"Dutchman" photographs and ephemera, 1965 - 1967
Dates
- Creation: 1965 - 1967
General
Contains a photo of an advertisement for Amiri Baraka's Dutchman film; flyers from The Warner Playhouse announcing casting changes for Cecil Rhodes and Norman Fontaine; a Playbill magazine vol 2 no 3 (March 1965) featuring Amiri Baraka and signed by Michael J. Pollard, Gene Persson, Paul Winfield, Ricardo Wright, Anthony Presley, and Bob DoQui, cast members of "Dutchman" and "The Toilet" (also signed by James Oliver on the first page); photos of Shirley Knight and Al Freeman, Jr. on set of Dutchman; and a photo of Amiri Baraka. There are also photocopies of a contract between Gene Persson and Amiri Baraka, signing as LeRoi Jones, to option "Dutchman."
The photographs include three publicity film still photographs of Shirley Knight and Al Freeman, Jr. from the film production of "Dutchman" (D-2, D-5, D-10); a photograph of Knight and Freeman, Jr. in a scene for the film production; a photograph of Knight and Freeman, Jr. in a scene of the play production; a posed studio portrait of photograph of Knight and Freeman, Jr. (two copies), a photograph of Amiri Baraka.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository