Images of Childhood-1950's

Story Parade Magazine. January 1954. "The Race" by Feodor Rojankovsky.

















Jack and Jill Magazine. March 1958 Cover by Janet Smalley.


















Jack and Jill Magazine. March 1954 Cover by Jeanne Bendick.


















Jack and Jill Magazine. February 1956. Cover by Ann Eshner.

Our World 1940's African American Magazine

I was sorting through a box of mixed ephemera and came across these rather fragile, but very interesting, magazines from the 1940's. The only information about them that I found with a quick on-line search is this short paragraph on Wikipedia:

John Preston Davis was founding publisher of Our World Magazine, a full-size, nationally-distributed magazine edited for African American readers. Its first issue, with singer-actress Lena Horne on the cover, arrived on the nation’s newsstands in April 1946. Our World was a premier publication for African American men and women covering contemporary topics from black history to sports & entertainment with regular articles on health, fashion, politics & social awareness, was headquartered out of New York City.

Our World portrayed black America as no other national publication had ever done. Its covers featured entertainers’ Lena Horne, Marian Anderson, Harry Belafonte, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Nat King Cole.