Cafe Society, New York 1943 Sizes:A2 (420x594mm) Archival Print (Unframed) off Cape Finisterre

off Cape Finisterre

J Lyons was founded in London in 1894 and became a major restaurant and food conglomerate

brown and sugary doughnuts to emerge hot from the machines

is from the beginning of the 20th century and is in the Art Nouveau style

deviled crabs

Cafe Society, New York 1943 Sizes:A2 (420x594mm) Archival Print (Unframed) off Cape FinisterreRestaurateur Barney Josephson already owned the trailblazing Cafe Society in Greenwich Village the interracial nightclub where black and white musicians performed for mixed audiences in the 1930s and 40s. The nightclub was also the scene of Billie Holidays first public performance of Strange Fruit, the haunting protest song about black lynchings in the South. Politically astute and an ardent supporter of civil rights, Josephson instructed the great