reelsistas: classic Lena Horne & Duke Ellington on the October 1949 cover of Ebony.

Click the "All Sizes" button above to read an article or to see the image clearly. These scans come from my rather large magazine collection. Instead of filling my house with old moldy magazines, I scanned them (in most cases, photographed them) and filled a storage area with moldy magazines. Now they reside on an external harddrive. I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history. Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions... Thanks in advance!

Magazine covers featuring musical artists are inherently cool, whether the reader is a tween or a boomer. They come loaded with style, after all.

Thirty cool covers of Jet Magazine featuring Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Richard Pryor, Bobby wommack, Marlon Brando, Sly Stone, James Brown and More.

Black Americans of the 1960s were fighting to define their future and themselves on their own terms; EBONY was there to capture the journey.

Explore this photo album by Vieilles Annonces on Flickr!

Ebony Jr!, June/July 1973 Source: Google Books (they have the complete 12-year run of Ebony Jr, every issue completely scanned)