Lobby card for To Sir, with Love: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A color lobby card from the film To Sir, With Love featuring an image of Sidney Poitier pouring a drink while talking to Judy Geeson and Christian Roberts. A white rectangle at the bottom left of the contains the title, billing and production information for the film in blue and pink text. Beneath the image at the bottom left is a copyright notice [Copyright 1967 Columbia Pictures Corporation] and at the bottom right is a licensing notice from National Screen Service Corp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1967
• Created by: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., founded 1919
• Distributed by: National Screen Service, American, 1920 - 2000
• Subject of: Sidney Poitier, Bahamian American, 1927 - 2022
• Subject of: Judy Geeson, English, founded 1948
• Subject of: Christian Roberts, English
• Type: lobby cards
• Medium: paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: East End, London, England, Europe
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: Youth
• Object number: 2012.152.1247
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dow B. Ellis
• 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 underlying object's rights statement is: © 1967 Columbia Pictures Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.