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Chicken salad and oysters after the matinee – Historic Print

Chicken salad and oysters after the matinee, c1901. — historic photograph
Chicken salad and oysters after the matinee, c1901.. 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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Step back in time with Chicken salad and oysters after the matinee, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Two women sit down to chicken salad and oysters after an afternoon performance, a scene that the title places in the leisure habits of turn-of-the-century urban life. The photoprint was made by William H. Rau, a Philadelphia photographer who produced many staged genre studies of this kind, and it is cataloged under the tag "Glamour," suggesting the image was meant to show fashionable dress and manners. Matinees and restaurant lunches like these were popular outings for middle-class women of the period, and the picture offers a glimpse of that social ritual. The record's details, including its date of about 1901, come from the caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1901.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by William H. Rau. No. A1031. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women; Ph. Ind.; Glamour.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,030 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-155967

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