Lobby card for The Flying Ace: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The card features two heart-shaped vignettes, one of Kathryn Boyd with Lawrence Criner, in a WWI uniform, and one of a Boyd with another man. At the top left corner is an image of a man parachuting from a burning plane. Across the bottom is [The Greatest Airplane Thriller Ever Produced / Six Smashing Reels / Thrills! Love! / Laughs! Mystery! / Produced by Norman Studios / Arlington, Fla. / All Colored Cast featuring / Lawrence Criner and Kathryn Boyd / Supported by / Boise De Legge, Harold Platts, Lions Daniel, George Colvin, Sam Jordan, Dr. R. L. Brown, and Steve Reynolds, (PEG).

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1926
• Distributed by: Norman Studios, American, 1920 - 1928
• Subject of: John L. Criner, American, 1898 - 1965
• Subject of: Kathryn Boyd, American, 1897 - 1965
• Created by: Boise De Legge, American
• Subject of: Harold Platts
• Subject of: Lions Daniels, American
• Subject of: George Colvin, American, born 1864
• Subject of: Sam Jordan
• Type: lobby cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Race films
• Topic: U.S. History, 1919-1933
• Topic: World War I
• Object number: 2013.118.105.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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