Playbill for Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Playbill for Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. White background with blue box at top; white box below with photograph of a woman with a flower in her hair. The photograph is divided into quadrants with the bottom left quadrant replaced with a photograph of the woman singing. [PLAYBILL/WESTSIDE ARTS THEATRE/UPSTAIRS/LADY DAY/AT EMERSON'S/BAR & GRILL] White circular sticker on back, handwritten 1986.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1986
• Published by: Playbill, American, founded 1884
• Subject of: Billie Holiday, American, 1915 - 1959
• Subject of: Lonette McKee, American, born 1954
• Subject of: Danny Holgate
• Subject of: Rudy Stevenson, American, 1929 - 2010
• Subject of: David Jackson
• Type: theater programs
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 8 3/8 x 5 5/8 in. (21.3 x 14.3 cm)
• Place used: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Drama (Theatre)
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Object number: 2011.45.52
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Kayla Deigh Owens
• 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: Playbill used by permission. All rights reserved, Playbill Inc Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.