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Image Not Available for Manicure your nails prior to dinner. Use the fork if necessary. A lady always notices clean nails.
Manicure your nails prior to dinner. Use the fork if necessary. A lady always notices clean nails.
Image Not Available for Manicure your nails prior to dinner. Use the fork if necessary. A lady always notices clean nails.

Manicure your nails prior to dinner. Use the fork if necessary. A lady always notices clean nails.

Creator Fritz Eschen (German, 1900 - 1954)
Date1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 12.1 x 16.6 cm (4 3/4 x 6 9/16 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2002
Category
  • Photographs
Object number2002/5240
LocationNot currently on display

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Image Not Available for Emphasize statements using your fork and knife. Also, speak with your cigarette in your mouth.
Emphasize statements using your fork and knife. Also, speak with your cigarette in your mouth.
Fritz Eschen
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for Slurp your soup. Cough in the direction of your dinner companion with your mouth full.
Slurp your soup. Cough in the direction of your dinner companion with your mouth full.
Fritz Eschen
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for At the end of the meal, stroke the chin of your dinner companion while pouring your coffee.
At the end of the meal, stroke the chin of your dinner companion while pouring your coffee.
Fritz Eschen
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for Getting meat stuck in your teeth is embarrassing, but how piquant to hunt out the small troublemaker with a cultivated forefinger and remove it in front of your dinner companion.
Getting meat stuck in your teeth is embarrassing, but how piquant to hunt out the small troublemaker with a cultivated forefinger and remove it in front of your dinner companion.
Fritz Eschen
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for The town around the congressional place is made from bamboo cane. No nail is used because nails from Europe have not been introduced.
The town around the congressional place is made from bamboo cane. No nail is used because nails from Europe have not been introduced.
Deutscher Verlag
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for A woman having her nails done.
A woman having her nails done.
Schostal
unknown
Photograph
Image Not Available for Time is money - especially in the United States. Hence the shoes are being cleaned during the hair-cut and the nails are manicured.
Time is money - especially in the United States. Hence the shoes are being cleaned during the hair-cut and the nails are manicured.
Presse-Photo
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for A young ballerina buffs her nails in the dressing room.
A young ballerina buffs her nails in the dressing room.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for NYC [Woman biting nails]
NYC [Woman biting nails]
Lutz Dille
c. 1959
Photograph
Image Not Available for With a spoon, one rarely retrieves the compote sauce; it is best to lick the plate clean.
With a spoon, one rarely retrieves the compote sauce; it is best to lick the plate clean.
Fritz Eschen
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for [Man and woman hugging outdoors, woman had long red nails and is holding polaroids]
[Man and woman hugging outdoors, woman had long red nails and is holding polaroids]
Zun Lee
1960s-1990s
Photograph
Image Not Available for [Woman with long red nails and a black and gold necklace resting her chin on her hand and smiling]
[Woman with long red nails and a black and gold necklace resting her chin on her hand and smiling]
Zun Lee
1986-1996
Photograph
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