The Show-Down vol. 1 no. 10: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The Show-Down magazine, volume 1, number 10. The front cover is green with navy print and features a blue tinted, circular image of Ethel Waters against a blue background. Waters is depicted from the neck up. Her head is turned and she is looking towards the right side of the image. She wears a white fur stole. The main cover line is centered along the bottom fourth of the front cover and reads, [Beginning - / "Dark Ghetto" / by Neil Lawrence]. The date and price are printed along the bottom edge of the front cover and reads, [October - 1936] on the left and [Fifteen Cents] on the right. The masthead is centered in the top third of the front cover, and reads, [THE / SHOW-DOWN]. A horizontal blue line extends from either side of the word [THE]. The text, [SHOW-DOWN], is in large, block lettering patterned with vertical white stripes. The interior pages are white and green with black text and black-and-white images. The back cover is features an advertisement for Norton & Margot’s Dance Studio. This magazine issue is fourteen (14) pages.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: October 1936
• Published by: Show-Down Publishing Company, American, founded 1935
• Edited by: Sally J. Cathrell Jr., American, 1913 - 1981
• Written by: Neil Lawrence
• Subject of: Ethel Waters, American, 1896 - 1977
• Type: magazines (periodicals)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal
• Dimensions: H x W x D (Closed): 11 1/4 × 8 13/16 × 1/16 in. (28.6 × 22.4 × 0.2 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (Open): 11 1/4 × 17 1/2 × 3/16 in. (28.6 × 44.4 × 0.4 cm)
• Place printed: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Black Press
• Topic: Dance
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Latin jazz (Music)
• Topic: Literature
• Object number: 2013.46.25.77
• 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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