Photograph of six people socializing on the lawn of the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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A black-and-white photograph of six people socializing on the lawn of the Rock Rest Tourist Home. Five women and one man are arranged in a semi-circle. The two women on the far-left side of the image are sitting in front of an open, striped, lawn umbrella with fringe. The woman on the far left is seated on a wooden, spindle back chair. Her body is turned towards the viewer and she is looking down at a magazine in her lap. She is wearing a light-toned dress and a shrug. Next to her is a woman in a vertical kneeling position, with one upraised knee. She kneels behind an Adirondack chair and rests her proper left hand on the armrest and her proper right arm is akimbo. She is wearing a light-toned patterned dress. At the center of the image is a woman partially reclined in an Adirondack chair.

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