Poster for Mattie Wilkes performance at Holliday Street Theater
date: label: Date
content: 1899-1905
name: label: Produced by
content: H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, American, 1896 - 1935
label: Subject of
content: Mattie Wilkes, American, 1875 - 1927
label: Subject of
content: George "Nash" Walker, American, 1873 - 1911
label: Subject of
content: Bert Williams, American, 1874 - 1922
label: Subject of
content: Williams and Walker Company, American, 1899 - 1909
label: Subject of
content: Hurtig & Seamon, American
notes: label: Description
content: A color poster featuring an illustration of the late 19th-early 20th century performer Mattie Wilkes. Wilkes is pictured in the center against a yellow background. She has a faint smile and is gazing off to one side. She is wearing an off-the-shoulder white, ruffled dress and small, white, round stud earrings and she has a pink flower in her hair. In blue, black and orange text across the top is [HURTIG & SEAMON PRESENT / WILLIAMS & WALKER / AND THEIR OWN BIG CO.]. Along the bottom of the depiction of Wilkes is written in black, grey, and yellow text [THE BEAUTIFUL / MATTIE WILKES / PHENOMENAL SOPRANO]. An addition on brown paper across the bottom of the poster is [HOLLIDAY ST. / THEATRE / WEEK COMMENCING / MON. MAT. NOV. 6 / MATINEES AS USUAL]. There is a small mark reading [The / H.C. Miner / Litho. Co. / N.Y.].
place: label: Place used
content: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Actors
label: Topic
content: Musical Theatre
label: Topic
content: Singers (Musicians)
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Time-based Media - Moving Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Stephen and Catherine Markardt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2013.137
objectType: label: Type
content: posters
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper, glass, wood, metal
label: Dimensions
content: Framed: 37 5/8 × 22 5/8 × 1 1/16 in. (95.6 × 57.5 × 2.7 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Poster (sight)): 27 3/4 × 20 1/2 in. (70.5 × 52.1 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Brown paper (sight)): 9 1/4 × 20 1/2 in. (23.5 × 52.1 cm)