Press Release from the Lincoln Motion Picture Company: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A press release from the Lincoln Motion Picture Company. The black ink on white paper article gives information about the Lincoln Motion Picture Company and some of the films that is has produced as well as some of the actors associated with the company. The back of the press release is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: January 5, 1917
• Published by: St. Louis Argus, American, founded 1912
• Subject of: Lincoln Motion Picture Company, American, 1916 - 1921
• Subject of: Noble M. Johnson, American, 1881 - 1979
• Subject of: Beulah Hall, American, 1899 - 1952
• Type: press releases
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 8 × 5 3/4 in. (20.3 × 14.6 cm)
• Place depicted: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Black Press
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Race films
• Object number: 2014.153.6.1
• 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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