Women at a Park Picnic Table, 1950s

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Women at a Park Picnic Table, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1955

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Four women sit and stand around a portable table in a public park, each wearing a printed cotton day dress or blouse typical of the early 1950s, each with the hair and glasses of the era styled with the particular confidence of women who believed this was how one dressed to leave the house. One woman holds what appears to be a small typewriter on her lap. The portable typewriter was then a consumer object—a machine of office and aspiration—and she has brought it to a park picnic as casually as another woman might bring a sandwich. She sits in a folding metal chair beneath tall oaks, ready to work or perhaps to demonstrate competence, in the American outdoors on a sunny afternoon when a public park was still somewhere a woman with a typewriter could sit without explanation. The scene suggests no urgency, no destination, only the ordinary midcentury assumption that productivity and leisure could occupy the same canvas chair.

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