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Title: Boy and girl standing in front of brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a boy about ten years old, dressed in knickers and a soiled shirt standing with his arm around a little girl's shoulders. She looks about four or five years old and wears a summer dress and white shoes. They stand in front of a brick house in Philadelphia., 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.2008.10.29]

Title: Boy and girl standing in front of brownstone house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a boy and girl, who might be siblings, standing in front of a brownstone building in Philadelphia. The boy's figure is a bit blurred. He wears a summer shirt and dark shorts. The little girl's dress has ruffles but appears to be quite wrinkled. They both wear 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.2008.10.146]

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 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: Girl and two boys standing on sidewalk in front of two windows, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a teenage girl in a flowered two-piece dress standing with two little boys who are probably her brothers, holding on to them with both of her hands. The older boy wears a light colored suit with short pants and drab shoes. This might be his First Communion suit. The younger boy wears bib overalls and a shirt trimmed with ruffles. All three children have their hair neatly combed. Flower boxes and potted plants sit on the window sill behind them., Ms. note on recto: Ray Mitchell (crossed out), Andrea (?) Ferricola, Frankie Ferricola, Joe Ferricola, 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.8649.34]

Title: Three children in front of a brick wall with two windows, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two boys, one about seven years old, the other about five, and a little girl, about six years old, standing in front of a brick house in Philadelphia. All are neatly combed and dressed in summer outfits. They might be siblings. The window shutters behind them are in dire need of paint as are the window frames. The window sills appear to be damaged 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.8649.35]

Title: Small child sitting on marble steps, Philadelphia
Description: Portrait showing a small child sitting on marble steps in front of a door in Philadelphia. The child wears a summer dress and striped stockings and holds a toy in its hand., 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. 1925
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.84]

Title: Small child standing on a stone porch, Philadelphia
Description: Portrait of a small blonde child under the age of two standing unsteadily on a porch support wearing a white summer dress, white socks, and dark shoes and looking directly 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.2008.10.111]

Title: Young child standing in front of brick wall, Philadelphia
Description: Portrait of young child about three years old with neatly parted slicked down hair wearing a clean baggy playsuit with long sleeves, long white stockings, and ankle-high dark shoes standing on a sidewalk in Philadelphia. There is graffiti on the brick wall behind the subject and weeds protruding from the brick sidewalk., 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. 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.60]

Title: Little girl with a bow in her hair standing in front of a door, Philadelphia
Description: Portrait showing a smiling little girl with a bow in her hair standing on wooden steps in front of a door in Philadelphia. About seven years old, she wears a white dress with a colored ribbon marking the bodice, white stockings, and white shoes. Her dark hair is cut short and her bangs are even., 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.2008.10.117]

Title: Small child sitting on wooden stoop, Philadelphia
Description: Portrait showing a small child sitting on a wooden stoop in Philadelphia. Behind the child is a screen door., 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.8649.7]

Title: Group of boys and girls sitting on wooden stoop in front of screen doors, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing five small children, some smiling, sitting on a wooden stoop with an old brick sidewalk underfoot. Two boys are dressed in fresh shirts and ties. Their hair is neatly combed. In front of them are three younger girls, all in white, summery dresses. Behind them are two screen doors., 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.2008.10.68]

Title: Boys and girls sitting on a doorstep, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two boys and four little girls, their clothes and faces spotted with dirt, sitting on a doorstep in Philadelphia. The young girl sitting on the sidewalk in front of the others has side-parted hair with a bow., 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.8649.41]

Title: Small child standing on doorstep, Philadelphia
Description: Portrait of a small child wearing a white long-sleeved dress, white shoes, and a petticoat adorned with eyelets standing on a doorstep in Philadelphia., 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.2008.10.127]

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: 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: Group of children gathered on steps in front of house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing over twenty-five children gathered on the steps of a brick house under a striped awning in Philadelphia. The children range in age from infancy to nine or ten years old. They are dressed nicely in summer clothes and might be on an outing., 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.8768.13]

Title: [Group of unidentified children outside of storefront]
Description: Depicts a boy holding the handles to a wagon in which a baby sits. A third child sits, looking directly at the camera. In the background are two girls and a boy looking at the baby in the wagon, and a woman shielding her eyes from the sun. Numerous cans of Chipso, the first laundry soap designed for use in washing machines, are stacked in store window behind the group., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 164.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 112 [P.8513.112], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson112.htm

Title: [Group of children, Southwark, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts group of boys and girls in coats and hats posed in front of a wall., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A group from one of the melting pot sections of Phila., Southwark. Note: the two little boys on the left, the questioning seriousness of one and the amused assurance of the other. (Tell about sledding down an ash pile without snow, ice or cold weather and about tin-can-decorated trees and electric wires.), Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 101 [P.3513.101], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson101.htm

Title: Children sitting on the hood of a car or truck, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing four small children sitting on a quilt or blanket on the hood of an automobile or truck in Philadelphia. They are dressed in casual clothing. Three of the four are squinting because of the glare of the sunlight. One of the children holds onto the hood ornament. The eyes of an adult holding on to one of the children can be seen behind them. In the background is an attractive brick row 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.2008.10.98]

Title: Boy and girl posing in sailor outfits in front of brick wall, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a seated little boy, about five years old, and a standing girl, about eight years old, wearing sailor shirts and trousers and hats standing in front of a brick wall in Philadelphia. The boy affects a casual air, sitting in a child's wooden chair, his legs crossed. The brick wall behind them has graffiti on it., 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.2008.10.177]

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: 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: Child standing on sidewalk with woman, Philadelphia
Description: Portrait showing a young child standing on a sidewalk in Philadelphia, being supported by the hand of a woman crouched beside him. The child wears a baggy playsuit with white stockings and patent leather shoes. In the background is a brick wall bearing graffiti., 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.2008.10.49]

Title: Group of men and children posing on steps of brownstone house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing nine men and three children sitting on steps in front of a brownstone house in Philadelphia. A woman leans out of a window on the right from within the house. Several of the men wear suits and fedoras or caps. The sun casts a shadow over the children in the front row., 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.2008.10.114]

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: 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: 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: Five children and older woman standing in front of brick building, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing three boys and two little girls, possibly dressed for church at Easter, standing with an older woman, possibly a grandmother, in front of a brick building in Philadelphia. Both girls wear double-breasted woolen coats with matching hats, white socks and white shoes. The taller girl also has a purse. The boys wear knickers, matching jackets and ties. They are all smiling. To the right is a much older heavy-set woman in a big coat. She is looking to her left instead of at the photographer. There is a bit of graffiti on the wall behind the children., 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.2008.10.95]

Title: A quaint cute old house on Race St. bet. 2nd and 3rd
Description: View showing the residential row house with lace draperies adorning the windows. Four children sit on the small stoop and stand near the cellar door of the house., Title from descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: They could not spoil it entirely by having half glass saches [sic] installed in the windows or placing the glass panel in the door. Imagine the small panes of glass of colonial days, in the windows and the two original narrow wood panels placed back in the door in leau [sic] of the glass. See how much better it looks?, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.111], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson111.htm

Title: Drinking fountain, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia
Description: Two boys pose at drinking fountain in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. One looks directly at the camera, while the other leans over to take a drink from the fountain., Title and location from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 102 [P.8513.102], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson102.htm

Title: Men playing cards on stoop, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait of six men and three children sitting on a stoop and chairs in Philadelphia. Of the six men, four hold playing cards, three smoke cigarettes, and two hold glasses of beer. Two young girls, one holding an infant, stand in the background., 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.8649.4]

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 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: Group of fourteen people sitting and standing in the doorway of a brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing fourteen men, women, and children standing in the doorway of a brick house in Philadelphia. They are dressed for summer and crowd together to have their photo taken. Two of the women hold infants. There are at least three other small children. Two teenage boys stand in the doorway. A newspaper clutters the sidewalk., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 2703 E Ontario St., Phila PA, 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.8958.2]

Title: Court off Ellsworth St. No. side E of 10 St
Description: Depicts fifteen children in the courtyard between their row homes. Two boys in the background have climbed a lampost to pose for the picture. Two other boys are posed with their fists clenched in a boxer's stance. One older girl holds a younger child and faces away from the camera. Still other children pose proudly. Wash hangs in the courtyard., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Court off Ellsworth St, No side E of 10 St. This court - or rather the buildings in it - are comparatively new, consequently it is comparatively sanatary [sic]. All the children in this picture live in the 5 houses comprising this court. It is from this and the Southwark districts that the glovemen of the squared circle principally eminate [sic]. Note two prospective champions in foreground., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 85 [P.8513.85], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson85.htm

Title: [Philadelphia residence -- unidentified location]
Description: View of house facade. Next door, three children play on the stoop of building with store on first floor and fire escapes extending from top floor., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A quaint old house - downtown Phila. Tell about youngster knocking camera over. Find out location of this house and its history., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 219 [P.8513.219], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson219.htm

Title: Court. Lombard St. W. of 7
Description: Depicts the courtyard between the brick residences of 710 and 714 Lombard Street, Philadelphia. An African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, a white shirt, dark-colored pants, and shoes, stands in the courtyard near 710 facing the viewer. In the right, several children, including African Americans, sit on the stoop of the opposite residence. Chairs are visible in the courtyard., Title from manuscript note on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.88], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson88.htm

Title: Court. Lombard St. W. of 7
Description: Depicts the courtyard between the brick residences of 710 and 714 Lombard Street, Philadelphia. An African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, a white shirt, dark-colored pants, and shoes, stands in the courtyard near 710 facing the viewer. In the right, several children, including African Americans, sit on the stoop of the opposite residence. Chairs are visible in the courtyard., Title from manuscript note on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.88], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson88.htm

Title: The Water Babies
Description: View of the statue "The Water Babies," designed by M.S. Gould, on display in the Art Gallery Annex. Depicts two nude young children, cuddling together inside an oversized seashell. One child sits awake with its arm around a smaller child with its eyes closed. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., White curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.2010.6.5]

Title: Pupil's polka composed and dedicated to the pupils of Hlasko's Dancing Academy by A. Tatzel, senr
Description: Sheet music cover containing an interior view showing children at dance class at the physical institute operated by Miecislaw Hlasko. A mother introduces her son to the instructor as boy-girl and girl-girl couples perform different dance steps. Parents watch the children from the dance floor and other chaperones and children sit on a long cushioned bench lining a side of the hall. Two musicians play from a raised platform adorned with a balustrade in the background. Space also includes chandeliers and a skylight., Prices printed on recto: Colored 4 1/2; Plain 3., Includes the sheet music., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 629, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [c[1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sheet Music Germ 11309.F (Doret)

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: Outdoor group portrait of men, women, and children, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing over forty people, possibly all related, dressed in summer clothes, some in bathing suits, posing on a lawn in a wooded area near Philadelphia. In the back row, a man in a bathing suit is held above the head of another man. There are several children, including an infant, seated in the first two rows., 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.8768.16]

Title: Factory of the Meter Co. Phila
Description: View of the American Meter Company at Arch and Twenty-Second streets. Includes a group of children seated on a patch of grass in front of the manufactory. Philadelphia served as the chief seat of gas-making machinery in the United States during the mid nineteenth century., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to John Moran., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Industry [P.8464.21]

Title: St. Clement's Church (Protestant Episcopal), Twentieth and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia
Description: View of south and west facades of Romanesque Revival church along Appletree Street. Children stand and sit near a partially standing wooden fence next to the church. Brick rowhouses visible on 20th and Cherry Streets in background. Church constructed between 1855 and 1859 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Notman., Text on verso relates history of church and lists ministers and vestry members., Attributed to John Moran., Duplicate of (4)1322.F.81d.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McAllister - St. Clement's [P.9847]

Title: William Zennels
Description: Full-length portrait of an African American baby propped up on a fur-covered chair. Zennels, attired in a long-sleeved cardigan, a long white shirt, pants, and shoes, looks at the viewer., Title and date from manuscript note written on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Born June 1917., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Photographer's insignia blindstamped on mount., Cover adorned with decorative blindstamp., Gift of Erika Piola, 2002., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Benjamin W. Fowler operated from 238 N. Eighth St., Philadelphia between 1889 and 1917.
Creator: Fowler, Benjamin W., photographer
Date: [1917]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - sitter - Zennels [P.2002.44]

Title: A group of young hill climbers of Manyunk [sic] with a background of overlapping roofs, to say nothing of a weekly wash
Description: Depicts seven children standing in the snow in front of a wooden fence. Background of image includes the backs of houses built on a hill, backyards separated by fences, and wash hanging on clotheslines., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 95 [P.8513.95], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson95.htm

Title: Mother and great-grand-aunt of the two daughters
Description: Group portrait of woman holding her two daughters with her aunt sitting next to her on a couch., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Age of the g-g-a 103 yrs. Does not wear glasses, can walk, attend to household duties and possesses a remarkable memory. Is hard of hearing but can keep up a rapid fire conversation. Has a fine sense of humor. Eats what she wants, when she wants it, does not worry and has never had indigestion. Age authentic. (Relate story of the fractured hip and dislocated shoulder blade). Had her hair bobbed., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 113 [P.8513.113], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson113.htm

Title: A little court off Front St. no. of Arch St
Description: Depicts two brick homes, with two children posed in front of each building., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: These houses in the picture, likewise all those in court are considerably over 125 years. At the upper end of this court there is an alley. In this alley there is a three story, Flemish bond front, house. In this house Benj Franklin resided. So he passed the buildings herewith photographed, in going to - or coming from his home, since there never was any other way of gaining entrance to his home than by passing up this alley. Houses rent from $6 to $9 per mo. (Tell about woman and the Dardenells story. Judicate the pride of residentials (Americans) of this section in the houses of the neighborhood. Proud of the long periods they have resided there., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 118 [P.8513.118], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson118.htm

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