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Photo Credit: copy photo: J. Giammatteo
Bookmark (persistent url): https://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/objects-1/info/11983
Will Jennings and Al Wilson
ca. 1905-191520th century
216 x 157 mm (8.5 x 6.2 in.)
REM Studio, American
Object Type:
photograph
Medium and Support:
Gelatin silver print
Marks:
Inscribed in black ink, lower left: “Will Jennings & Al Wilson”; embossed, lower right: “REM Studio 145 W. 45th St. New York”
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 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:
1981.27.5.42
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: 216 x 157 mm (8.5 x 6.2 in.)
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Credit Caption
REM Studio, American . Will Jennings and Al Wilson, ca. 1905-1915. Gelatin silver print. image : 216 x 157 mm (8.5 x 6.2 in.). DAC accession number 1981.27.5.42. Gift of Ina and Philip S. Trager (BA Wesleyan 1956, DFA 2008), 1981. (copy photo: J. Giammatteo) .
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