AA-2026-6BC0F2
On the image
A woman in her twenties stands beside an early television console in a residential interior, wearing a lavender blouse and blue plaid skirt, her posture suggesting she has been positioned for the photograph rather than caught in the midst of anything. The set itself is a substantial wooden cabinet model with a small circular screen, the kind that required furniture arrangement around it and represented a major household investment. Behind her, louvered shutters cover the windows in the style of the period, and patterned curtains with yellow floral motifs frame the room. A potted plant and decorative objects sit atop the television console. She looks toward the camera with the composed expression of someone demonstrating a possession, which was precisely the point of such pictures in the 1950s—to document that this family owned a television, that they had arrived at the standard of living that made this expensive piece of equipment an ordinary part of domestic life. What she is actually doing is standing still and smiling to prove she owns it.
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Woman with Television Set, 1950s American Home. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-6BC0F2. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/woman-with-television-set-1950s-american-home.
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title = {Woman with Television Set, 1950s American Home},
year = {1950–1959},
howpublished = {Archive \& Atlas, Historical Image Library},
note = {Accession AA-2026-6BC0F2},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/woman-with-television-set-1950s-american-home}
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