Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -

Sale 2697 - Lot 311

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(PERIODICALS.) Group of 17 point-of-purchase posters from Johnson Publishing (Jet, Ebony, Copper Romance, and Tan). Posters on light board, most about 13 x 10 inches, the Tan and Copper Romance about 11 x 8 inches; minor wear, some with minor dampstaining. No place, 1947-1975 and undated
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Additional Details

These posters were issued as advertisements at news stands by the Johnson Publishing empire. Included are:

14 posters for Jet (2 of them accompanied by the corresponding print issues), 1952-1956. Headlines include "Why Men Beat Their Wives!", "Why Fat Women are Better Lovers," "Are Bald-Headed Men Sexier?", "Are Creoles Negroes?" and "The Wife Who Wants to Keep House in Jail."

3 posters for Ebony: April 1947 ("Marian Anderson's Country Hideaway"), [January 1954] ("My Daughter Married a White Man", accompanied by the corresponding print issue), and March 1957 ("My Greatest Ambition, by Floyd Patterson", accompanied by the corresponding print issue).

One poster for Copper Romance, March 1954 ("Do Men Make Beautiful Women Bad?")

2 posters for Tan: April 1953 ("Are Frenchmen Better Lovers?") and June 1953 ("Father Divine's Kissless Marriage").

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