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Image of actors onstage for Porgy and Bess.
Photo from the first scene of "Porgy and Bess," taken on the opening night of the Boston tryout of the opera, by Richard H. Tucker, September 30, 1935. George and Ira Gershwin Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

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