Boston: Anti-Slavery Bazaar, 1849. Small broadside measuring 7 ¾ x 4 ½ inches printed on green wove paper. Some creases and a small tear at margin, near fine. The American Anti-Slavery Society hosted annual bazaars, which served as fundraisers, with money going to supporting the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper. Many.....
Providence, Rhode Island: H.H. Brown, 1833. Lacking wraps. [12pp] booklet measuring 5 x 8 inches. A short booklet reproducing a series of abolitionist principles attributed to the Providence Anti-Slavery Society alongside William Lloyd Garrison’s Declaration of Sentiments from the 1833 convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia. This section.....
Boston, Massachusetts: William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp, April 1861. Single sheet letterpress broadside measuring 18 x 24 ½ inches. Offered here is a “phonographic report” (i.e., it includes the audience’s reaction) of a speech delivered by abolitionist Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) to the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society in Boston on April.....
United States: 1859/1860. Ten page booklet measuring 5 ½ x 8 inches; article from newspaper pasted in. A copy of Daniel W. Voorhees’ speech in defense of John E. Cook during his trial for participating in the Harpers Ferry raid. The speech was printed in a number of newspapers in.....
Birmingham, United Kingdom: c. 1814. Copper medal measuring 1 ½ inches in diameter. A copper medal commemorating the passage of the United Kingdom’s Slave Trade Act 1807, produced for distribution in Sierra Leone. One side depicts a European and an African man shaking hands and reads, “WE ARE ALL BRETHREN”.....
London, England: Ellerton and Henderson, 1823. Three page document measuring 8 ½ x 13 ¼ inches. A document produced by the Society for Mitigating and Gradually Abolishing the State of Slavery throughout the British Dominions, better known as the Anti-Slavery Society. The group was founded in London in 1823 by.....
United States: 1930s. 12 ½ x 18 ¾ sheet. A broadside soliciting advertisers for Condé Nast’s publications Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden, and The American Golfer. Printed following the 1929 crash, the broadside’s tactic is to portray Condé Nast magazines’ readers as the people who stay rich, or get.....
New Haven: Black Panther Party, 1970. Double sided broadside on newsprint measuring 17 ½ x 11 inches, with horizontal fold. Small closed tears and foxing to margin, light tanning, very good overall. An uncommon Black Panther imprint printed during the 1970 New Haven trials surrounding the death of Alex Rackley.....
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Cincinnati / St. Louis: George H. Jung Co., 1920s-1930s. Four panel fan measuring appx. 4 x 7.5 inches. Staining to front panel, some chips and wear, good plus overall. A fan produced by the George F. Jung Co. of Cincinnati for the Price & Walker Funeral Home of St. Louis.....
Baltimore and Worcester County: 1864-1865. Two documents affixed at top edge, measuring 9 x 6 ¾ and 14 x 8 ½ inches. Tape repairs at folds, some with heavy clear tape, else excellent, good condition overall. With the embossed stamp of the Board of Claims to first document and two.....
Philadelphia: 1927. Handbill measuring 9 x 6 inches affixed to heavy card stock. Some wear and toning, tearing to cardstock mount at verso, quite good overall and very presentable. A handbill advertising a talk at the Thermopylae Baptist Church at 24th and Bolton St. in North Philadelphia, featuring Isadore Martin.....
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New York: Benjamin W. Hitchcock, 1880. Sheet music measuring 11 x 14 inches. 6 pp. With illustrated folio cover with Bland’s likeness and a stereotypical illustration of African-Americans at church. Fine condition. A scarce and possibly a first printing of James A. Bland’s “In the Evening by the Moonlight,” published.....
Boston: JE Farwell, 1863? Single sheet 16mo programs, double sided. Fine condition. Two programs for performances by Morris Brothers Pell and Trowbridge shows in Boston, advertising Saturday afternoon performances at their Opera House before the fire of 1864 which led to their move to St. Louis. The performances feature Thomas.....
New York: 1916. Small broadsheet measuring 9 ¾ x 6 ¼ inches mounted to backing paper. Chips to margins affecting text, fair condition. A program for a benefit concert for the Manassus Industrial School at the Music School Settlement in New York, featuring performances by Mabel Diggs, Consuelo Pappy, Jessie.....
Washington? 1876. 8vo, 16 pp. Some tape repairs to margins else fine, very good condition overall. The transcript of the debates in Congress following the Hamburg Massacre, which as a seminal event in South Carolina’s history and in the use of violence as a form of voter suppression. The pamphlet.....
Lexington, Kentucky: 1980s or 90s. 10 ¾ x 16 inch sheet. Poster for an event at the University of Kentucky featuring KRS-One and Kwame Ture (misspelled “Toure”), formerly known as Stokely Carmichael. Ture was a central figure in the civil rights and Black power movements: among numerous other activities, he.....
Atlanta, Georgia: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1932. Four page booklet measuring 6 x 9 inches. A 1932 booklet summarizing the results of the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching’s findings about the crime, published by the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC). Formed in 1919, the Atlanta-based CIC involved white.....
United States and Canada: July–August 1947. Eleven double-sided scrapbook pages measuring 7 x 11 inches, containing forty-five 2 ½ x 3 ½ inch photographs, six postcards, four maps, four guides, and nine typed pages. A scrapbook documenting an African-American family’s road trip during July and August of 1947, which took.....
Vincennes, Indiana: Lost Art Society, 1932. Stapled booklet of four double-sided pages, measuring 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. A booklet advertising a forthcoming “World Business Directory of Negroes”, which was to be put out by the “Lost Art Society”. This was the project of Earnest William Evans (1879–1948); his.....
Los Angeles, California: 1970. Approximately 5 x 8 inches. Near fine with tiny chip to upper margin. A handbill for a rally outside the 300 North Los Angeles Street Federal Building in Los Angeles, California, protesting the trials of Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and Ericka.....
N.p. Black Business Directory of New England, 1991. 8vo, wraps, 70 pp. A scarce regional directory of African American-owned businesses in New England, published for two years beginning in 1990. The directory lists businesses throughout the region. The book’s introduction lists Umajaa, the fourth principle of Kwanzaa, as an inspiration.....
San Francisco, California: M. Gray, 623 & 625 Clay Street; Portland, Oregon: 101 First Street, [1873]. Lithographed pictorial sheet music cover printed by Grafton Tyler Brown; by special arrangement with W. A. Pond & Co. Folio. Good to very good with moderate edge wear, toning, and handling marks; contemporary William.....
Los Angeles, California: New Age Publishing Company, November 1940. Printed yellow wraps, staple-bound. Good, with moderate wear, soiling, and fading to covers, one corner of a page missing presumably from a business advertisement cut out near the time of publication. A scarce directory documenting the Central Avenue District at its.....
United States: N.d. Double-sided memorial banner measuring 12 x 18 ¼ inches, featuring Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy, with black felt and white and gold acrylic. Two-sided felt banner with machine-stitched binding on one side. The American Negro Public Opinion Service was a civil rights organization established.....
New York City: April 1958. Folded flyer measuring 7 ¾ x 5 ⅝ inches, bifolium. A membership flyer printed in April of 1958 published as part of a fundraising drive around the Little Rock Nine. The NAACP was actively fundraising in 1958 to raise money for legal costs in the.....