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A scene from "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf"

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1696713


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Title

A scene from "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf"

Collection

New York Shakespeare Festival records
Series XII: Photographs
Subseries 1 - Productions
Sub-subseries - Broadway
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf

Names

Swope, Martha (Photographer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1976

Library Location

Billy Rose Theatre Division
Shelf locator: *T-Mss 1993-028

Subjects

New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater
Theatrical productions
Shange, Ntozake. For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf

Genres

Photographs

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15059124
Archives ID: 21550
Archives EAD ID: 944923
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2fa7e3c0-c6c1-012f-4b26-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

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MLA format

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "A scene from "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf"" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1976. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2fa7e3c0-c6c1-012f-4b26-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1976). A scene from "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf" Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2fa7e3c0-c6c1-012f-4b26-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "A scene from "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf"" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 17, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2fa7e3c0-c6c1-012f-4b26-58d385a7bc34

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