Photograph of the interior of a New York restaurant
date: label: Date
content: July 1935
name: label: Photograph by
content: James Van Der Zee, American, 1886 - 1983
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
notes: label: Description
content: This gelatin silver print depicts a black and white image of the interior of a New York restaurant. The restaurant has booths along both walls on the left and right and a row of tables in between. All of the tables are covered in checkered table clothes and include napkin dispensers, ketchup bottles and salt and pepper shakers. A broadside for the Apollo Theater is hanging on the rear wall above a poster advertisement for Lido Pool and next to a list of Cocktails served at the restaurant. To the right of this list is a broadside for the Negro National League game between the New York Cubans and the Chicago Giants. There are three chandeliers hanging above the four tables in the center of the restaurant. The back of the photograph has a blue stamp that reads [GG PHOTO STUDIO / 272 LENOX AVE / NEW YORK NY] in the center. The number [JVC-14493] is written along the bottom edge on the back of the photograph. The photograph is adhered to a matboard.
place: label: Place depicted
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Cooking and dining
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Urban life
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: Harlem Renaissance (New Negro Movement)
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Julia J. Norrell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.181.3
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 7 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (19.4 × 24.4 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Matboard): 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)