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[Relationship] – Antique Wall Art

[Relationship] — historic photograph
[Relationship]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The title "Relationship" points to the picture's central idea: the subject is the working connection between patrons and the waiters who serve them, a theme that a 1940 New York photographer could find in any busy dining room. The record dates the scene to 1940 and lists it as a gelatin silver print, a process that was the standard for black-and-white photography through the mid-twentieth century and gave images their fine tonal range. New York restaurants of that period drew crowds from every social class, so a picture like this offers a glimpse of urban social life just before the United States entered the Second World War.

Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
Notes1944
SubjectsCouples--New York (State)--New York--1940. Waiters--New York (State)--New York--1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,293 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177089

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