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- Title
- Three girls standing in front of wooden house, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait of three girls wearing dresses standing in front of a wood frame building and shutter in Philadelphia. Two of the girls wear bows in their tied-back hair. The girl on the right holds a ball and string in her hand., 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.8649.29]
- 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
- 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 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
- [Group portrait of members of the First Association of Spiritualists, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Depicts the members, including two African American women, on the steps of their temple completed in 1901 at 12th and Thompson Streets. Shows the men and women standing on the sidewalk, on the steps, and in front of the open door before the entrance. Mounted on the brick wall is a plaque that reads, Temple First Association of Spiritualists. Rev. Will. J. Erwood…” The First Association of Spiritualists was a religious group that began as a benevolent society in 1852 in search of spiritual truth through spirit guides, seances, and science., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from postcard type and attire of the sitters., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Gift of Chris Boas, 1990., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the late 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1917]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photographs - Keith [P.9295]
- Title
- [Group portrait of members of the First Association of Spiritualists, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Depicts the members, including two African American women, on the steps of their temple completed in 1901 at 12th and Thompson Streets. Shows the men and women standing on the sidewalk, on the steps, and in front of the open door before the entrance. Mounted on the brick wall is a plaque that reads, Temple First Association of Spiritualists. Rev. Will. J. Erwood…” The First Association of Spiritualists was a religious group that began as a benevolent society in 1852 in search of spiritual truth through spirit guides, seances, and science., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from postcard type and attire of the sitters., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Gift of Chris Boas, 1990., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the late 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1917]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photographs - Keith [P.9295]