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Big Fella, 1938

    Black and white photo still from the 1938 film Big Fella, showing Paul Robeson seated in a restaurant, with his wife, Eslanda Goode Robeson, standing behind him, and his pianist Lawrence Brown seated on his left. Robeson wears a white shirt with a dark tie.

    Scene from motion picture Big Fella. Standing is Paul Robeson’s wife and business manager, Eslanda Goode Robeson; at right is Paul’s longstanding accompanist and musical arranger, Lawrence Brown.

    1938
    Copyright
    Undetermined as reviewed by New York Public Library; author’s use is non-commercial & educational for publicly accessible West Philadelphia Collaborative History
    Attribution/Credit

    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Photographs & Prints Division, New York Public Library; accessed from New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f81840f0-c6cd-012f-5eae-58d385a7bc34, 15 January 2022.