Harlem on the Prairie Movie Poster: Museum Object and Cultural History
Harlem on the Prairie Movie Poster: date made: 1937. Associated Name: Jeffries, Herb. Associated Name: Williams, Spencer.
The object in the museum catalogue
Poster for the 1937 film Harlem on the Prairie which was billed as the first “all-colored” western comedy musical. It starred Herb Jeffries, Spencer Williams, and Mantan Moreland. The film is a contrast to the inaccurate but popular Hollywood images of an all-white American frontier.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1937
- Associated Name: Jeffries, Herb
- Associated Name: Williams, Spencer
- maker: Morgan Litho., Corp.
- Object Name: poster
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: top section: 27 1/8 in x 41 in; 68.8975 cm x 104.14 cm
- Measurements: bottom section: 53 in x 41 in; 134.62 cm x 104.14 cm
- Measurements: overall: 80 1/8 in x 41 in; 203.5175 cm x 104.14 cm
- place made: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
- Subject: Motion Pictures
- ID Number: 2017.0059.04
- accession number: 2017.0059
- catalog number: 2017.0059.04
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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