Advertisment for Bakerfix featuring and signed by Josephine Baker
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1930
name: label: Printed by
content: Draeger, Imp, French, 1886 - 1980
label: Illustrated by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Josephine Baker, American, 1906 - 1975
label: Signed by
content: Josephine Baker, American, 1906 - 1975
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: Place made
content: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Actors
label: Topic
content: Advertising
label: Topic
content: Beauty culture
label: Topic
content: Business
label: Topic
content: Entertainers
label: Topic
content: Hair
label: Topic
content: Jazz (Music)
label: Topic
content: Singers (Musicians)
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Advertisements
label: Movement
content: Harlem Renaissance (New Negro Movement)
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Jean-Claude Baker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.135.1
objectType: label: Type
content: lithographs
label: Type
content: advertisements
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown - Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 11 × 8 5/8 in. (27.9 × 21.9 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 18 1/8 × 16 3/16 in. (46 × 41.1 cm)