AA-2026-1DE79D
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A man in a brown suit has dressed up to be photographed beside his new television cabinet, which sits on its own legs the way furniture was supposed to in the 1950s — because a television was furniture. The set's screen glows faintly green in the way early phosphor tubes did when powered on but showing nothing, and someone has placed a houseplant on top of it, because the cabinet had a flat surface and flat surfaces invited decoration. He stands with his hands clasped in the posture of a man next to something expensive, which is exactly what this was: a console television in the early 1950s cost roughly a month's wages for a working family, and you posed next to it the way a previous generation had posed next to a new car. The plant and the small figurine beside it would eventually migrate somewhere else in the room, once everyone agreed that putting things on top of the television was not, in practice, a good idea.
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Man in Sunday Suit with New Television Set, 1950s. 1950–1957. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-1DE79D. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/man-in-sunday-suit-with-new-television-set-1950s.
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year = {1950–1957},
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note = {Accession AA-2026-1DE79D},
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