New York: Late 1920s. First Edition. Gelatin silver print measuring 8 x 10 inches. Some editorial marks to verso, very good contrast, very good overall. The Dunbar Apartments were one of the first developments built for African-Americans, in a period in which there was a shortage of housing in Harlem.....
New York City: July 1964. Photograph measuring 7 ½ x 10 inches. Editorial overpainting and caption recto; stamps and newspaper clipping verso. A photograph of, left to right: March on Washington organizer Bayard Rustin; NAACP Director of Counsel Jack Greenberg; Whitney Young, Jr., of the National Urban League; James Farmer.....
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New York City: c. 1938. Handbill measuring 5 ¾ x 9 inches. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was established in 1933 (replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration) to provide paid employment and other aid to unemployed people during the Great Depression. In 1937, the WPA laid off half.....
New York City: Unlimited Creative Enterprises Inc., 1990. 136pp booklet measuring 7 x 10 ½ inches. A directory of Black-owned businesses in New York City, published with an eye to improving the economic standing of Black people in the city—in the words of the publication’s owner, Celeste Morris, to “commit[...].....
New York City: George Fenmore Associates, 1973. Sixteen page booklet measuring 9 x 12 inches. The Negro Ensemble Company was opened in 1967 by actor and playwright Douglas Turner Ward, actor and producer Robert Hooks, and producer Gerald Krone, with a grant from the Ford Foundation. It provided free theater.....
New York: 1917. Four photographs measuring appx. 8 x 10 inches. A collection of photographs showing the funeral procession of Robert Holmes, who died exchanging fire with a burglar in New York City in 1917. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Holmes was the first African American to die in the.....
Hudson? 1938. Chip with loss to corner, discoloration to lower portion, overall good with fine contrast. An advertisement for a game between the barnstorming team the Mohawk Colored Giants and Washington D.C's Hillsdale Club, taking place in the Colonels’ stadium near Hudson, New York in 1938.[1] The Giants reformed in.....