Autograph Letter Signed Discussing a Speaking Engagement and Involvement in “Unpopular Movements,” 1855.
New Britain: 1855. Letter measuring 8 x 5 inches, folded. Fine condition.
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Pair of Ambrotypes of Mary and Moses Penrock, Members of the Kennett Square Underground Railroad Network, by Isaac Rehn, c. 1854.
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.....
Anti-Slavery Bazaar.
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.....
Fifth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cincinnati Lane Seminary : Together With the Laws of the Institution.and a Catalogue of the Officers and Students. November, 1834.
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.....
ALS by the Author and Actor Fanny Kemble to an Editor Regarding the Publication of an Article.
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.....
“Garrison and His Creed (Caption Title)” [Letter to a Newspaper Editor Defending William Lloyd Garrison in Response to an Article Written by Eli Thayer]
Brooklyn: 1893. Single page. Some tears at creases, else about fine, very good overall. A letter written by Thaddeus Hyatt to the editor of the New York Tribune, in response to a letter written by Eli Thayer on William Lloyd Garrison entitled “Garrison and his Creed.” Hyatt takes issue with.....
The Report and Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Providence Anti-Slavery Society. [Incomplete Copy]
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.....
Wendell Phillips on the War.
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.....
Two Photographs of John Brown’s Sons Owen and Jason Outside Their Cabins in the San Gabriel Mountains.
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.....
Copy of a Speech Delivered by Daniel W. Voorhees to the Jury in the Trial of John E. Cook, Printed in An Unknown Newspaper.
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.....
Medal Commemorating the United Kingdom’s 1807 Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
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”.....
A Brief View of the Nature and Effects of Negro Slavery, As It Exists in the Colonies of Great Britain.
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.....
ALS by Abolitionist Politician Joshua Reed Giddings Concerning a Visit to Dover, New Hampshire.
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.....
Carte-de-Visite Vignette Portrait of the Anti-Slavery Author Rachel W. Moore.
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.....
The Rich Are Always With Us.
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.....
Photo Album of an 1895–1896 Trip around the United States, Including Shots of Students at the Hampton Institute’s Whittier School.
United States: 1895–1896. 182 photographs mainly measuring 3 x 4 inches with some larger, mounted on heavy cardstock in a photo album. Some with manuscript captions. Several pages of album detached; slight damage and wear to pages and damage to binding; photos excellent to Near Fine. A photo album documenting.....
Press Photograph of Shirley Chisholm and John Conyers During the Supreme Court Nomination of Clement Haynsworth.
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.....
Eight Unpublished Slides of John Elray Sanford aka Redd Foxx, Taken for a Jet Magazine Shoot, 1976.
Los Angeles: 1976. Eight kodachrome slides showing Foxx, with one possibly related slide of a woman included as well. Unpublished, originally taken for the May 6, 1976 issue of Jet Magazine (Vol. 50 No. 7), which is also included here. Fine condition, magazine nearly fine with slightest tanning. Redd Foxx.....
Signed Portrait of the Boxer Cecil Phillips.
Washington or Environs: 1938. Silver gelatin print measuring 9 ⅛ x 6 ⅛ inches. Some creasing, very good. A signed photograph of the boxer Cecil Phillips - of whom we find no record besides a negative in the Smithsonian’s Scurlock collection of this image. The photograph is signed twice by.....
Portrait of William L. Dawson, with Accompanying Correspondence Between Dawson and Rolla Foley, Musical Director at Wilmington College, Ohio.
Tuskegee: 1949. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 8 x 10 inches, with two typed letters, signed, one from Dawson and one from Rolla Foley. Identifying marks to verso of photograph, generally fine condition. A portrait of William L. Dawson, taken by P.H. Polk, during Dawson’s tenure at the Tuskegee Institute, where.....
Photograph of a Seated Woman, c. 1910s.
New York: 1910-1920. Photograph measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches on larger mount. Some fading to image, wear to mount, very good. Walter Baker was a founder of the Colored Photographers Association and owned and operated a studio and school on Lenox Avenue at 133rd Street in New York in.....
Portrait of an African American Woman in New York City, c. 1915–1920.
New York City: Walter Baker’s Studio. Photograph measuring 4 x 6 inches with photographer’s stamp and with pencil markings verso. Previously affixed to a mount with some black cardstock still affixed verso. Some wear mainly not intersecting with subject. Photo with fading to bottom right corner. Studio portrait of an.....
Cabinet Card Portrait of Ambrose Clairmonte of Bridgetown, Barbados, 1890s.
London: 1890s. Small cabinet card photograph measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ on larger mount. Slight fading, excellent condition. A portrait of Ambrose Clairmont of Bridgetown, Barbados, taken in London at the J.L. Huntly studio in Highbury. Clairmonte was a tailor and graduate of Harrison College in Bridgetown, Barbados. His.....
The Black Panther Manifesto / If the Fascists Attempt to Murder Chairman Bobby.
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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Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915. [Memorial Fan]
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.....