Photograph of the New York production cast for Green Pastures
date: label: Date
content: 1932
name: label: Photograph by
content: Rocky Mt. Photo Co., American
notes: label: Description
content: Black and white photograph (a), with sleeve (b), of the entire all-black NY cast of the production of “Green Pastures,” taken in Denver. Landscape orientation, elongated. Depicts entire cast of "Green Pastures”, men, women, and children in formal dress attire in front of the Broadway Theatre in Denver Colorado. Some are sitting in the front row, or kneeling, while most are standing in two lines in the background. In the background, to the left, is the Hotel Cosmopolitan Coffee Shoppe glass store front, in the center is the archway entrance to the Broadway Theatre with a banner that reads "THE REWARD OF TWO YEARS WAITING/ "THE GREEN PASTURES"/ COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEW YORK PRODUCTION./ CAST and "HEAVENLY CHOIR" in the center with "AT LAST!" in the top left hand corner, "ONE/ WEEK ONLY/ Commencing Monday/ JULY 25" in the bottom left hand corner, and "Matinees/ Wednesday/ and Saturday/ at 2:20 Sharp" in the bottom right hand corner, all below the neon lights reading "N.Y. CAST." On the right, is the store from for Eugene M. Ardelt Flowers, with an elaborate awning. Along the bottom of the photograph, in white type, reads "MEMBERS OF THE CAST AND CREW AND HEAVENLY CHOIR OF THE GREEN PASTURES COMPANY - BRAODWAY THEATRE, DENVER COLORADO JULY 25-30, 1932" with "Rocky Mt. Photo Co./ 3257 - DENVER" in white type in the bottom right hand corner. Entire photograph is bordered by white. On reverse, entire back is covered with tape (masking tape underneath large strips of yellow tape). Yellow tape has three long horizontal pieces along the back of the photograph, with seven shorter vertical pieces laid perpendicular.
label: Description
content: The sleeve (b) is a long flat rectangular piece of cardboard with remnants of old masking tape at intervals. There are extensive handwritten notes along the length of the sleeve. Please see Notes, Text Entries field for full text.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Denver, Colorado, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Drama (Theatre)
label: Topic
content: Identity
label: Topic
content: Religion
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gifted with pride from Ellen Brooks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.167.2ab
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper with cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 10 × 31 15/16 in. (25.4 × 81.1 cm)