May 14, 2010
The 1922 silent film, The Crimson Skull, was produced entirely in Boley, Oklahoma, the largest predominately black town in the United States at that time. The all-black cast included famed rodeo star Bill Pickett, who had already appeared in 1921′s The Bull Dogger. The artist responsible for this attractive lithograph is unknown.
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May 3, 2010
The Royal Lilliputians was a successful musical comedy that made the rounds in the early years of the 20th century. Putting a humorous spin on Gulliver’s Travels, Royal Lilliputians was performed with a cast of thirty-seven, including Franz Ebert, Selma Goerner, and James E. Rosen. A staggering sum at the time, $30,000 was invested in [...]
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