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Title: Theatrical production, Pomona College
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916-10
Publication Information: Honnold Mudd Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Claremont Colleges Photo Archive
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the Honnold/Mudd Library Special Collections at https://library.claremont.edu/scl/
Description: Two Pomona College students in blackface perform a dance during the "Plug Ugly," an annual Vaudeville-like student theatrical production, in 1916. The male student is wearing balls on the sides of his head and holding a spear. The female student is blocking the spear with a shield.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: xp02240.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ccp/id/8704
Subject: Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)
College students
College theater
Blackface entertainers
African costumes and attire
Source: Lantern slide, 4 x 3.25 inches: title on slide,“’18 Plug ugly Oct. ’16.”; Pomona College Lantern Slides, Honnold/Mudd Library, Special Collections
Relation: Claremont Colleges Photo Archive - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/ccp

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