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Author/Creator:Culver Pictures, photographer.
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Title:[Photograph of a scene from Slave ship].
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Production:[Los Angeles, California], [1937]
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Physical Description:1 photograph : black and white print ; 19 x 24 cm
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Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
Place and date of creation supplied by cataloger.
Manuscript notations and photographer's ink stamp on verso.
Text in English.
Purchased from William Reese Co. (Swann Galleries sale 2503, 2019 March 28, lot 256) on the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts & Letters Fund, 2019.
- Access and use:This material is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical note:Slave Ship was a 1937 motion picture production by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. The film was adapted from George S. King's 1933 historical novel The Last Slaver.
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Summary:Photograph of a scene from the 1937 motion picture Slave Ship. Image depicts unidentified African American actors portraying enslaved Africans being whipped by crew members on a slave ship.
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Variant and related titles:Slave ship (Motion picture : 1937)
- Format:Visual Material
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Cite as:Culver Pictures, Photograph of a Scene from Slave Ship. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Subjects:King, George S. (George Suthie), 1878---Film adaptations.
King, George S. (George Suthie), 1878- Last slaver.
Culver Pictures.
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
Slave ship (Motion picture : 1937)
Actors--United States--20th century--Pictorial works.
African American actors--Pictorial works.
African American actors--Portraits.
African Americans in motion pictures--Pictorial works.
Feature films--United States--20th century--Pictorial works.
Motion pictures--Production and direction--Pictorial works.
Motion pictures--United States--20th century--Pictorial works.
Slave ships.
Slave trade.
Slavery in motion pictures.
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Genre/Form:Film stills.
Gelatin silver prints.
Photographs.
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Occupation:Actors United States 20th century.
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