Description: Playbill for a final showing of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in the United States on December 11, 1893. Uncle Tom's Cabin was often presented on stage. Multiple Uncle Tom's Cabin Companies, like the one advertised here, traveled the country performing the story. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_SC08_B01F08
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; African American women; African American authors; Slavery; Plays--African American authors
 

Description: This photograph of a man with a bicycle has been tentatively identified as Paul Laurence Dunbar. The man is pictured standing next to a bicycle, underneath a tree and in front of a white fence. The tree is in full bloom, suggesting that the picture was taken in the spring or summer months. Paul Laurence Dunbar was a prominent African American author, poet, and playwright in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries whose work gained national prominence. Dunbar was a native of Dayton, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05256
Subjects: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906--Homes and haunts--Ohio; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans; Plays--African American authors; African American authors; African American men; African Americans--Ohio