This picture is illustrated on page 26 of the 1912 Picture Sales Catalog and on page 471 of the 1915 Expansible Sales Catalog.

This picture was taken in Wallace Nutting's Southbury, CT home he called "Nuttinghame." When he sold this house in 1912, the retired banker who had already made a deposit and was assured that he "owned" the house said, "I don't mind telling you that wild horses could not have pulled me out of this room."

Wallace Nutting also wrote: "Afternoon Tea" represents the home-room in my former residence. It was two hundred years old, or reputed to be. The table was pulled out of a waste heap. It is thoroughly good of the class and undoubtedly colonial in period. The cupboards over the fireplace are secured by the taper of the chimney, and they are found in every one of the rooms in the same position, circling around the chimney."

Note that in this photograph the ceiling beams are exposed while in other photographs taken in this room the ceiling is plastered. Wallace Nutting explains: "The ceiling of the home-room was dilapidated plaster. This was removed and the beams thus exposed were cased in and painted white, thus giving us a little more head space and greatly enhancing the charm of the room."