Letter regarding the Birth of a Race Photoplay Corporation: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A letter from the Securities Realization Company regarding potential legal action against the Birth of a Race Photoplay Corporation for what the letter refers to as "nothing more or less than a gigantic swindling promotion" in its sale of stock. Letter is a single sheet folded once. Printed black ink on white paper. The bottom third of the second page of the letter is a form for tearing away and sending back to the company - perforation is completely torn. There are no marks on the back.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1922
• Created by: Securities Realization Company, American, born 1918
• Subject of: Birth of a Race Photoplay Corporation, American, founded 1916
• Type: correspondence
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W (Closed): 11 1/16 × 8 9/16 in. (28.1 × 21.7 cm)
• Place depicted: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Black Enterprise
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Correspondence
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Finance
• Object number: 2019.28.26.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The displayed image also has an explicit CC0 designation. The underlying object's rights statement is: Public domain Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.