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1 Cent - Jet Community Mkt. Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Jet Community Market, Chicago, Illinois |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper with ornate letterpress border of guilloche scrollwork and scalloped corner panels each bearing the denomination numeral '1c'. A circular vignette at left shows a balance scale; a faint Liberty-figure underprint appears at centre-right. Inscriptions identify the issuer and address in bold sans-serif type, with a lower panel reading 'ONE CENT CREDIT SLIP'. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1C 1C FOOD STAMP CREDIT SLIP Redeemable Only in Eligible Foods at JET COMMUNITY MKT. 1030 N. LARABEE ST. Chicago, Ill ONE CENT Not Redeemable in U.S. Currency ONE CENT CREDIT SLIP 1C 1C |
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Jet Community Market was a Black-owned grocery chain founded by John H. Johnson — the same Johnson who launched Jet and Ebony magazines — as a retail venture in Chicago during the early 1950s. The stores were part of a broader push toward Black economic self-sufficiency on the South Side, and scrip like this piece would have circulated as store credit or change tokens within that closed commercial loop. Whether issued as a promotional device or a practical cash substitute during coin shortages is not definitively established.