Johnson Publishing Company Archive

Founded in 1942, the Johnson Publishing Company was responsible for magazine titles such as Ebony, Jet, Tan, Confessions, Hue, Black Stars, and Negro Digest. The company's archive contains nearly 5 million photographs, 5,000 magazines, 10,000 audio and visual recordings, and 200 boxes of business records, making it one of the most significant collections relating to 20th-century Black America. Co-owned by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Getty Research Institute, the archive is currently undergoing a multi-year process of being catalogued and digitized. Learn more: www.getty.edu/projects/johnson-publishing-company-…