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Title: Down where the cotton blossoms grow
Description: Postcard depicting a group portrait of African American cotton pickers, predominantly women and children, in a cotton field. Show the workers stopped from their work and posed toward the viewer. One of the women holds a baby. A wooded area is seen in the background., Date inferred from postmark: New Orleans, May 13, 1911, 9AM., Addressed in manuscript to: Miss Ester Wilson, 318 N. Jardin St., Shenandoah, Penna. Signed H.F.M., Contains cancelled one-cent stamp printed in green ink and depicting Benjamin Franklin in profile., Printed on verso: Made in U.S.A., Gift of George R. Allen., Divided back., Lipsher Specialty Co. operated 1909-1914 and published views of and around New Orleans.
Date: [ca. 1911]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Non-Pennsylvania [P.2013.65.20]

Title: Sugar cane plantation
Description: Postcard depicting a group portrait of male African American sugarcane workers, including several boys, posed in a sugarcane field. Most of the workers, stand and hold canes, while two boys sit on reaped cane in the foreground. A wooded area is seen in the background., Date inferred from postmark: New Orleans, May 13, 1911, 9AM., Addressed in manuscript to: Mr. John Wilson, 318 N. Jardin St., Shenandoah, Penna. Signed H.F.M., Contains cancelled one-cent stamp printed in green ink and depicting Benjamin Franklin in profile., Gift of George R. Allen., Divided back.
Date: [ca. 1911]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Non-Pennsylvania [P.2013.65.19]

Title: [Florence Schlager and Harriet Goodchild in front of brick wall and shutters]
Description: Subjects identified in 1983 as Florence Schlager and her friend Harriet Goodchild at Second and Mountain Streets in South Philadelphia., Group portrait of Schlager and Goodchild (later Bryne), their arms around each other's waist, standing in front of a brick wall and closed window shutters in South Philadelphia. One woman wears a black dress with chiffon top and the other wears a light colored dress with decorative embroidery., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 2042 North 6th St., Phila., Title supplied by cataloger based on information provided by subject's daughter., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1918
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.5]

Title: [BRL?] minstrels of Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait photograph depicting nine white members of a minstrel club, including two in Blackface, seated in a row on a stage in front of a paneled wall. The performers are attired in dark tuxedo suits or Buster Brown suits in a checkered pattern, gloves, and comical corsages. "Blackface minstrelsy is a popular entertainment form, originating in the United States in the mid-19th century and remaining in American life through the 20th century. The form is based around stereotypical and racist portrayals of African Americans, including mocking dialect, parodic lyrics, and the application of Black face paint; all designed to portray African Americans as othered subjects of humor and disrespect. Blackface was a dominant form for theatrical and musical performances for decades, both on stage and in private homes.", Title from item. First word is illegible., Date inferred from content and attire of the sitters., Photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Description of Blackface minstrelsy from Dorothy Berry, Descriptive Equity and Clarity around Blackface Minstrelsy in H(arvard) T(heater) C(ollection) Collections, 2021., Purchase 2004., RVCDC, 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: Paul, Dan E., photographer
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait photographs - organizations [P.2004.42]

Title: Group portrait of woman sitting in yard with two girls, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait of a stern older woman in a full-length dark dress sitting on a chair in a grassy yard. Standing behind her are two girls about thirteen and sixteen years old. The girls wear summer dresses and big bows in their hair. The older girl and the woman both wear 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. 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.128]

Title: Group portrait of two girls sitting in wooden rowboat, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait depicting two girls, one in a sailor dress and holding a paddle, the other with a bow in her hair, sitting in a rowboat near the shore., 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.2008.10.174]

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: Group of young men and women sitting on a loading dock or wharf, drinking, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait depicting three young men and two young women sitting on a loading dock or wharf, drinking, in Philadelphia. The men drape their arms over the shoulders of the women, and one couple holds hands. A little girl in a summer dress with a bow in her hair sits alone on the other side of a pillar next to the group., 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.2008.10.129]

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: Three women and infant sitting on doorstep, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait of three smiling young women sitting on a step in front of a door marked with graffiti in Philadelphia. The woman in the middle holds on her lap an infant about a year old wearing a full dress with lace-trimmed petticoat and leather shoes. The women wear long dark skirts, lace-up shoes, and jewelry., 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.2008.10.14]

Title: Two teenage men and two teenage women standing in front of window, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two teenage men and two teenage women standing in front of a window in Philadelphia. The two women wear knitted hats with roll-back brims, and one holds a chain purse in her hands. The young man in the back row wears a dress suit and a fedora. The young man in the front row wears a three-piece suit with a cap and roller skates., Kruxo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 231., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1917
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.4]

Title: 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: Two men on marble steps, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two men, both wearing caps, posing on marble steps in Philadelphia. The man on the right stands with his foot on one step and leans forward on his knee and holds a cigarette. In the background is a door and a bricked alley., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.36]

Title: Two workmen sitting on a stoop, one drinking out of a beer bottle, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two men in suits and their workman's caps sitting on a marble stoop in Philadelphia. The man on the right has his arm around the other's shoulders and drinks out of a beer bottle., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.57]

Title: Eight men and boys standing outside a brick building, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing eight men and boys wearing caps standing in front of a large window outside a brick building in Philadelphia. Many of the subjects wear suits and ties, and two men smoke cigars., 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.2008.10.94]

Title: Four men sitting in front of large doorway, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing four men sitting in front of a deteriorated, graffiti covered doorway in Philadelphia. Three of the men wear caps, and the fourth holds a cap in his hand., 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.8649.22]

Title: Five boys sitting on the wooden door of a sidewalk cellar entrance, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing five boys sitting on top of a wooden cellar door protruding from the sidewalk in Philadelphia. Three teenage boys, all wearing caps, one with a broken stick in his hand, sit behind two younger boys who wear white shirts and ties. The window behind them has a cast iron screen and a lace curtain., Ms. note on recto: Gene Reed, Midge Henry, Wm. Walls, Ms. note on verso: Joe Robinson, Jimmy Robinson, 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.8768.8]

Title: Two young women and young man on stoop, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait of two young women and a young man sitting on a door stoop in Philadelphia. The young woman in front wears a white blouse, a full-length plaid skirt, lace-up shoes, and a peaked cap. The young man behind her is dressed in a tie and suit and sits next to a young woman wearing a striped shirt, long skirt, and lace-up shoes., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 824 Sentner St., Crescentville, Phila., Pa., Kruxo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 231., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.8]

Title: Young man and two girls standing in front of brick wall and windows, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a young man wearing a suit and hat standing in between two girls in front of a brick wall and windows in Philadelphia. The girls wear ankle-length checked aprons. All three subjects are smiling., 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.8649.47]

Title: Two young men sitting on stoop in front of door in alley, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two young men, both smoking cigarettes, sitting on the wooden stoop of a doorway within an alley in Philadelphia. One man rests his arm around the shoulders of the other., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 824 Sentner St., Crescentville, Phila., Pa., Kruxo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 231., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.1]

Title: Two young men sitting on wooden stoop, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing two young men, possibly brothers, in shirtsleeves sitting on a wooden stoop in Philadelphia. The paint on the door in front of which they sit is peeled., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: John Frank Keith, 824 Sentner St., Crescentville, Phila., Pa., Kruxo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 231., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8649.46]

Title: 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: 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: Picnickers, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing about twenty men, women, and children sitting on wooden benches at wooden tables at a picnic in a wooded area in Philadelphia. One woman wears a bathing cap and a bathrobe, while jackets and hats are shown piled on a nearby table. In the background is a covered pavilion with chairs., 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.8768.11]

Title: Group portrait of young boys on steps, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait of fourteen boys sitting and standing on steps in front of a brick house in Philadelphia. Several of them wear peaked caps or knitted hats and a few wear wool coats. A boy in the back row smokes a pipe. A boy in the front wears stockings torn with holes., Ms. note on recto: Geo Sulli[van?], McGuigan, Chas Carrigan, Stosh, Theodore Kra[use?], Nedzie, Reddzie Morrow, Ms. note on verso: smithy, See new House, 2300, 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.8649.21]

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: 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]

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