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Poster for The Crimson Skull

1922

United States, North and Central America

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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.

A poster for the film The Crimson Skull. The poster features an image two people standing on either side of a white horse. On the left side is a man (Lawrence Chenault) in a red shirt and brown pants. He wears a brown vest, brown cowboy hat and a green scarf tied around his neck. He has an ammunition belt slung around his hips and his head is turned toward the horse and woman on his left. The woman (Anita Bush) also wears a cowboy hat and has a red scarf around her neck over purple shirt. She wears brown pants and an ammunition belt around her waist. She is leaning towards the white horse standing between her and the man and smiling at the man. In the bottom half of the poster is white and yellow text on a black background that reads "The Norman Film MFG CO.

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Catalog reference: 2013.118.25

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