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Title	Workingmen's restaurant, 129 Market Street, Hartford.
Creator	Curtis, H. C.
Place	129 Market Street (Hartford, Conn.)
Topic	Restaurants -- Employees African American men
Theme	Lifestyle Infrastructure Diversity
Description	Interior with vertical wood paneling and columns down the center of the room. Men sit eating at tables at the left. Some have beards or mustaches. Cruets, bowls and plates are on the tables. An African-American man in a white jacket waits on the table in the foreground. A second African-American man carrying a tray is at the right. A cast iron stove with a stovepipe is in the center of the room. Men and women sit reading newspapers at the right. One man wears a top hat. Gas fixtures hang from the ceiling. Pictures, apparently framed oil paintings, hang from the wall on wires. The picture on the right depicts a fox with a pigeon. A clock is on the back wall above a table with food on it. Letterpress text beneath image: "Connecticut - Workingmen's Restaurant, conducted by the Ladies of Hartford. - From a Sketch by H.C. Curtis."<br>
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. <br>Probably from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. <br>The management committee of the Workingmen's Restaurant consisted of Mrs. Frank Cheney, Miss Sarah Dunham, and Miss Hammersley. Mr. Frank Cheney and Mr. Cornelius Dunham were the advisory committee. <br>
Date created	1872.
Physical format	1 print: : wood engraving ; 14 x 26 cm.<br>
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number X.1960.24.0<br>File name 0521 img0072.pcd<br>
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society.
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
Sub-collection	Prints

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