Find Any Photo
Charles S. Gilpin as “The Emperor Jones,” by Abbe
Download full sizeView at the archive

Charles S. Gilpin as “The Emperor Jones,” by Abbe

Charles S. Gilpin in his role as “The Emperor Jones,” photographed by James Abbe. “Eugene O’Neill’s remarkable playlet, ‘The Emperor Jones’ done by the ambitious Provincetown Players in Greenwich Village, brought forward a splendid negro actor, Charles S. Gilpin. From printers’ devil to barnstorming, Gilpin fought his way to the New York stage, arriving as the faithful slave in ‘Abraham Lincoln.’ The Provincetown Players had the courage to give him his opportunity in the O’Neill study in primitive fear, revolving around a Pullman porter who becomes emperor of a South Sea isle.”

Date
1921
Photographer / author
James Abbe
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
photograph
Original size
2,017 × 3,648 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its US copyright has expired (published before 1931).

Read from: Commons licence category: PD US expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

Credit line

"Charles S. Gilpin as “The Emperor Jones,” by Abbe" (1921). James Abbe, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_S._Gilpin_as_%E2%80%9CThe_Emperor_Jones,%E2%80%9D_by_Abbe.jpg

What public domain means here

Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 54289.

More like this