A consortium of foundations acquired Ebony and Jet magazines’historic photo archive for$30 million and plan to donate it to the Smithsonian and Getty Research Institute.
Author: N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY
Historic Ebony and Jet photo auction to continue Wednesday after ‘truly remarkable’ participation
The legendary archive of 4 million photos from Ebony and Jet magazines will continue Wednesday, a week after it began. The high bid is $13 million.
‘Something worth saving’: Historic Ebony photo archive to be auctioned off to pay creditors
The collection of more than 4 million images and thousands of hours of video and audio chronicle 7 decades of black life in America.