Advertisement for WLAC-TV Eyewitness News at 10: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A newsprint advertisement featuring a black-and-white images of WLAC-TV co-anchors, Oprah Winfrey and Vic Mason. Winfrey and Mason are visible from the chest up. Both are facing the viewers and smiling. Mason is on the far right. He is wearing a dark suit jacket and a light toned, button down shirt. Winfrey is depicted behind Mason's proper left shoulder. She is wearing a wearing a light toned, collared garment. The text on the left side of the advertisement reads [5 / takes you / there / live. / Eyewitness News at 10 / Vic Mason / and Oprah Winfrey]. The back of the advertisement features an advertisement for Jim Walter Homes.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1976
• Published by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Oprah Winfrey, American, born 1954
• Subject of: Vic Mason
• Subject of: WLAC-TV, American, founded 1954
• Type: advertisements
• Medium: ink on newsprint
• Dimensions: H x W: 1 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (4.5 × 12 cm)
• Place used: Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Journalism
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Television
• Object number: 2018.15.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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