Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: RAINER, Gottfried
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.003771

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Vienna Coffee House / 1 [circled]; handwritten: A; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: Gottfried Rainer [name handwritten] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; typed label: 1 – Ober Franz (Ober meaning headwaiter) is making out a bill. A / waiter in a coffee house is always called Herr Ober, since cafes / employ headwaiters only. Franz started out at the Alserhof as a / Piccolo (a waiter apprentice) in 1912 when the coffee house was / first opened.

Tagasauris Keywords: 5 or more people; Austria; Day or night unknown; Face; Female; Hat; Indoors; Invoice; Lifestyle and leisure; Newspaper; Pearl; Person; Research; Restaurant; Viennese coffee house; Waiting staff
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AUSTRIA / RESTAURANTS
Retouching: N