By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated August 2, 2022
With a $30 million dollar transaction, over four million negatives and prints from Jet and Ebony magazines will now be digitized. This purchase was made by the combined efforts of the Smithsonian Institution, the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.
The Smithsonian issued a press release about this historic acquisition, quoting the Director of the National Museum
