Museum object · theater programs
Program for a production by The Gilpin Players
1934
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
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Original program for a 1934 production by the Gilpin Players at The Karamu Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. Program consists of black typed text on a single folded sheet of tan paper. The front cover reads [THE GILPIN PLAYERS / present / Two Plays / GOD’S OWN / A Comedy-satire in One Act / by Isadora Bennett / and / SWAMP MUD / A Play in Three Scenes / by Harold Courlander / THE KARAMU THEATRE]”. The inside of the program lists the cast of the two plays and on the back cover is an announcement of an art exhibit in an adjacent room in the theatre.
- Catalog date
- 1934
- Recorded places
- Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Actors; Comedy (Theatre); Drama (Theatre); Theatre; Theatre companies
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Catalog reference: 2011.84.1
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection