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As part of a consortium led by @fordfoundation, the Getty is acquiring the archives of Ebony and Jet magazines—more than 4 million prints and negatives cataloguing African American life in the 20th century. 
In addition to the Ford and the Getty, the consortium acquiring the archive also includes the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (@macfound) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (@MellonFdn).
The archive offers remarkable insight into historical events and everyday lives of Black Americans—up-close and personal pictures of artists, celebrities, leaders, and others that provided much-needed representation in the 20th-century media.
Collectively, the foundations will donate the archives to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (@NMAAHC), the Getty Research Institute, and other institutions to ensure free access for the general public and scholars.
The materials the Getty receives will be catalogued and preserved in our special collections, where they can be accessed by researchers and visitors to the library. The archive will be digitized and made accessible to further the reach of the collections.
