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]