Indoor portrait of a scene from a play: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black-and-white photograph of a man and two women. The man, right, is wearing a suit and bow tie with a moustache. He is holding a bottle of liquid. The woman in the center is sitting in a chair with a fork in her hand approaching her mouth and a glass in the other hand. A plate rests in her lap. She is wearing a light dress with open toed heels. There is a table to her left and an identical chair. The other woman has her left hand resting on this chair as she stands behind it. She has a glass in her right hand and is wearing a floral dress, dark heels and a necklace.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1948 - 1970s
• Photograph by: Rev. Henry Clay Anderson, American, 1911 - 1998
• Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
• Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Medium: photographic gelatin and silver on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
• Place made: Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Theatre
• Object number: 2012.137.7.23
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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