Museum object · Memorabilia and Ephemera - Advertisements
Lobby card for Imitation of Life
1949
United States, North and Central America
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 Imitation of Life. The lobby card features a color image of a still from the film. There is a woman on the proper right side with wavy brown hair and a blue top with green pants. She is sitting in profile facing the proper left side. Her left hand is up to her mouth and her right arm is resting on her lap. There is another woman on the proper left side of the image. She has curly hair and is wearing a brimmed hat, pearl earrings, a brown dress, gloves, and a fur stole. There is a white trim on the proper right side of the image and it is abstract in shape. The proper right side of the image contains a yellow background with a colored drawing of two characters from the film. The woman on the proper right has wavy hair and sad eyes and is larger in size.
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Catalog reference: 2013.118.115.2
