On March 12, 1912, Juliette Low founded the Girls Scouts of America in Savannah, Georgia.These girls from the Smithsonian American Art Museum photography collection would make great scouts.
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On March 12, 1912, Juliette Low founded the Girls Scouts of America in Savannah, Georgia.These girls from the Smithsonian American Art Museum photography collection would make great scouts.
They were photographed by John Frank Keith, a Philadelphia bookkeeper who spent weekends making photographs of the children and families who lived in his working class neighborhood of Kensington in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Working in a documentary style… Keith posed members of the community—most often children—on the front stoops of their urban row houses. Keith's informal archive is more than a collection of individuals: it is an intimate portrait of a neighborhood in the 1920s.
Source: Merry A. Foresta. American Photographs: The First Century (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996).
Pictured: John Frank Keith, 1883–1947, Two Girls on a Stoop, Kensington, Philadelphia, about 1925, silver print on paper, 5 3/8 x 3 3/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment.