Spring is here and love is in the air - today we're paying a visit to a new happy couple, Mr. and Mrs. MacCune.
This photograph, captured on this date, March 21, in 1921 shows the newlyweds at their place of work, in front of a desk decorated by their coworkers in recognition of their marriage.
This photograph is from Hagley Library’s collection of Westinghouse Electric Corporation Steam Division photographs (Accession 1969.170), which contains a number of similar examples of decorated desks documented by staff photographer Charles Yessel (1877-1953) for the company’s house publication, Machine News. These images offer interesting insights regarding workplace culture, popular ideas about marriage, and gender in the 1920s and 1930s.
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