Philadelphia.
Four men standing outside a brick house, Philadelphia.
Four older women standing in grassy backyard, Philadelphia.
Four teenage boys standing in front of brick and stone house, Philadelphia.
Four young men posing as gangsters, Philadelphia.
Four young women sitting on marble stoop, Philadelphia.
Frowning girl on steps, Philadelphia.
Girl and her dog on a stone porch, Philadelphia.

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