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Photographs of illustrations of scenes from The Green pastures
Title
[Photographs of illustrations of scenes from The Green pastures].
Production
[Los Angeles, California], [circa 1936]
Physical Description
25 photographs : black and white prints ; 21 x 26 cm
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Place and date of creation supplied by cataloger.
Some photographs have printed caption: ""The Green Pastures" a fable by Marc Connelly - A Warner Bros. Production Corporation Picture".
Captions in English.
Provenance
Purchased from Walter Reuben, Inc. on the George B. Alvord Fund, 2012.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
The Green Pastures is a 1936 motion picture based on the 1930 play by Marc Connelly. The film depicts stories from the Old Testament, told through the perspective of rural African Americans.
Summary
25 photographs of illustrations of scenes from the motion picture The Green Pastures, taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1936. Images depict scenes from the film and were used to create promotional material. Six illustrations are signed by Harold Wilson Cox; six are signed by Will Graven; and 13 are by an unidentified illustrator.
Variant and related titles
Green pastures (Motion picture : 1936)
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 28, 2021
References
Photographs of Illustrations of Scenes from The Green Pastures. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Photographs of Illustrations of Scenes from The Green Pastures. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Genre/Form
Gelatin silver prints.
Photographs.
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