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[Native Son movie archive]. [1950-1951].

Title: [Native Son movie archive]. [1950-1951].

An archive of promotional material relating to the 1951 movie "Native Son", produced by James Prades and directed by Pierre Chenal, and starring Jean Wallace, Nicholas Joy, Gloria Madison and Wright himself in the role of Bigger Thomas. The archive is as follows: an Exhibitor's Campaign Manual for the U.K. release of the movie, containing background material on Wright, the director and stars, as well as some hilarious tips for promoting the film; twelve glossy black and white still photographs showing scenes from the movie; four of the rare color lobby cards featuring scenes from the movie; and two full-size color posters for the movie featuring the respective tag lines of "I didn't mean to kill her!" and "The Dynamite-Loaded Story of a Negro and a White Girl!" The posters are folded with some light creasing and chipping to the edges, else the archive generally is near fine."--The Richard Wright Collection catalog.

ArchivalResource: 4 file folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48377404 View

Duncan, Thomas Cary, 1862-1928. Papers of the Wallace, Rice, and Duncan families, 1765-1933.

Title: Papers of the Wallace, Rice, and Duncan families, 1765-1933.

Consisting chiefly of correspondence, bills and receipts, statements of cotton sales, land papers, account books, and other materials relating to Benjamin Herndon Rice's plantation in Union County, S.C., cotton growing, and business dealings with Charleston, S.C., cotton factors, Rice, Sims & Barksdale, Pelzer, Rodgers & Co., and A.J. Salinas & Son. Topics discussed include secession crisis of 1850; temperance; African Americans during slavery, Reconstruction, and after, including sales and hiring-out of slaves; agriculture and cultivation of cotton; migration; Civil War; railroads; poor cotton crop in 1866 due to weather conditions; economic conditions in S.C., Mississippi, Alabama and elsewhere after the Civil War, including migration of "Yankee farmers" from the north; and farm labor and sharecropping. Other topics include Atlantic Phosphate Company (Charleston, S.C.); Ku Klux Klan; Flynn family of Union, S.C.; sale, ca. Nov. 1911, of a plantation hunting resort near Georgetown, S.C.; and political and temperance speeches by B.H. Rice; Letters, 1866-1885, of James Monroe Wallace, his sister Mary Ann Wallace, and the children of their deceased brother William M. Wallace re J.M. Wallace's guardianship of their estates; business records, 1867-1932, re the mercantile firm of Rice & Coleman, Union, including letters to Robert Lowry Coleman re cotton and tobacco market conditions and from overseer W.T. Dickenson. Papers re textile industry in S.C., including Union Mills, S.C., Orangeburg Cotton Mills, and letters to R.L. Coleman's son, William Coleman (1875-1924), president of Glenn-Lowry Manufacturing Company, Whitmire, S.C., re expansion of the mill in 1911; other correspondents include William Ashmead Courtenay, Thomas Cary Duncan, Andrew Simonds, W.B. Smith Whaley, Jeanette Winter Wallace, R.W. Wallace, John P. Wallace. Three bound volumes: 1821 and 1871-1880, account book of an unidentified merchant; volume, 1858-1866, account book listing financial records re settlement of the estates of B.G. Rice and E.M. Rice; and volume, 1859-1868, recipe book with manuscript poetry.

ArchivalResource: 1018 items and 3 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28408605 View