Photographic print from the Broadway production of "for colored girls..."
- Photograph by
- Swope, Martha, American
- Subject of
- Collins, Risë
- MacCauley, Robbie, American, born 1942
- Miller, Jonette O'Kelley, American
- Hunt, Sharita Mae
- Johnson, Leona
- Date
- 1977-1978
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 7 9/16 × 9 1/2 in. (19.2 × 24.1 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
- H x W (mounting paper): 10 1/4 × 13 3/8 in. (26 × 34 cm)
- Description
- A black and white photograph of the Broadway production of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf: Risë Collins (Lady in Purple), Robbie MacCauley (Lady in Red), Jonette O’Kelley Miller (Lady in Green), Sharita Mae Hunt (Lady in Orange), and Leona Johnson (Lady in Yellow).
- Place captured
- New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- photographs
- portraits
- Topic
- Actors
- Broadway Theatre
- Drama (Theatre)
- Feminism
- Modern dance
- Poetry
- Women
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the collection of Earl S. and Jonette O. Miller
- Object number
- 2015.53.5
- Restrictions & Rights
- Photo by Martha Swope/ ©The New York Public Library
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.