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The First Black Actors on the Great White Way

1998

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Hardcover book, titled "The First Black Actors on the Great White Way". Cover has white lettering set against a photograph a city street at night; also photo of a man and woman appears semi-translucent on cover.

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Catalog reference: 2011.45.101

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