Say "Hello" to These Three Damsels

and you need to greet only seven more people to participate in World Hello Day!

By greeting ten people today, you can demonstrate the importance of personal communication for preserving peace.

Photographer John Frank Keith promoted a kind of personal communication when he took photos in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. Keith's informal archive is more than a collection of individuals: it is an intimate portrait of a neighborhood in the 1920s. Working in a documentary style reminiscent of Lewis Hine, but without Hine's social activism, Keith posed members of the community—usually children—on the front stoops of their urban row houses.

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, Three Girls, Kensington, Philadelphia, about 1925, silver print on paper, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 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.