Advertisment for Bakerfix featuring and signed by Josephine Baker

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A Bakerfix advertisement featuring an image of Josephine Baker. The image is a close up image of Baker from the shoulders up. She is leaning her head down, towards her proper right shoulder. Text written in French at the top reads: [Bakerfix / Brillantiné / fixe les cheveux sans les graisser]. The bottom right corner has Baker's signature. Below her signature black text reads: [Draeger, Imp.]. The advertisement is mounted in white matting. The back of the matting has exhibition labels from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and the Sheldon Art Galleries.

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