Movie Poster advertising Bill Pickett in The Bull-Dogger: Museum Object and Cultural History
Movie Poster advertising Bill Pickett in The Bull-Dogger: date made: 1921. Object Name: poster, rodeo. Object Name: poster.
The object in the museum catalogue
Movie poster mounted on canvas advertising the 1922 silent western film The Bull-Dogger starring Bill Pickett. Pickett was an African-American rodeo cowboy credited with invented bulldogging, or steer wrestling. He appeared with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show under the name “The Dusky Demon,” and he was the first black cowboy to be inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1971, forty years after his death.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1921
- Object Name: poster, rodeo
- Object Name: poster
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Physical Description: canvas (overall material)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 27 in x 41 in; 68.58 cm x 104.14 cm
- web subject: Motion Pictures
- web subject: Entertainment
- web subject: Sports
- name of sport: Rodeo
- level of sport: Professional
- web subject: African American
- ID Number: 1985.0879.02
- accession number: 1985.0879
- catalog number: 1985.0879.02
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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