Diners smile at the photographer

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Repository

LaBudde Special Collections

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Description

An unidentified group of three African American men and two African American women smile as they share a meal inside an unidentified diner. Two of the men sit on either side of a woman on the left side of the photograph. The woman and the man to her left hold cigarettes in their right hands. At the end of the "U"-shaped counter another woman sits with a man leaning over her left shoulder to smile at the photographer. He wears an envelope-style hat. There are drinking glasses, dishes, and condiment holders on the counter. The photograph is taken through two large elephant ear leaves that match the wall painting behind the patrons of a bird cage in among elephant ear plants and palms.

Member of

Dolores Hobley Collection

Language English

Date Published

1939

1941

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Subject, Old

African American men

African American women

Diners (Restaurants)

Colocasia

Cigarette smokers

Time Period

1931-1940

1941-1950

Notes

No date; likely circa 1940
, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original

1 photograph : black and white print ; 9 x 11 cm

Filename

umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-004.tif

Genres

Gelatin silver prints

Black & white photographs

Group portraits

Type

photographs