Oct 17, 2019 - Sale 2520

Sale 2520 - Lot 381

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AFRICAN AMERICANA)
A group of more than 55 photographs documenting the theatrical production Take a Giant Step, the first play by a Black playwright, Louis Peterson, that was produced for Broadway.
With images of a young Louis Gossett as the leading character, plus accomplished shots of rehearsals, production scenes, close ups of actors and actresses, and set designs. Silver prints, the images measuring 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, with captions identifying the performers and/or numeric notations, in pencil, on verso; with 5 duplicates, a Playbill, and newspaper clippings (reviews). 1953

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