Platinum print, circa 1925-1932, pencil signed to the mount at right, matted, unframed. Lot includes a copy of the following text written by the consignor, Philip Walker Jacobs, where he references this photograph of Richard Berry Harrison on page 196, plate 31: Philip Walker Jacobs, The Life and Photography of Doris Ulmann (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2001).

Sheet Size 8 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.; DOA 14 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.

Collection of Philip Walker Jacobs, Wilmington, NC

Richard Berry Harrison was a renowned African American theater actor in the late 19th- and early 20th-century. Harrison's parents escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad, and their love of dramatic theater influenced Harrison early. His mother named him Richard after seeing Shakespeare's Richard III, and he went on to perform in a number of Shakespearean performances. His accolades include a successful role as "de Lawd" in the Broadway performance Green Pastures, a Pulitzer Prize for this role, several teaching positions (including at least one in North Carolina), and a feature on the cover of TIME Magazine in 1935.

Several small nicks; small loss upper left corner (retained with photograph); photograph loose from the mount.

$400 - 800