Promotional pamphlet for Soul City, North Carolina: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A promotional pamphlet for Soul City, North Carolina, printed in brown ink on tan paper, with a stapled center binding. The cover features an image of a two story building with two smoke stacks or towers on the right and a tree on the left. The building appears at the center across an oval graphic with vertical lines radiating from the above and below the building. At the top is [SOUL] and at the bottom is [CITY] in large block letters. At the bottom of the page, in the same block lettering, is [THE BOLD ALTERNATIVE]. There are fourteen pages total and the content includes reprinted newspaper articles and additional text about Soul City and the plans for the future. A color, fold-out map illustrating the planned city's infrastructure is in the center of the pamphlet. The back cover has brown text in the lower left corner reading [For further information contact: / Floyd B. McKissick / The Soul City Company / Soul City, North Carolina / The preparation of this document was / financed in part by a contract with / the United States Department of / Commerce, Office of Minority Business / Enterprise].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1974-1979
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Soul City Company, American, 1974 - 1979
• Subject of: Floyd McKissick, American, 1922 - 1991
• Subject of: United States Department of Commerce, American, founded 1903
• Type: pamphlets
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 10 13/16 × 8 7/16 × 1/16 in. (27.5 × 21.4 × 0.2 cm)
• Place depicted: Soul City, Warren County, North Carolina, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Architecture
• Topic: Black geographies
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Design
• Topic: Housing
• Topic: Urban planning
• Object number: 2019.28.21.2
• 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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