Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Preparing Dinner in the Dining Car Kitchen
mid 20th century
Smithsonian NMAAHC collection
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A gelatin silver print depicting a black and white image of three men working in the kitchen of train car. They are wearing white jackets, white pants and chef hats. Two of the men are standing back to back in the center of the photograph. The man on the left is stirring food in a pot while the man on the right is washing dishes. The third man is in the background and is facing the left side of the photograph. Below the image in the bottom left corner in black type is “16.” Below the image at the bottom center of the print in black type is “Preparing Dinner in the Dining Car Kitchen.”
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Catalog reference: 2014.63.63.37
