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Lobby card for The Duke Is Tops

1938

United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Lobby card for "The Duke Is Tops". The lobby card features a large color image of three men. The man on the far proper right side is wearing a white collared shirt, a tan suit jacket and pants, and a red stripe necktie. He is turned towards the proper left side and is looking at the other two men. The man in the center is Ralph Cooper. He is sitting on a desk with his hands folded in his lap. He us wearing a white collared shirt, a navy suit jacket and pants, a tan brimmed hat with a black ribbon around it, a pink brooch, a white pocket square, and a patterned necktie. The man to his proper left is Monte Hawley, sitting on the edge of the desk and turned to face Cooper. His right hand is gesturing in the direction of Cooper and his left hand resting on his right thigh.

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Catalog reference: 2013.118.103

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