Lobby card for The Song of Freedom: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The lobby card depicts three men in the foreground with five men in the background. The men in the background are working with large barrels and cans, while the three men up front appear to be talking to each other. The first man on the left wearing blue overalls is sitting. The other two standing men are both in long sleeve shirts with their sleeves rolled up. One man's shirt is yellow while the other is red. In the left of the lobby card in the border are depictions of bodiless heads on spikes. The lobby card reads "Song of Freedom, Inc. / presents/ Paul Robeson in/ The Song of Freedom."

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1936
• Distributed by: Hammer Films, British, founded 1934
• Subject of: Paul Robeson, American, 1898 - 1976
• Type: lobby cards
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 10 1/16 × 13 in. (25.6 × 33 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 11 1/16 × 14 in. (28.1 × 35.6 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Africa
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Opera (Music)
• Topic: Race films
• Object number: 2013.118.139.2
• 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.