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Themes: MLC Portfolio: Global Interactions

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Artist(s): anonymous
Title: Al Jolson from publicity photo from the film The Jazz Singer, 1928
Date: 1928
Dimensions: 10 in. x 8 in. (25.4 cm x 20.32 cm)
Medium: gelatin silver print
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase, 1987.497

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Themes: MLC Portfolio: Global Interactions
Periods and Styles: Civil Rights Movement
Themes: MLC Portfolio: American Identity
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Race and Otherness

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Racial Realities: a photographic questioning of equality in America,1940-1983, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/13/1984 - 3/7/1985
Do You See What I See?  Representing the Black Subject, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/4/2007 - 12/30/2007
The Discerning Eye: Five Perspectives on the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/4/2007 - 12/30/2007
Reading Room Installation: Selections from Do You See What I See?, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/19/2008 - 3/23/2008

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