Program for the Shearer Players' production of Angel Street: Museum Object and Cultural History
Program for the Shearer Players' production of Angel Street: Date: 1951. Created by: Shearer Players, American, founded 1946. Subject of: Elizabeth Shearer White, American, died 1993.
The object in the museum catalogue
A program for the play "Angel Street" starring the Shearer Players and headlined by Liz White consisting of black printed text on white paper. The show's original name is "Gas Light" but is known in the United States as "Angel Street."
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1951
- Created by: Shearer Players, American, founded 1946
- Subject of: Elizabeth Shearer White, American, died 1993
- Type: programs
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 5 x 7 1/2 in. (12.7 x 19.1 cm)
- Place used: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Amusements
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Theatre
- Topic: Theatre companies
- Object number: 2012.33.13
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Olive Tomlinson in memory of William and Olive Bowles
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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