Goff Phillipps
Photo Credit: copy photo: J. Giammatteo
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Goff Phillipps
ca. 191220th century
232 x 182 mm (9.1 x 7.2 in.)
Apeda, American
Object Type:
photograph
Medium and Support:
Gelatin silver print
Marks:
Inscribed in pencil on verso: “Goff Phillips 8-31-12”; stamped, lower left: “Apeda N.Y.”
Provenance / Collectors' Marks:
Purchased by the donors from a secondhand store in Bridgeport, CT; possibly collected by owner or manager W.P. Heuritze of the Roanoke Theater (location presently untraced), or by several managers or theaters.
Bibliography:
See Laurie, p. 122; see object file for research on the collection by Laura Plageman (B.A. Wesleyan 1999) and Erika Greene (B.A. Wesleyan 1988).
Credit Line:
Gift of Ina and Philip S. Trager (BA Wesleyan 1956, DFA 2008), 1981
Accession Number:
1981.27.5.35
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
- blackface entertainers - From TGM: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/tgm/item/tgm001074
- comedy
- race (concept) - Identification of a group of people as distinct from other groups on the basis of physical or socially defined characteristics, such as language. [May 1995 descriptor added.]
- theater (discipline) - Use for the professionally oriented study of theater, involving training, practice, and study in the processes of doing theater. For the academically oriented study of theater, use "drama." [August 1995 descriptor changed, was "theater". April 1993 related term added.]
- vaudeville - LC sh 85142419
Dimensions
- image Dimensions: 232 x 182 mm (9.1 x 7.2 in.)
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Credit Caption
Apeda, American . Goff Phillipps, ca. 1912. Gelatin silver print. image : 232 x 182 mm (9.1 x 7.2 in.). DAC accession number 1981.27.5.35. Gift of Ina and Philip S. Trager (BA Wesleyan 1956, DFA 2008), 1981. (copy photo: J. Giammatteo) .