Photograph of the New York production cast for Green Pastures

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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!

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