Image of a white man in a suit praying at the foot of a newly dug grave under a tree with three African American men standing in the background with a horse and one, presumably the gravedigger, holds a shovel; the poster advertises the Harmount Company production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stow. Probable date approximated by cataloger. "The Donaldson - Lith - Co. - Newport, Ky. No. 954."--text, bottom right margin. "'Oh Witness / Eternal God.'"--text, bottom left.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 73.98 x 51.75 cm (29 1/8 x 20 3/8 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works African Americans--Performances & portrayals African Americans--Pictorial works Cemeteries--Pictorial works Prayer--Pictorial works Slaves--Pictorial works Historical dramas Melodramas Theatrical productions Harmount's Uncle Tom's Cabin Company Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Entertainment Large Size Music and Theater The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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