Jet vol. 1 no. 2
- On View
- Making a Way Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Making a Way Out of No Way
- Published by
- Johnson Publishing Company, American, 1942 - 2019
- Edited by
- Johnson, John Harold, American, 1918 - 2005
- Burns, Ben, American, 1913 - 2002
- Clayton, Edward T., American, 1921 - 1966
- Subject of
- Dunham, Katherine, American, 1909 - 2006
- Prince Khan, Ali Salman Aga, 1911 - 1960
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Date
- November 8, 1951
- Medium
- ink on paper with metal
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (Closed): 5 3/4 × 4 3/16 × 1/8 in. (14.6 × 10.6 × 0.3 cm)
- Description
- Jet Magazine, volume 1, number 2, featuring a black and white image of Katherine Dunham, against a yellow background. Dunham is wearing a black off-the-shoulders dress decorated with feathers, fishnet stockings, heeled shoes, a feathered half hat, and a long string of pearls around her neck and her additional pearls around her proper left wrist. She is facing the camera, perched on the side edge of a cushion back chair, with her proper left leg under the knee of her proper right leg. To the left of Dunham’s image is the model’s credit with a caption, in black ink, that reads [Katherine Dunham: / Did She Win Aly Khan / From Rita?] and the associated cover line in a black box with white text in the bottom left corner that reads [HOW NEGRO BEAUTIES / CHARM EUROPE’S MEN]. The top third of the front cover is the masthead and price in black text [JET / THE WEEKLY NEGRO NEWS MAGAZINE / 15c] on the left side and the date line and publisher [Nov. 8, 1951 / A Johnson Publication], on the right. To the right of Dunham is the main cover line, [WHERE / PEOPLE / MAKE / LOVE], and an additional cover line below that reads [WHAT HAPPENS / TO BOXING’S / HAS-BEENS]. The back cover features a black and white image of a German family with their two adopted children with a caption that reads [GERMAN FAMILIES / ADOPT BROWN BABIES / Walking past the bombed / ruins of Munich, a Ger- / man couple who have / adopted two “brown ba- / bies” symbolize the / growing concern in coun- / try over these orphans. / (See “Foreign News”.)]. This magazine issue is sixty-six (66) pages.
- Place printed
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Books and Published Materials
- Topic
- Black Press
- Business
- Mass media
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Courtesy of Johnson Publishing Company, LLC
- Object number
- 2015.122.8
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Johnson Publishing Company, Inc
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.