Picture News No. 3
date: label: date made
content: 1946
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Sinatra, Frank
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content: Goodman, Benny
label: maker
content: 299 Lafayette Street Corp.
notes: label: Description
content: The cover of this issue of <i>Picture News </i> 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 <i> The House I Live In </i>.
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content: 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.
label: Description
content: <i>Picture News </i> 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Bridgeport
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
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content: Racism
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content: Nuclear power
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content: Entertainment
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content: Music
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content: Journalism
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Comic Books
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0215.0440
label: accession number
content: 2015.0215
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0215.0440
objectType: label: Object Name
content: program
label: Object Name
content: comic book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 26.035 cm x 18.415 cm