Poster advertising Fats Waller's performance at Empire Theatre at Finsbury Park: Museum Object and Cultural History
Poster advertising Fats Waller's performance at Empire Theatre at Finsbury Park: Date: 1938. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: Fats Waller, American, 1904 - 1943.
The object in the museum catalogue
A poster for an appearance of "Fats" Waller in London at the Empire Theatre at Finsbury Park, August 29th, 1938. The poster is extra-long printed in red and blue on off-white paper.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1938
- Created by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Fats Waller, American, 1904 - 1943
- Type: posters
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 30 x 10 in. (76.2 x 25.4 cm)
- Place depicted: London, England, Europe
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Object number: 2011.57.41.1
- 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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