Program for a production by The Gilpin Players: Museum Object and Cultural History
Program for a production by The Gilpin Players: Date: 1934. Created by: Karamu House, American, founded 1915. Subject of: Gilpin Players, American, founded 1922.
The object in the museum catalogue
Original program for a 1934 production by the Gilpin Players at The Karamu Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. Program consists of black typed text on a single folded sheet of tan paper. The front cover reads [THE GILPIN PLAYERS / present / Two Plays / GOD’S OWN / A Comedy-satire in One Act / by Isadora Bennett / and / SWAMP MUD / A Play in Three Scenes / by Harold Courlander / THE KARAMU THEATRE]”. The inside of the program lists the cast of the two plays and on the back cover is an announcement of an art exhibit in an adjacent room in the theatre.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1934
- Created by: Karamu House, American, founded 1915
- Subject of: Gilpin Players, American, founded 1922
- Subject of: Harold Courlander, American, 1908 - 1996
- Type: theater programs
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.2 cm)
- Place made: Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Comedy (Theatre)
- Topic: Drama (Theatre)
- Topic: Theatre
- Topic: Theatre companies
- Object number: 2011.84.1
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Michael Courlander.
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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