Dinner Is Served in the Dining Car

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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 a segregated train’s dining car with white seated passengers eating. The passengers are dressed formally and the tables have tablecloths and flowers on them. Two Pullman Porters wearing white jackets are standing in the middle of the car on either side of the center aisle. Below the photograph in black type at the bottom left corner is “15.” Black type below the photograph at bottom center reads “Dinner Is Served in the Dining Car.” The back of the photograph is blank.

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