Outerbridge was a master of the carbro print, an exceptionally permanent full-color photographic print made by transferring yellow, magenta, and cyan layers of pigment to a final receiving sheet. In the 1930s, he used this difficult and time-consuming process to make photographs of the female nude, images that his contemporaries considered more lifelike in their color than any previous photographs. The carbro process was also ideally suited to preparing color images for the printing press, and this scene—now charmingly retro—was intended for an Eight O'Clock Coffee advertisement.