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.
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