Group Listening to Radio at Hotel Lexington, New York City, 1934

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1934-04-24
10 x 8 x 0 in.

8x10 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on April 24, 1934. Image of group listening to radio at Hotel Lexington on 48th and Lexington Ave., NYC. Visible in image: two women, one sitting in arm chair wearing fur-lined jacket over her dress and a hat tipped to the side and the other woman standing up wearing a knit cap and wool checked coat over her dress listen as a gentleman in a three piece suit and flower in his lapel and spats on his shoes turns the knob on a wall-mounted speaker, room decorated with floral tree wallpaper and floral carpet, side table and ashtray on pedestal set up with Asian lettering lamp on tabletop. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Typed on original negative sleeve: “44017 4/24/34 / 2302-3 / Hotel Lex-48th St & Lex Ave, City / Photo of group listening to radio / at Hotel“ and handwritten: "neg loaned McGraff 10/19/38 / returned 10/24/38".

1984.187.44017

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection