Harlem Gives Its Heart To Josephine Baker: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Mounted newspaper clipping from the May 26, 1951 issue of the New York Amsterdam News. The clipping is titled, "Harlem Gives Its Heart to Josephine Baker." The clippings document Josephine Baker's 1951 visit to Harlem in a series of ten photographs and captions. The back of the mount has a sticker with numbers on it.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: May 26, 1951
• Created by: New York Amsterdam News, American, founded 1909
• Photograph by: L. St. Clair Dummett, American, 1910 - 2000
• Subject of: Josephine Baker, American, 1906 - 1975
• Type: clippings
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 21 7/16 × 16 3/8 in. (54.5 × 41.6 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 24 7/8 × 19 3/4 in. (63.2 × 50.2 cm)
• Place depicted: Harlem, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Black Press
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Topic: Social reform
• Topic: Urban life
• Object number: 2016.135.4
• 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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