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Program for Porgy and Bess

1954

Washington, District of Columbia, 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 program for the opera Porgy and Bess. The program is twenty pages long and features a variety of advertisements for other plays and products. The front cover is a line drawing of a street scene. Text at the top margin reads "NATIONAL / America's First Theatre." Text along the bottom margin reads "PORGY and BESS."

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Catalog reference: 2013.118.269

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