Lobby card for Lost Boundaries: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This lobby card for Lost Boundaries has a rectangular image in the upper right quadrant. It depicts a man in the image looking down at his hands. Above him are three heads looking in different directions. Within the picture on the lobby card in the bottom left corner it reads "A/ drama of/ real life from/ The Readers Digest/ 20 Pages That Shocked the World!" Outside of the image and in the left border of the lobby card it reads "For/Twenty/Tormenting/ Years/ They/ Lived/ A/ Lie!/ Lost/ Boundaries" On the back of the lobby card in the bottom left hand corner it reads "Property of N.S.S. Corp./ May be distributed only/ Poster companies/ Licensed by N.S.S/ 12."

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1949
• Distributed by: Louis de Rochemont Associates, American, founded 1947
• Subject of: Louis De Rochemont, American, 1899 - 1978
• Subject of: Beatrice Pearson, American, 1920 - 1986
• Subject of: Melchor Gaston Ferrer, American, 1917 - 2008
• Subject of: Alfred L. Werker, American, 1896 - 1975
• Type: lobby cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 10 7/8 × 13 7/8 in. (27.6 × 35.3 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Colorism
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Identity
• Topic: Independent films
• Topic: U.S. History, 1945-1953
• Object number: 2013.118.123.1
• 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

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