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Title: Three men and a little boy sitting on a wooden stoop, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing three young men, two wearing workman's caps and the third with a wild head of hair, sitting on a wooden doorstep in Philadelphia with a little boy in a sailor suit standing in front of them. The child has very curly hair. Two men hold cigarettes., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8768.9]

Title: Seven men and one woman sitting on the steps of a wooden house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing seven men, all in shirtsleeves, except one who is in his undershirt and barefeet, sitting around a smiling woman who wears a checked summer dress in front of a wooden house in Philadelphia. One man wears a workman's cap. One man holds a cigarette in his hand; another, a cigar. The house appears to be in good repair. The sidewalk is brick in the herringbone pattern., Ms. note on recto: Chas, Dean, Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8768.9a]

Title: Young woman standing outside a brick and stone house holding a child, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a young woman standing outside a brick house in Philadelphia, holding a little child. She wears high heels and a summery dress. The child is also in a summery outfit, and white shoes. The cellar windows have wrought iron screens and also lace curtains. The first floor windows have tie-back curtains and shades with tassels., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.48; P.8768.14]

Title: Man and boy standing outside a screened porch, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a man in summer trousers and shirtsleeves and a little boy in long pants with suspenders standing outside a screened porch in front of a small garden, possibly at a shore resort near Philadelphia. The man has his hand on the child's shoulder. There is another wooden house very close next door., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8768.15]

Title: Young man and child in front of brick wall, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a young man in workman's clothes and wearing a workman's hat squatting down and holding a little child on its feet on a sidewalk in Philadelphia. The child is dressed in a winter coat and knitted or crocheted hat., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.113]

Title: Woman with two children sitting outside a wooden house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a woman, possibly a mother, with two children posing outside a wooden house in Philadelphia. The older child is a little girl with a big bow in her short hair. She wears a cotton dress with long white stockings. The younger child, sitting on the woman's lap, is probably a bit over a year old. It is dressed with a knitted or crocheted cap and a long coat with long stockings. The woman's hair is messy. She wears her apron over her lacy blouse. All three subjects have pleasant expressions on their faces., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.119]

Title: Three adults and four small children standing in front of brick wall, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two women, one of them very heavy, and a man in a three-piece suit, standing in front of a brick wall in Philadelphia. They have their arms around each other and in front of them stand four children (three little girls in dresses and a boy in sailor pants and a knitted cardigan). The man and the heavy women have a flower pinned to their clothes. The image is a bit blurred or overexposed because of the intense sunlight., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.123]

Title: Young woman with two children standing in front of brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a young woman in an attractive dark dress standing with two children in front of the window of a brick house in Philadelphia. She holds the hand one child, who is losing a diaper. A girl about eight years old holds the other hand of the child. She, too, is in a pretty dress. The window behind them is open and a sliding screen in place., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.137]

Title: Parents and daughter in a country setting, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two young parents, both wear bathing suits, holding a little girl who wears a dress and shoes. All of them are smiling amidst a backdrop of trees and foliage. The sides of two houses are also visible., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.138]

Title: Young woman standing on porch with little boy, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a tall, dark-haired young woman holding the arm of a little boy who is about two years old and is standing on the support of a stone porch in Philadelphia. She wears a dark dress with short ruffled sleeves. The boy wears shorts and a sweater., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.142]

Title: Mother holding infant, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a mother in a very rumpled and soiled dress holding her baby in front of a brick house in Philadelphia. She smiles with pride. There is another child in the opened window behind her. The window's awning is not extended. Part of a baby carriage is visible next to the woman., Ms. note on recto: Brown, Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.144]

Title: Man holding two small children on steps, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a man with no teeth smiling at the camera as he holds two small children on his lap. He holds a cigarette in his hand. They sit on brownstone steps that lead to a double door in Philadelphia. The end of a canvas baby carriage can be see to the left., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.150]

Title: Three little girls sitting on wooden steps with an older woman, possible a grandmother, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing three little girls, about three or four years old, sitting next to an older woman on the steps of a house in Philadelphia. The girls are all neatly combed and dressed in summer dresses with nice shoes and socks. The woman wear a printed summer dress and stockingss, and her Oxford shoes are neatly tied and polished. A broom handle is visible behind the woman., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.155]

Title: Three couples in bathing suits in woodland, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing three young couples dressed in woolen bathing suits posing on a grassy plot in a woodland. The man and the woman on the left wear glasses., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.160]

Title: Smiling woman with infant sitting on her lap, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a young woman sitting on the wooden steps of a modest wooden house in Philadelphia. She holds a baby with dark hair on her lap. Although she is wearing an apron she also wears dress shoes. She wears a short sleeve dress under the apron., 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.2008.10.168]

Title: Three girls standing in front of brick wall, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two smiling teenage girls, arms around each other's shoulders, wearing sleeveless summer printed dresses (one checked, one plaid), standing in front of a brick wall in Philadelphia. In front of them is a little girl, about four or five years old, also in a summer dress, knee socks and Mary Janes. There is graffiti on the brick wall 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.2008.10.21; P.8649.27]

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 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: Three girls standing in front of window, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing three girls, about twelve or thirteen years of age, standing on a sidewalk made of stone slabs under a window in Philadelphia. They have their arms wrapped around each other, and smile as they face the camera. Although a bit rumpled, the girls appear to be dressed in their best dresses and are wearing patent leather 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.8649.40]

Title: Four men standing outside a brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing four young men, arms around each other's shoulders, standing in a swaggering pose, smiling and talking in front of a brick house in Philadelphia. The window behind them is furnished only with a shade. The brick sidewalk is set in the herringbone pattern., 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.2008.10.7]

Title: Four teenage boys standing in front of brick and stone house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing four young men, arms around each other's shoulders, dressed in workman's caps and three piece suits, standing in front of a house in Philadelphia. They smile at the camera and show a bit of swagger. Behind them on the porch are two little boys wearing the same sort of outfits. A woman looks out the window behind them. The brick house has a stone porch and a window box, and the cellar windows are protected with painted wrought iron grates., Ms. note on mount: Left (George Grubb), 2300 S. Lee St., S. 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. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.15]

Title: Eleven men standing in front of brick wall, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing eleven men standing in front of a brick wall in Philadelphia. Six of them wear suits and the remaining five men are in shirtsleeves. One man wears a workman's cap and another, a fedora. The man at the far left holds a cigar. Splotches of paint dot the brick wall behind them. A closed metal box with a handle (possibly a camera box) sits on the sidewalk in front of 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.2008.10.80]

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 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: Five young men sitting outside a corner grocery store, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing five young men, all laughing and smiling, sitting together on the steps of a grocery store in Philadelphia. Heads of cabbage or lettuce are visible in the window. The men are wearing shirts and dark slacks and shoes. There is a little boy sitting behind them to the right. The streetscape is visible in the background., 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.2008.10.91]

Title: Three men standing outside a brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing three young men, two in ties and suit jackets and the third only in his dress slacks and shirt, standing in front of brick building and wooden shutters in Philadelphia. Two of them wear a workman's cap and the third wears a straw boater. There is graffiti on the brick wall 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.2008.10.102]

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: [John Rodgers and Mary Schmidt sitting on step in front of brick residence]
Description: Group portrait showing Rodgers iin his suit and tie, hair neatly slicked down, sitting with his arm around Schmidt, notable for the spit curl in the middle of her forehead. She wears a spring coat, white stockings and dark, high-heeled shoes. It looks as though she is wearing an engagement ring. The brick house in Philadelphia in front of which they sit is neatly painted and the brick trim is clean.In 1930 both the subjects lived on the 100 block of Dudley Street in South Philadelphia., Ms. note on verso: John Rodgers + Mary Schmidt. In 1930 the subjects both lived on the 100 block of Dudley Street in South 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.2008.10.2]

Title: Three men, possibly fathers, with three boys, possibly their sons, sitting on marble step, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing three young men, each wearing business suits, sitting with a boy, possibly his son, on his knee. The boys, about six to eight years old, wear knee-high socks, shirts and ties with sweaters over them. One of the boys wears a coat. The door behind the group has a fringed shade on its window., 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.2008.10.24]

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: Man, baby boy, and two puppies on a stone porch, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a child dressed in summer clothes sitting on a stone support to a porch in Philadelphia as a man with dark, slicked back hair, possibly his father, supports and consoles him. The baby is surrounded by two very small puppies., Ms. note on verso: Old man Fryman was as young at 80 as Turk is Today at 50, 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.2008.10.35]

Title: Seven men and a young boy sitting on brownstone steps, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing seven men of varying ages and a boy about fourteen years old, almost all dressed in suits and ties, sitting on the brownstone steps of a brick house in Philadelphia. One man, who holds a cigarette, sticks his tongue out 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.2008.10.78]

Title: Three females standing in front of brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two women and a younger girl standing in front of the window of a brick house in Philadelphia. The woman on the left wears a housedress and has her hair covered against dust with a cloth cloche. In the center is a young girl about eleven years old wearing a summer dress with white stockings. On the right is an older taller woman, also in a summer dress and high heels. The brick sidewalk is laid in a herringbone pattern., 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.2008.10.83]

Title: Three men and a little girl sitting on the sidewalk in front of a brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing three men wearing workman's caps and working clothes, sitting on a sidewalk in Philadelphia with a little girl among them. She has a very dirty face. There is graffiti on the brick wall behind them. The brick house adjoins a wooden structure., 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.2008.10.85]

Title: Woman with infant sitting on steps, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a woman holding an infant sitting on worn brownstone steps in Philadelphia. While the woman wears a sleeveless dress, the child wears a cap and long-sleeved coat or jacket. The image of the woman is blurred as the wind blows her hair about. The door behind them is in dire need of paint., 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.2008.10.90]

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: Three men and a woman on stone steps next to an alley, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing three young men, one dressed in a three piece suit with hat in hand and wearing a wedding ring, and an older woman in a printed dress sitting on marble steps next to an alley in Philadelphia. The two young men on the back row are in casual shirts. One has his arm around the shoulders of the other. The shades are drawn on both the door and the window behind them., Ms. note on verso: "Joe, John Donda, Mrs. Stumback, cousin, 100 titan St." Also: "15th & Jackson, near Playground, no more car barn-July 9-74" And:"Sofie & Barbara up in Pocono Pete", 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.2008.10.112]

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: 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: Teenage girl standing with two little girls in front of brick house, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a teenage girl with dark curly hair and flowered blouse (or dress) standing behind two little girls about three years old. The older girl and one of the little ones are smiling; the other child is puffed up with self-importance. All of them wear summer clothes. They stand on a cement sidewalk in front of a neatly painted 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.2008.10.10]

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 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: Four young women sitting on marble stoop, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing four young smiling women in patterned summer dresses, their hair neatly combed, sitting on a marble stoop in Philadelphia. One girl in the back still has some of her hair set in pin curls with bobby pins. The two in the back row have their hands on the shoulders of the two in the front row. One girl in the front row has reached over to hold the arm of the other girl in front., 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.2008.10.58]

Title: Three little girls sitting on a marble step, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing three girls sitting on a marble step in front of a door in Philadelphia. The two bigger girls, who are smiling, wear the same patterned knee-high stockings and summer dresses. The little girl in between them wears plain white stockings with her summer dress. There is graffiti on the brick wall behind them., Identified as Theresa, Mary, and Margaret McGoldrick, near 1700 S. Lee Street, 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.2008.10.70]

Title: Five young female friends standing in front of a brick wall, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing four nicely dressed young women standing with their arms around each other. A fifth young woman, in a striped sweater stoops down in front of them. One of the women has spit curls right in the center of her forehead. All have their hair bobbed., 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.2008.10.71]

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 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 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: 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: 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]

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