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- Title
- Four girls sitting on wooden stoop, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait of four girls wearing dresses sitting on a wooden stoop in front of a door with chipped paint in Philadelphia. Two of the girls wear high heel shoes and two wear lace-up shoes., Ms. note on recto: Veronica Halpern, Marie Krause, Clara Bennet, Tootsie Young, Ms. note on verso: susan allen, Buster allen sister, Doozie, Veronica allen, Marie Krause, Clara Bennett, Young, Tootsie Young, Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., 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. 1915
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.48]
- Title
- Two young children on sidewalk with rocking chair, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait of two young children on a sidewalk in Philadelphia. A young girl wearing a bow in her hair stands behind a baby seated on a pillow in a child's rocking chair., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., 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. 1915
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.50]
- Title
- Two men and three women picnicing in wooded area, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two young men and three young women picnicing in a wooded area in Philadelphia. One of the men wears a straw boater hat. The seated women wear coats and walking shoes, and two of them eat food, including a banana., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., 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. 1915
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8768.4]
- Title
- Five girls sitting on marble steps, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing five girls sitting on marble steps in front of a door in Philadelphia. Two of the girls wear sailor blouses and one wears a dark beret., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., 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. 1915
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.5]
- Title
- Two young women standing in front of open window of brick house, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two young women standing, arms around each other's waist, in front of an open window in Philadelphia. They both wear cotton dresses and one wears a necklace., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., 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. 1915
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.28]
- Title
- Boy and girl standing in front of window, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a boy and a girl standing in front of a window with open shutters in Philadelphia. The boy wears a cap and stands behind the llittle girl, who wears a checked dress., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., 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. 1915
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.37]
- Title
- Girl with infant on lap sitting on wooden stoop, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a young girl with messy hair and clenched lips holding an infant on her lap and sitting on a wooden stoop in Philadelphia., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., 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. 1915
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.41]
- Title
- Man, woman, and little boy standing in front of door, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a young woman, with her hands on the shoulders of a little boy in front of her, standing beside a man in front of a door in Philadelphia. The woman wears a long coat with a velvet collar and cuffs, and the man wears a suit jacket., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., 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. 1915
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.52]
- Title
- Young man in sailor uniform holding infant on wooden stoop, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a young man wearing a sailor suit sitting on a wooden stoop and holding a baby between his knees. The baby is dressed in a knitted wool jacket and tassled cap, which obscures part of the man's face., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., 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. 1915
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.62]
- Title
- Two women sitting on marble steps in front of door, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two smiling women with their arms around each other sitting on marble steps in front of an intricately carved door in Philadelphia. One woman wears a dark belted jacket with white trim., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., 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.2008.10.12]
- Title
- Three girls standing in front of a brownstone building, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing three young girls, possibly sisters, in play dresses standing in front of a brownstone building in Philadelphia. One girl wears eyeglasses., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., 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.2008.10.46]
- Title
- Five men at wooden stoop, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing five men posing at a wooden stoop in Philadelphia. One man, wearing an unbuttoned vest, stands and four sit on the steps in front of a screen door. Four of the men wear caps, and one wears a boater., 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.2008.10.16]
- Title
- Five boys posing in front of wooden house, Philadelphia
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- [Florence Schlager and Harriet Goodchild in front of brick wall and shutters]
- Description
- Subjects identified in 1983 as Florence Schlager and her friend Harriet Goodchild at Second and Mountain Streets in South Philadelphia., Group portrait of Schlager and Goodchild (later Bryne), their arms around each other's waist, standing in front of a brick wall and closed window shutters in South Philadelphia. One woman wears a black dress with chiffon top and the other wears a light colored dress with decorative embroidery., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 2042 North 6th St., Phila., Title supplied by cataloger based on information provided by subject's daughter., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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.8649.5]
- Title
- Two nicely dressed young women standing in front of brick building, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two young women, one with her arm around the shoulders of the other, standing in front of a brick building in Philadelphia. They both wear dark dresses and dress shoes., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1920
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.118]
- Title
- Woman with curly hair holding infant, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a woman with curly hair in a dark chiffon dress holding an infant in Philadelphia. The baby wears a bouffant dress trimmed with lace., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1920
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8768.10]
- Title
- Young man sitting on stoop, Philadelphia
- Description
- Portrait of a young man, possibly Frankie Paul, wearing a suit, bow tie, and workman's cap sitting on wooden steps in front of a door in Philadelphia. His dress shoes are brightly polished and he holds a cigarette in his left hand., Ms. note on recto: Frankie Paul, Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 2042 N. Sixth St., Philadelphia, Pa., 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. 1913
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.25]
- Title
- Boy wearing a suit and ribbon bow on arm standing in front of brick house, Philadelphia
- Description
- Portrait showing a boy about six years of age wearing a belted suit with knee pants and a bow tied around his arm standing in front of a brick house in Philadelphia. He also wears a flower in his lapel. Ruffled tie-back curtains are visible in the window behind him., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1920
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.65]
- Title
- Infant in wicker baby carriage, Philadelphia
- Description
- Portrait showing an infant sitting up in a wicker baby carriage that is parked underneath the closed shutters of a window in Philadelphia., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 2042 North 6th St., Phila., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1920
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.159]
- Title
- Blond boy in overalls standing on sidewalk, Philadelphia
- Description
- Portrait showing a little boy with blond hair standing in a patch of weeds on the sidewalk in front of a brick wall and a screened cellar window in Philadelphia. He is dressed in a wrinkled, soiled playsuit and worn shoes., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1920
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.9; P.8649.11]
- Title
- Two young men sitting on marble steps, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two teenage men wearing caps sitting on marble steps in front of a door and graffiti-covered wall in Philadelphia., Cyko postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 233., 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. 1920
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.6]
- Title
- Two girls wearing headbands sitting on marble steps, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two girls wearing white dresses, white stockings, white shoes, and headbands sitting on marble steps in front of a door in Philadelphia. They also wear knitted coat sweaters over their dresses., Artura postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 225., 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. 1922
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.32]
- Title
- Woman holding child standing outside a brick and brownstone house, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a young woman, possibly a mother, holding a little girl and whispering to her in front of a brownstone house in Philadelphia. The woman has dark hair and wears a two-piece checked dress with short sleeves and white summer shoes. The girl wears a sleeveless dress., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.171; P.2008.10.172]
- Title
- Three men and girl on wooden stoop, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing an older man and two younger men sitting on a wooden stoop in Philadelphia with a teenage girl. She is dressed nicely and wears stockings and heels. Two of the men wear ties with their suits and all three men wear the working man's cap., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.14]
- Title
- Woman and girl standing in front of house, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a tall woman with white hair and wearing a long cotton house dress standing next to her daugher or granddaughter, who is also dressed in a cotton dress. They stand on the brick sidewalk next to the wooden stoop of a house in Philadelphia. Both subjects have their hair neatly combed. Both the window and the door of the house are open. This is probably a hot summer day. The brick wall is in need of pointing and the window frame and door frame are much in need of paint. The iron grating on the cellar window does not fit the frame., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.49]
- Title
- Man and woman sitting on marble steps, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a gray-haired man sitting, cigar in hand, next to a woman on marble steps in Philadelphia. He is in his shirtsleeves, and laced-up shoes. The woman beside him is younger and wears a checkered dress with short sleeves and white shoes. The window in the door behind them has a lace curtain., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8768.1]
- Title
- Woman with infant in front of stone porch, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a young woman in a winter coat standing outside a brick house with a stone porch in Philadelphia holding a baby, also dressed for winter, except the child isn't wearing a hat. The house has stained glass windows., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8768.3]
- Title
- Three men and a little boy sitting on a wooden stoop, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing three young men, two wearing workman's caps and the third with a wild head of hair, sitting on a wooden doorstep in Philadelphia with a little boy in a sailor suit standing in front of them. The child has very curly hair. Two men hold cigarettes., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8768.9]
- Title
- Seven men and one woman sitting on the steps of a wooden house, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing seven men, all in shirtsleeves, except one who is in his undershirt and barefeet, sitting around a smiling woman who wears a checked summer dress in front of a wooden house in Philadelphia. One man wears a workman's cap. One man holds a cigarette in his hand; another, a cigar. The house appears to be in good repair. The sidewalk is brick in the herringbone pattern., Ms. note on recto: Chas, Dean, Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8768.9a]
- Title
- Young woman standing outside a brick and stone house holding a child, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a young woman standing outside a brick house in Philadelphia, holding a little child. She wears high heels and a summery dress. The child is also in a summery outfit, and white shoes. The cellar windows have wrought iron screens and also lace curtains. The first floor windows have tie-back curtains and shades with tassels., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.48; P.8768.14]
- Title
- Man and boy standing outside a screened porch, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a man in summer trousers and shirtsleeves and a little boy in long pants with suspenders standing outside a screened porch in front of a small garden, possibly at a shore resort near Philadelphia. The man has his hand on the child's shoulder. There is another wooden house very close next door., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8768.15]
- Title
- Two girls standing in front of a house or factory, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two girls dressed in sailor-style two-piece dresses and calf-high laced shoes standing in front of a building in Philadelphia., 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.2008.10.64]
- Title
- Man and woman standing in front of a brick house, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a young man and a young women posing in front of a house in Philadelphia. The man wears a dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and the woman wears an apron over her blouse and skirt. In the window behind them is a sliding screen., 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.2008.10.72]
- Title
- Three women and two men on a wooden stoop, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing three women and two men on a stoop in front of a door in Philadelphia. A man wearing suspenders stands in the back next to a woman folding her arms, while a man sits in the foreground flanked by two women, one wearing a striped shirt and a cap., 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.2008.10.79]
- Title
- Three little girls sitting on marble steps, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing three girls, probably sisters, sitting on marble steps in front of a door in Philadelphia. All of them wear plaid dresses, dark stockings, and ankle-high dark shoes. The girl in the center wears a bow in her hair., 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.2008.10.89]
- Title
- Two little girls standing against a brick wall in their summer dresses, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two young girls, possibly siblings, in identical white dresses standing against a graffiti-covered brick wall in Philadelphia., 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.2008.10.147]
- Title
- Four older women standing in grassy backyard, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing four women standing in a backyard in Philadelphia. They wear jewelry and fine dresses made of embellished material., 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.2008.10.156]
- Title
- Two men and two boys in front of factory window, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two boys, about six or seven years old, standing between two men in front of a factory window in Philadelphia. The man on the left wears work clothes and a cap. The boys wear knee pants, and one holds a cap in his hand while his oversized sweater falls off his shoulders. The man on the right wears a pinstripe suit jacket and gestures his arm in the air. Graffiti is drawn on the brick wall behind them., 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.8649.31]
- Title
- Man standing with two girls in front of brick wall, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a man with a moustache, in his undershirt and trousers, hands on both hips, standing between two girls in front of a brick wall in Philadelphia. The girls wear white dresses, white stockings, and white shoes. Litter lies on the sidewalk in front of them., 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.8649.42]
- Title
- Woman with boy sitting on stoop, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a woman with her arm around a little boy, sitting on a wooden stoop in Philadelphia. She wears a white blouse with long sleeves and a dark straight skirt with buttons down one side. He wears a ribbon bow tie, dark knee-length pants, dark stockings, and ankle-high shoes., 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.8649.44]
- Title
- Young man and child in front of brick wall, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a young man in workman's clothes and wearing a workman's hat squatting down and holding a little child on its feet on a sidewalk in Philadelphia. The child is dressed in a winter coat and knitted or crocheted hat., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.113]
- Title
- Woman with two children sitting outside a wooden house, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a woman, possibly a mother, with two children posing outside a wooden house in Philadelphia. The older child is a little girl with a big bow in her short hair. She wears a cotton dress with long white stockings. The younger child, sitting on the woman's lap, is probably a bit over a year old. It is dressed with a knitted or crocheted cap and a long coat with long stockings. The woman's hair is messy. She wears her apron over her lacy blouse. All three subjects have pleasant expressions on their faces., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.119]
- Title
- Three adults and four small children standing in front of brick wall, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two women, one of them very heavy, and a man in a three-piece suit, standing in front of a brick wall in Philadelphia. They have their arms around each other and in front of them stand four children (three little girls in dresses and a boy in sailor pants and a knitted cardigan). The man and the heavy women have a flower pinned to their clothes. The image is a bit blurred or overexposed because of the intense sunlight., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.123]
- Title
- Young woman with two children standing in front of brick house, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a young woman in an attractive dark dress standing with two children in front of the window of a brick house in Philadelphia. She holds the hand one child, who is losing a diaper. A girl about eight years old holds the other hand of the child. She, too, is in a pretty dress. The window behind them is open and a sliding screen in place., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.137]
- Title
- Parents and daughter in a country setting, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing two young parents, both wear bathing suits, holding a little girl who wears a dress and shoes. All of them are smiling amidst a backdrop of trees and foliage. The sides of two houses are also visible., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.138]
- Title
- Young woman standing on porch with little boy, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a tall, dark-haired young woman holding the arm of a little boy who is about two years old and is standing on the support of a stone porch in Philadelphia. She wears a dark dress with short ruffled sleeves. The boy wears shorts and a sweater., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.142]
- Title
- Mother holding infant, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a mother in a very rumpled and soiled dress holding her baby in front of a brick house in Philadelphia. She smiles with pride. There is another child in the opened window behind her. The window's awning is not extended. Part of a baby carriage is visible next to the woman., Ms. note on recto: Brown, Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.144]
- Title
- Man holding two small children on steps, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing a man with no teeth smiling at the camera as he holds two small children on his lap. He holds a cigarette in his hand. They sit on brownstone steps that lead to a double door in Philadelphia. The end of a canvas baby carriage can be see to the left., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.150]
- Title
- Three little girls sitting on wooden steps with an older woman, possible a grandmother, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing three little girls, about three or four years old, sitting next to an older woman on the steps of a house in Philadelphia. The girls are all neatly combed and dressed in summer dresses with nice shoes and socks. The woman wear a printed summer dress and stockingss, and her Oxford shoes are neatly tied and polished. A broom handle is visible behind the woman., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.155]
- Title
- Three couples in bathing suits in woodland, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing three young couples dressed in woolen bathing suits posing on a grassy plot in a woodland. The man and the woman on the left wear glasses., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., 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. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.160]