poster: Museum Object and Cultural History
poster: date made: 1970s. Object Name: Poster. Physical Description: paper (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
A poster from a Dinner Theatre in 1976. The title character, Purlie Victorious Judson, is a traveling preacher who returns to his small hometown in Georgia to save the community's church and emancipate cotton workers on the local plantation.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1970s
- Object Name: Poster
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: white, black (overall color)
- Measurements: overall: 20 in x 15 in; 50.8 cm x 38.1 cm
- general subject association: Theater
- ID Number: 1977.0296.057
- catalog number: 1977.0296.057
- accession number: 1977.0296
- Credit Line: Petersilia
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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