Photograph of a group of women seated at the Rock Rest Tourist Home dinner table

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A color photograph of a group of women seated at a dinner table at the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The table has been set with creamware bread and butter plates topped with pats of butter, crystal water goblets, wine glasses, silverware, silver salt and pepper shakers, and an orange flower arrangement in a white vase at the center of the table. The six women are seated around the table with their hands in the laps; with two women on each long side of the table, and a woman at each end. The woman at the table end in the foreground is depicted with her back to the viewer. She wears a pink collared jacket and is looking towards the opposite end. The women on the left side of the photograph are depicted in profile. One is partially obscured with only her face visible.

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