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English: TITLE: "The Emperor Jones" by Eugene O'Neill with Ralph Chesse's Marionettes

CALL NUMBER: POS - WPA - CA .01 .E55, no. 1 (B size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC2-1141 (color film copy slide)

SUMMARY: Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "The Emperor Jones" at the Columbia theater, showing a woodcut design of a man in military uniform holding a handgun.

MEDIUM: 1 print (poster) : silkscreen, color.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [California : Federal Art Project, 1937]

RELATED NAMES: O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Emperor Jones.
Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), sponsor.

NOTES: *Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

  • Serial no. 771.
  • Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 118.
  • Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.

SUBJECTS: Theatrical productions--1930-1940.

FORMAT: Theatrical posters 1930-1940. Screen prints Color 1930-1940.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (color film copy slide) cph 3b49041
Original found at [1]

VIDEO FRAME ID: LCPP003B-49041 (from color film copy slide)

CARD #: 97514066
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Source Library of Congress
Author Federal Theatre Project
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This image is a work of a Works Progress Administration employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §§ 101 and 105).

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Ralph Chessé adaptation of The Emperor Jones was presented in San Francisco and one additional city April 13–24, 1937.

  • Flanagan, Hallie (1965). Arena: The History of the Federal Theatre. New York: Benjamin Blom, reprint edition [1940]. OCLC 855945294. See page 395.

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