AA-2026-FF48EB
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A man in a dark fedora, dress shirt, and tie stands in a backyard beside a boy in white slacks, both paused near a picnic table set with cups and drinks while a folding lawn chair sits empty nearby. In the background, children play on a swing set and a woman in a turquoise dress watches them, the whole scene arranged with the casual formality of a 1950s family occasion where men wore hats and ties to their own backyards. The fedora tells the whole story: this is a man who dressed for the office every weekday and saw no compelling reason to change his standards on a Saturday. The folding aluminum lawn chair beside him represents the decade's most optimistic consumer promise — that leisure had finally been industrialized and made portable — even though nobody at this gathering appears to be sitting down. The boy beside him stands at the precise age when he would soon decide that wearing a tie to a cookout was his father's problem, not his.
Visually related — by likeness
Backyard Gathering, Father and Son, 1950s. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-FF48EB. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/backyard-gathering-father-and-son-1950s.
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title = {Backyard Gathering, Father and Son, 1950s},
year = {1950–1959},
howpublished = {Archive \& Atlas, Historical Image Library},
note = {Accession AA-2026-FF48EB},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/backyard-gathering-father-and-son-1950s}
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