New Britain: 1855. Letter measuring 8 x 5 inches, folded. Fine condition. An interesting letter from Elihu Burritt to S.H. Dale, Esq., likely of Maine, discussing an invitation to a speaking engagement. Burritt expresses reluctance to address the unnamed association, due to his involvement in “unpopular movements.” He writes, “.....
Philadelphia: 1854. Ninth plate ambrotypes in a union case, measuring 2 ½ x 2 ⅛ inches (visible) in larger case. With the identification of (Isaac) Rehn, with his imprint and “Patented July 4 & 11, 1854” imprinted on the case. A fine pair. A striking pair of ambrotypes of Mary.....
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.....
Cincinnati: Corey and Fairbank, 1834. First Edition. 47 pages, complete; 8 7/8" x 5 ⅜." Slight odor else near fine, very good minus overall. The Lane Seminary debates were perhaps the most extended and famous of many colonization versus emancipation debates that happened in the 1830s. “Founded in 1829, Lane.....
London, United Kingdom: likely late 1800s. Single four page letter measuring 4 ½ x 7 inches. Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble (1809–1893) was a British actor, writer, and later abolitionist. After her initial retirement from acting, she married Pierce Mease Butler, maternal grandson of American Founding Father Pierce Butler. Butler and.....
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.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Johnson, Song Publisher, Stationer & Printer, c. early 1860s. Single-sided sheet measuring 5 x 8 inches. A scarce early songsheet printing of “John Brown’s Body,” one of the defining songs of the Union Army and the most famous musical expression of John Brown’s transformation into an antislavery martyr.....
Los Angeles, California: late 1880s. Two photographs measuring approximately 4 ½ x 7 ½ inches. Pasadena Historical Society stamps verso. One with manuscript caption verso including “Mtn Home of John Brown’s Sons Located just south of Brown’s Peak between Millards Cañon + arroyo seco”. Owen Brown (1824–1889) and Jason Brown.....
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.....
Concord, New Hampshire: December 1859. Single two-page letter measuring 5 x 8 ¼ inches. A letter from Joshua Reed Giddings (1795–1864) written from Concord, New Hampshire, to A. H. Barnes, Esq., in Dover. Giddings was a prominent abolitionist, lawyer, and congressman from Ohio. He was famously censured by the House.....
Philadelphia: Henszey and Co., 1860s. Albumen photograph measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ inches on mount. Excellent condition with clipped corners and minimal wear. Rachel Wilson Moore, a Quaker from Philadelphia who had strong anti-slavery views, traveled to the Caribbean and South America in the 1860s to try to save.....
Washington, D.C. United Press International, September 1969. Single photograph measuring 7 x 9 inches with typed caption photographed. United Press International stamp verso. A press photograph of Representatives John Conyers and Shirley Chisholm with a caption describing their opposition to Nixon’s nomination for US Supreme Court of Clement Haynsworth. The.....
United States: 191–1964. Twenty-seven letters, two typed documents (totaling four pages), six photographs, and nine pieces of ephemera including two of Haynes’ heavily stamped passports. One of the typed documents and two of the letters belong to Olyve Jeter, Haynes’ second wife. Many items affixed to loose scrapbook leaves. George.....
Chicago, Illinois: W. Advertising Agency, 1970. 92 pp directory measuring 8 ¼ x 10 ¾ inches. A substantial 1970 directory of Black-owned and Black-managed businesses in Chicago, edited by Donald C. Walker and published by the W. Advertising Agency. The directory lists businesses, professionals, service providers, churches, clubs, restaurants, contractors.....
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.....
Washington, D.C. Federal Bureau of Investigation, December 13, 1968. Four-page flyer measuring 10 ½ x 8 inches. A 1968 FBI wanted flyer for Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party and one of the most visible radical Black political figures of the late 1960s. Issued on December.....
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.....
New York City: 1970. Single letter measuring 8 x 10.5 inches, one single-sided sheet. In March of 1969, eight members of the Black Panther Party (BPP) were arrested in Chicago, accused of conspiracy to incite a riot. In April, twenty-one BPP members were arrested in New York City and charged.....
United States: April 14, 1969. Photograph measuring 9 ¾ x 8 inches. With manuscript caption, date stamp, and later sticker verso. A photo of Southern University New Orleans students milling around the American flag on campus, with a small unidentified flag apparently affixed to the campus building in the background.....
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Detroit, Michigan: The Malcom X Society, August 1968. 68 pp booklet measuring 5 ½ x 8 inches, in paper wraps. Wraps wrinkled with discoloration especially to margins, with unrelated sticker and manuscript inside the front and back covers respectively; good. Contents generally excellent with toning to edges. The revised edition.....
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.....