Advertisment for Bakerfix featuring and signed by Josephine Baker: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A Bakerfix advertisement featuring an image of Josephine Baker. The image is a close up image of Baker from the shoulders up. She is leaning her head down, towards her proper right shoulder. Text written in French at the top reads: [Bakerfix / Brillantiné / fixe les cheveux sans les graisser]. The bottom right corner has Baker's signature. Below her signature black text reads: [Draeger, Imp.]. The advertisement is mounted in white matting. The back of the matting has exhibition labels from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and the Sheldon Art Galleries.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1930
• Printed by: Draeger, Imp, French, 1886 - 1980
• Illustrated by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Josephine Baker, American, 1906 - 1975
• Signed by: Josephine Baker, American, 1906 - 1975
• Type: lithographs
• Type: advertisements
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 11 × 8 5/8 in. (27.9 × 21.9 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 18 1/8 × 16 3/16 in. (46 × 41.1 cm)
• Place made: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Beauty culture
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Hair
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Object number: 2016.135.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Jean-Claude Baker
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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