Program for The Egg & I: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A bi-fold program for the musical comedy The Egg & I, printed in black ink on off-white paper. The front cover has text that reads “The EGG & I.” Below the text in black ink is a small circle design that consists of central dot with eight radiating lines. There are triangles in between the radiating lines, each with a small dot at the end. At the bottom of the page is [JAN HUS AUDITORIUM / 351 EAST 74TH STREET NEW YORK CITY]. The inside pages have performance and production information on one side and the cast list on the other. The back cover has a list of scenes and musical numbers, in two acts.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1958
• Created by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Betty MacDonald, American, 1907 - 1958
• Subject of: Edmund Cambridge, American, 1920 - 2001
• Subject of: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011
• Owned by: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011
• Type: programs
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (closed): 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (21.6 × 14 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (open): 8 1/2 × 10 15/16 in. (21.6 × 27.8 cm)
• Place used: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Comedy (Theatre)
• Topic: Musical Theatre
• Topic: Television
• Object number: 2013.188.32
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of William and James Thomas and family in memory of Clarice Taylor
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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