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The bar at the Palm Tavern, a Negro restaurant on 47th Street
Date | April 1941 |
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Location | Chicago Illinois United States |
Dimensions | Image: 10 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. (26 x 34.3 cm) Paper: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm) |
Print medium | Photo-Gelatin silver |
James "Genial Jim" Knight, a Pullman porter turned businessman and policy king, was owner of Bronzeville's Palm Tavern. In the early 1930's, Knight was elected the first "mayor of Bronzeville" - a tradition that continued for three decades and that has been recently revived. With its spotless white tablecloths, gloved waiters, and posh pseudo-tropical setting, the Palm Tavern was a meeting place for black Chicago's political, professional, and artistic elite.
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Museum Purchase, 2003
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Accession No. 117.2003