Program for the the play Nat Turner: Museum Object and Cultural History
Program for the the play Nat Turner: Date: 1950-1951. Created by: People's Drama, Inc., American, founded 1949. Subject of: Eugene V. Frankel, American, 1919 - 2005.
The object in the museum catalogue
This is a single sheet program printed in black ink on white paper. Text at the top reads [PEOPLE’S DRAMA, INC. / presents / NAT TURNER / by Paul Peters / DIRECTED BY GENE FRANKEL]. Below this is cast information in two columns. The page is divided in two by a row of typed stars. Below the stars are a list of the Acts and Scenes. The program has creases both horizontally and vertically, with discoloration along the creases. The bottom right corner is bent under. There is a medium-sized tear in the page edge near the bottom right corner.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1950-1951
- Created by: People's Drama, Inc., American, founded 1949
- Subject of: Eugene V. Frankel, American, 1919 - 2005
- Subject of: Paul Peters, American
- Subject of: Nat Turner, American, 1800 - 1831
- Owned by: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011
- Type: programs
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 13 15/16 × 8 7/16 in. (35.4 × 21.5 cm)
- Place used: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Drama (Theatre)
- Topic: Slavery
- Topic: Theatre
- Topic: Theatre companies
- Topic: U.S. History, 1815-1861
- Topic: U.S. History, 1945-1953
- Object number: 2013.188.20
- 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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