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Title: Three young women standing in front of window, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing three young women, dressed up in their best dresses with stockings and dress shoes, standing in front of the window of a brick house in Philadelphia. Behind them, from inside the house, two small children and an adult can be seen looking out the window at the activity on the sidewalk. Two of the women wear glasses., The young woman in the middle is also the subject of John Frank Keith photographs P.2008.10.92 and P.8649.23, in which she wears the same clothing., 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.8649.36]

Title: Twin babies in a wicker baby coach, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing twin babies sitting in a wicker carriage parked in front of a brick wall in Philadelphia. Their hair is combed up to a point, and they wear matching dresses underneath crocheted or knitted sweaters, all in light colors., 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.2008.10.17]

Title: Two boys and two girls posing outside brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two girls, about seven and eight years old, standing behind two little boys outside a brick house in Philadelphia. The girls wear summer dresses. One boy, about five years old, wears a play suit with a plaid shirt and holds a lollipop. The other boy, younger, also holds a lollipop, and is dressed in a knitted cardigan 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.2008.10.149]

Title: Two boys standing in front of house door, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two young boys, one about fourteen years old, the other about eleven, standing in front of a door in Philadelphia. They are dressed alike in white shirts with light colored ties, knickers, dark stockings and dark shoes. Their hair is neatly combed. The door and frame are in need of paint and the marble steps leading up to the door are worn and dirty. To the right a brick alley is 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.2008.10.163]

Title: Two girls and a boy standing in front of brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a boy in knickers, rumpled sweater, and sneakers standing between two girls wearing dresses in front of a brick house in Philadelphia. All the children wear striped socks. They stand at attention on the sidewalk posed between 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.8649.2]

Title: Two girls in First Communion dresses standing in front of window, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two girls, about eight years old, standing in First Communion dress (white veils, dresses, stockings and shoes) in front of a first floor window (with white lace curtain and fringed shade) and a cellar window. Both of them hold very large bouquets of flowers., 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.8649.20]

Title: Two girls posing in summer dresses in front of brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two girls, about eleven or twelve years old, posing in their fine summer dresses. They are standing in front of a brick house with an open window 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.2008.10.143]

Title: Two girls standing in front of a brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a girl about ten years old and a girl about three years old standing in front of a brick house in Philadelphia. The older girl wears eyeglasses, a hat, a cape adorned with a corsage, and a skirt. She carries a small purse and wears short dark socks and dark shoes. The smaller child wears a princess-cut, light-colored coat with white stockings and 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. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.30]

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: Two girls standing in front of brick wall with their arms around one another, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two girls standing in front of a brick wall in Philadelphia. The girl on the left wears a white dress, a white ribbon in her hair and white socks with her patent leather shoes. She has her arm around the younger girl, who wears a printed summer dress and brown shoes with white socks. Lattice work covers the cellar windows of the brick house behind them., 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.2008.10.153]

Title: Two girls standing in front of window, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two little girls, their hair cut in bangs and with side curls, wearing identical headbands with ribbon bows standing in front of a window of a brick house in Philadelphia. They are probably sisters. Both wear summer dresses, white knee-high stockings, and dark 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. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.34; P.8649.37]

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: Two girls with an infant sitting on wooden steps of wooden house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two girls sitting with a small baby between them on the steps of a wooden house in Philadelphia. The baby wears a very ruffled cap. One of the girls wears a jumper with a blouse; the other girl wears a light-colored dress with some ruffle trim. The girls are smiling and enjoy playing with the baby., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 2703 E. Ontario St., Phila., Pa., 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. 1928
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.122]

Title: Two little boys dressed for First Communion standing in front of a brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two very earnest little boys, their hair neatly combed, standing in front of a brick house in Philadelphia. They wear identical outfits for the First Communion ceremony - white shirt, white short pants with white belts and white socks and 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. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.105]

Title: Two little boys in front of brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two little boys, about four or five years old and likely brothers, standing in front of a brick house in Philadelphia. The smaller boy on the left has straight hair and is wearing a sailor suit. His image is somewhat blurred. The taller boy on the right has curly hair and wears a white shirt to which his dark short pants are buttoned., 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.2008.10.134]

Title: Two little girls in First Communion dresses, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two little girls wearing white veils, white dresses, white knee-high socks and white shoes, holding hands and standing in front of a brick house in Philadelphia. Their hair is neatly combed., 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.2008.10.8]

Title: Two little girls sitting on a wooden stoop, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait of two blonde girls in summer dresses sitting on a wooden step in front of a door in Philadelphia. One appears to be about four years old; the other, about six or seven. The bigger one, who is smiling, has her arm around the smaller girl. The door behind them has a fringed shade with an overlay of lace. The brick walls are somewhat battered as is the door frame., Kodak postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 226., 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. 1944
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.23]

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: Two little girls standing in front of a stone building, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two little girls standing in front of a stone building in Philadelphia. They are both wearing good dresses and have their hair combed. The bigger girl wears a flowered dress with saddle shoes. The smaller girl wears a big bow in her hair, a patterned dress, and patent leather shoes. A decorative iron window grate is behind them., 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.2008.10.20]

Title: Two little girls standing in front of brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two little girls standing close together under the window of a brick house in Philadelphia. They both wear summer dresses, one patterned and the other plain. They wear white socks and shoes., The girl on the right is also the subject of John Frank Keith photograph P.2008.10.135., 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.8649.38]

Title: Two little girls standing in front of brick wall, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two girls, possibly sisters, about nine and seven years of age, in identical white dresses with ruffled skirts, white socks and shoes, standing in front of a brick wall in Philadelphia. The windows have wrought iron screens set in them. The older girl has her arm around the younger. Both of them have short, straight dark hair and bangs. They smile at the photographer., 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.2008.10.109]

Title: Two mature men sitting outside on a sofa, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two men in their forties or fifties sitting outside on a sofa with a wooden frame in Philadelphia. They are dressed in casual clothes - sports shirt, suspenders, and sweater. The man on the right wears a fedora and smokes a cigarette. The wooden wall behind them might be a fence rather than part of a house., 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.2008.10.110]

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: 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: Two men on marble steps, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two men, both wearing caps, posing on marble steps in Philadelphia. The man on the right stands with his foot on one step and leans forward on his knee and holds a cigarette. In the background is a door and a bricked alley., 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.2008.10.36]

Title: Two men, possibly father and son, standing in front of brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two men, possibly father and son, standing in front of brick house in Philadelphia. The younger man on the left is dressed in a light-colored three-piece suit with a printed tie. The older man on the right wears a dark pea jacket and holds a workman's cap in his hand. The window behind them is covered with 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.2008.10.88]

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: Two teenage girls and four younger children sitting at doorway of row house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a teenage girl sitting on the brownstone step of a house in Philadelphia. She is in her "good" dress covered by a short velveteen jacket and wears white stockings and high heels tied with a bow. Behind her in the doorway is another teenage girl and four little girls, all in summer clothes. They all smile at the photographer. The outside brick wall is smeared with graffiti., 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.2008.10.26]

Title: Two teenage men and two teenage women standing in front of window, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two teenage men and two teenage women standing in front of a window in Philadelphia. The two women wear knitted hats with roll-back brims, and one holds a chain purse in her hands. The young man in the back row wears a dress suit and a fedora. The young man in the front row wears a three-piece suit with a cap and roller skates., 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.2008.10.4]

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: Two women standing in front of brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two women who could be mother and daughter, both in their best dresses, standing with arms around each other in front of a window in a brick house in Philadelphia. The older woman on the right wears a dress with an ornate collar and cuffs. The window has open shutters and a fringed shade., 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.2008.10.77]

Title: Two women standing in front of old house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two women, arms around each other, standing in front of a wooden house in Philadelphia that is in need of paint and a restoration of the foundation. The woman on the left wears an unbelted vertically striped dress with white stockings and heels. The woman to the right wears a dark "good" dress; her slip is showing. She wears white stockings and heels as well., 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.2008.10.13]

Title: Two women standing in front of stone porch, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two young women, one in a suit, the other in a two-piece dress, both wearing white stockings and high heeled shoes, standing in front of a stone porch in Philadelphia. They have their arms around each other. Their hair is neatly combed and both wear lipstick., 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.2008.10.69]

Title: Two women standing in front of tall wooden fence, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two well dressed women in hats standing in front of a tall wooden fence with horizontal slats. The fence probably divides residential backyards., 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.8649.3]

Title: Two women with infant sitting on stoop, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two young women, one holding a very young infant, sitting on marble steps in front of a door in Philadelphia. The woman holding the baby wears a good summer dress. The other woman wears an attractive blouse and skirt., 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.8649.26]

Title: Two workmen sitting on a stoop, one drinking out of a beer bottle, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two men in suits and their workman's caps sitting on a marble stoop in Philadelphia. The man on the right has his arm around the other's shoulders and drinks out of a beer bottle., 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.2008.10.57]

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 young men in three-piece suits standing in front of brick and brownstone house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two young men posing outside a brick and brownstone house in Philadelphia. The young man on the left wears a fedora with his suit, but the suit jacket is too small for him and the sleeves are too short. He has a cigarette in his left hand. The young man to the right has his hair neatly combed and the curls combed straight., 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.2008.10.82]

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 young men sitting on stoop in front of door in alley, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two young men, both smoking cigarettes, sitting on the wooden stoop of a doorway within an alley in Philadelphia. One man rests his arm around the shoulders of the other., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 824 Sentner St., Crescentville, Phila., 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. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.1]

Title: Two young men sitting on wooden stoop, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two young men, possibly brothers, in shirtsleeves sitting on a wooden stoop in Philadelphia. The paint on the door in front of which they sit is peeled., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 824 Sentner St., Crescentville, Phila., 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. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.46]

Title: Two young men with caps in their hands standing in front of stone porch, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two young men with caps in their hands standing in front of a stone porch in Philadelphia. They wear slacks and shirts and have their hair neatly combed. Stained glass windows are visible in the house behind them., 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.2008.10.104]

Title: Two young women and two young children sitting on wooden steps, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait of two young women sitting next to each other on a wooden step in front of a door in Philadelphia. A young girl with a bow in her hair sits in front of one woman, and a toddler sits on the lap of the other. Both women wear ribbon headbands, long skirts, and blouses., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 2042 N. 6th St., Phila., 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.8768.2]

Title: Two young women and young man on stoop, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait of two young women and a young man sitting on a door stoop in Philadelphia. The young woman in front wears a white blouse, a full-length plaid skirt, lace-up shoes, and a peaked cap. The young man behind her is dressed in a tie and suit and sits next to a young woman wearing a striped shirt, long skirt, and lace-up shoes., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 824 Sentner St., Crescentville, Phila., 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. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.8]

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: Two young women standing on dirt path, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two young women, probably in their twenties, dressed in slacks, standing on a dirt path in front of shrubbery. One wears a blouse; the other appears to be wearing a knitted bathing suit. Both wear leather shoes and have their arms around each other's waist., 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.2008.10.126]

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: Woman and three children sitting on a wooden stoop, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait of a woman wearing an apron sitting beside three children on a wooden stoop in Philadelphia. Shows two boys, about seven and nine years old, one barefoot, with parted and combed hair and a young girl in a checked dress., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 2042 N. 6th St., Phila., 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.2008.10.40]

Title: Woman and three children standing in front of brick wall and shutters, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a woman holding an infant and two young girls standing in front of a brick wall and graffiti-covered wooden shutters in Philadelphia. All subjects wear white dresses, white stockings, and white 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.2008.10.59]

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]

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