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]