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Urban Magazine March 1969

African American Museum

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Object Details

Published by

Urban Magazine Corporation of America, American

Subject of

Major Lavell Merritt, American, born 1928

Owned by

Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010

Description

Urban Magazine, March 1969 featuring a large black and white image of Major Lavell Merritt, seen from the chest up. Merritt wears an army uniform with the branch insignia on his PL collar. Merritt wears dark, thick rimmed glasses and looks into the camera. In the lower left quadrant of the image is a mushroom cloud with black text inside [BLACK/MAJOR/BLAST/U.S. ARMY]. The image is bordered in white and is on a black background. At the top fourth, is the magazine title [URBAN/MAGAZINE]. To the right of the magazine title is a black and white illustration of an owl with black text below ["WE PRINT NEWS/NOT HISTORY"]. The owl is contained within a white rectangle. Along the bottom, in white, is the date and price [March 1969 25 ¢].

Credit Line

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Date

1969

Object number

2013.201.10

Restrictions & Rights

Unknown - Restrictions Possible
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Type

magazines (periodicals)

Medium

paper, ink, metal

Dimensions

H x W: 11 1/16 × 8 1/2 × 1/8 in. (28.1 × 21.6 × 0.3 cm)

Place printed

Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification

Books and Published Materials

Data Source

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Topic

African American
Local and regional
Mass media
Military
Politics

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd53099b5c8-985e-4a28-a0e1-02352e52384d

Record ID

nmaahc_2013.201.10

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