Movie Poster advertising Bill Pickett in <i>The Bull-Dogger</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1921
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Movie poster mounted on canvas advertising the 1922 silent western film <i>The Bull-Dogger</i> starring Bill Pickett. Pickett was an African-American rodeo cowboy credited with invented bulldogging, or steer wrestling. He appeared with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show under the name “The Dusky Demon,” and he was the first black cowboy to be inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1971, forty years after his death.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Motion Pictures
label: web subject
content: Entertainment
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Rodeo
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: African American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Movies
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content: Movie Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0879.02
label: accession number
content: 1985.0879
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0879.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: poster, rodeo
label: Object Name
content: poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: canvas (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 in x 41 in; 68.58 cm x 104.14 cm