- Collection:
- Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976
- Title:
- Devil tempting St. Peter, scene from the morality play "Heaven Bound," staged by the Big Bethel African Methodist Choir, at the Atlanta Theatre (23 Exchange Place), Atlanta, Georgia, August 1937
- Creator:
- Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1937-08
- Subject:
- Moralities
Religious drama--Georgia--Atlanta
Choirs (Music)
African American choirs
Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Atlanta Theatre
Heaven Bound (Morality play)
Federal Theatre Project (U.S.). Atlanta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
black-and-white negatives - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- A roll of film from 1937 found in the Lane Brothers Collection. The Federal Theatre Project and the Atlanta Studio Group invited the Big Bethel to perform the pageant at the Atlanta Theatre. The play opened on August 10, 1937 and ran for a week. The play returned in January 1937, and again in 1938. For several years, the devil was played by Henry James Furlow.
- Local Identifier:
- LBstrip038v
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/lane/id/13610
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/lane:13610/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: LBstrip038v, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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