Picture News No. 3: Museum Object and Cultural History
Picture News No. 3: date made: 1946. depicted (sitter): Sinatra, Frank. depicted (sitter): Goodman, Benny.
The object in the museum catalogue
The cover of this issue of Picture News features singer Frank Sinatra punching another man in the jaw while a group of young women look on. Inside the issue, the story “Frank Sinatra Chokes Racial Bigotry at the Grass Roots” features a compilation of scenes from the crooner’s influential 1945 short film The House I Live In .
Other stories in the issue include Atomic Power Can Save the World; Blind Veteran Fights for His Dog; A Treasure Island Off Boston Harbor; Square Deal - A Picture News Editorial; A Singing Cop Lands in the Opera; Prepare or Paris; How Maryland Handled a Wife Beater; A G.I. Hero Gets a "Thank You" Farm; Bringing the War Criminals to Court; Benny Goodman's Great Comeback; Thrilling Adventures of Al Jennings; How a Famous "Conchie" Won the C.M.H.; Beauty Secrets of the Screen Stars; Four Pages of Laughs by Milt Gross; People's College - Fight Against Disease; Why the Lieut. Sued His Pin-Up Wife; Jim Jeffries and His Young "Haymakers;" The Puzzle of the Crazy Kitchen.
Picture News was a comic book title published by the Lafayette Street Corp. between 1946-1947. Running for ten issues, the periodical featured non-fiction news items rendered into comic stories. The News Editor for this issue was Emile Gauvreau, the Artic Director was John A. Lehti.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1946
- depicted (sitter): Sinatra, Frank
- depicted (sitter): Goodman, Benny
- maker: 299 Lafayette Street Corp.
- Object Name: program
- Object Name: comic book
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 26.035 cm x 18.415 cm
- place made: United States: Connecticut, Bridgeport
- Subject: Comics
- Subject: Racism
- Subject: Nuclear power
- Subject: Entertainment
- Subject: Music
- Subject: Journalism
- ID Number: 2015.0215.0440
- accession number: 2015.0215
- catalog number: 2015.0215.0440
- Credit Line: David J. Girson and Eileen Miller Girson
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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