Mar 30, 2023 - Sale 2631

Sale 2631 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(ENTERTAINMENT--FILM.) Set of 8 lobby cards for Oscar Micheaux's "The Girl from Chicago." Photographs, 8 x 10 inches, each captioned in the negative and on a standard Micheaux Productions mount; light foxing, moderate wear, including a few closed tears and tack holes at corners. No place, [1932]
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Oscar Micheaux was America's first successful Black film director and producer, with 42 films to his credit from 1919 to 1948. "The Girl from Chicago" was one of his more successful works. Set in Mississippi and Harlem, it featured a damsel in distress rescued from a crime boss by an undercover agent.

The title photograph is laid down on the mount, and bears an inked stamp on verso from a later poster retailer. The others are inserted into hand-cut slits at the corners and pasted into place on verso at the corners with bits of Micheaux advertising circulars.