Cafe Society, New York 1943 Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) Courtesy Herbert Beazley Collection

Courtesy Herbert Beazley Collection

If you look carefully at the image you can see that the vast majority of the people are in uniforms

sitting on a toadstool

one of the most famous illustrators during Hollywood’s Golden Age

Ladies with rosy cheeks and beefy men think only of pleasure

Cafe Society, New York 1943 Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) Courtesy Herbert Beazley CollectionRestaurateur 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