- Produced by
- H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, American, 1896 - 1935
- Subject of
- Wilkes, Mattie, American, 1875 - 1927
- Walker, George "Nash", American, 1873 - 1911
- Williams, Bert, American, 1874 - 1922
- Williams and Walker Company, American, 1899 - 1909
- Hurtig & Seamon, American
- Date
- 1899-1905
- Medium
- ink on paper, glass, wood, metal
- Dimensions
- Framed: 37 5/8 × 22 5/8 × 1 1/16 in. (95.6 × 57.5 × 2.7 cm)
- H x W (Poster (sight)): 27 3/4 × 20 1/2 in. (70.5 × 52.1 cm)
- H x W (Brown paper (sight)): 9 1/4 × 20 1/2 in. (23.5 × 52.1 cm)
- Description
- A color poster featuring an illustration of the late 19th-early 20th century performer Mattie Wilkes. Wilkes is pictured in the center against a yellow background. She has a faint smile and is gazing off to one side. She is wearing an off-the-shoulder white, ruffled dress and small, white, round stud earrings and she has a pink flower in her hair. In blue, black and orange text across the top is [HURTIG & SEAMON PRESENT / WILLIAMS & WALKER / AND THEIR OWN BIG CO.]. Along the bottom of the depiction of Wilkes is written in black, grey, and yellow text [THE BEAUTIFUL / MATTIE WILKES / PHENOMENAL SOPRANO]. An addition on brown paper across the bottom of the poster is [HOLLIDAY ST. / THEATRE / WEEK COMMENCING / MON. MAT. NOV. 6 / MATINEES AS USUAL]. There is a small mark reading [The / H.C. Miner / Litho. Co. / N.Y.].
- Place used
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Time-based Media - Moving Images
- Type
- posters
- Topic
- Actors
- Musical Theatre
- Singers (Musicians)
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Stephen and Catherine Markardt
- Object number
- 2013.137
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




