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.....
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.....
France: c. 1914-1918. Gelatin silver print measuring 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches. Printed on French carte postale paper. Fine condition. A photograph taken in France of four sergeants in the Co. B 340th Service Battalion. Three of the subjects are identified: Sgt. Eugene Brown of Youngstown, Ohio; Sgt. George.....
Nashville: 1890s. Albumen photograph measuring 4 ½ x 6 ½ on larger mount. Some wear to mount, excellent condition overall with excellent contrast. Alfred Jackson lived from 1812 to 1901 at the Hermitage in Nashville, Tennessee, first as an enslaved person, and later as a tenant farmer and guide to.....
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.....
Mississippi: July 6, 1966. Press photo measuring 8 x 10 inches. Text verso reading “SEGREGATION / MISS.: MEMPHIS TO JACKSON MARCH” and “JUL 6 1966”. A press photo from the Mississippi end of the 1966 March Against Fear, showing a Black man, apparently injured, being carried by a group likely.....
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.....
[St. Louis, Missouri]: 1861. Handwritten letter on Western Department letterhead, 9 x 5 ½ inches bifolium. Docketed on rear “Rough sketch of letter to Maj Gen JC Fremont touching the rendition of a slave.”. In the turbulent summer and autumn of 1861, the headquarters of John C. Frémont’s Western Department.....
Memphis, Tennessee: March 18, 1865. Printed Article 95 inventory form completed in manuscript, recording the effects of Jorden Turner, Private in Captain S. A. Walker’s Company B, 63rd Regiment, United States Infantry. 8 x 10 inches. A scarce Civil War document recording the death and remaining property of Jorden Turner.....
N.p. c. 1870s–1880s. Tintype measuring 3 ⅛ x 2 5/16 inches. A striking photograph of a formally dressed African American man. The large pin below his neck, as well as the watch chain above his waist, are gold and have been deliberately pin-pricked. The headstand, which kept subjects still for.....
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United States: N.p., 1937. Flyer measuring 8 x 10 ½ inches. A flyer advertising the all-Black drama film Sugar Hill Baby (1937). The film, directed by Irwin Franklyn and originally titled Harlem Aristocrat, featured all local actors recruited from the readership of the African-American newspaper The New York Age alongside.....
Chicago or New York: c. 1920. 6 x 9 inches single sided. An anonymous handbill decrying lynching in the United States and advertising the differences in anti-lynching policy between the Republican and Democratic parties. The header states that “Everyone agrees that lynching is the chief crime against the colored man.....
Missouri, Utah, and Hawai’i: c. 1940s. 10 x 12 ½ inch photo album containing approximately 225 photos measuring approximately 5 x 7 ½ inches and smaller, with some later photos (including later prints of older photos) unaffixed. Album excellent. Conditions of photos vary; generally good to excellent. Stowe Teachers College.....
Sedalia, Missouri: 1929. 11 x 18 inches, heavy cardstock. Manuscript note verso reads “Flor Alpino Vals / Vanderbeck”. An advertisement for a performance by the Original Eleven Clouds of Joy, likely an iteration—of which there were many—of the popular Kansas City-based swing jazz band Clouds of Joy. The group was.....
San Francisco, California: c. 1910. Single photograph, approximately 6 ½ x 9 inches, manuscript verso reading “SF Barbary Coast 500 Block of Pacific ”THE SO DIFFERENT” now 550 Pacific Ave 1911”. Appears to be trimmed from a larger photograph. Portion of image cut and pasted with editorial overpainting. A photograph.....
Southest Arkansas and Columbia, South Carolina: early 20th century. Four photographs, three 6 x 7.5 inches and one 7.5 x 9 inches. Exceptional contrast, some creasing and wear, a few chips to margins and one tear, editorial marks of Brown Brothers firm verso, near fine. Photographs annotated verso noting locations.....
Chicago, Illinois: International News Photos, January 1939. Single photograph measuring 5 x 8 inches with typed caption affixed verso. A portrait of activist preacher Owen Whitfield (1891–1965), taken during the 1939 Missouri sharecropper protest. The caption reads in part: “Preacher Owen H. Whitfield, of La Forge, MO., negro preacher.....
Las Vegas, Nevada: 1975. Twenty-eight real photo postcards measuring 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. A collection of real photo postcards of a Black couple enjoying the Lady Luck Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1975. Vegas was one of the earliest places in the United States to desegregate. In.....
Washington, D.C. c. 1945–1955. Forty-five 8 x 10 inch photographs. The Phelps Vocational High School was founded in 1912 as a trade school for African American boys, located in the historically Black neighborhood of Carver Langston. In the tradition of African American industrial education, the school initially specialized in printing.....
Los Angeles, California: Stationers Corporation, 1935–1937. Double-sided sheet measuring 5 ½ x 11 ½ inches. A playbill for the production of Hall Johnson’s "Run Little Chillun" at the Mayan Theatre in Los Angeles. Considered an important product of the Harlem Renaissance, "Run Little Chillun" premiered on Broadway in 1933. Its.....
Tallahassee, Florida: September 1971. Single photograph measuring 6 ¼ x 9 inches. Manuscript caption verso reading “Joyce Warner, Tallahassee, / Miss Black America” with newspaper article affixed and stamped “SEP231971”. A press photo of Joyce Warner, who was crowned Miss Black America in 1971. The Miss Black America competition was.....
New York City: 1936. Single photograph measuring 8 x 9 ½ inches with editorial overpainting. Verso with “Tribune Engraving Room” stamp dated November 1937, two articles featuring the photo with stamps dated March 1936 and December 1937, barcode sticker, and manuscript reading “Josephine Baker”. A photograph of Josephine Baker seated.....
United States: N.p., c. 1917. Lithographic poster measuring 15 ½ x 11 ¼ inches. A poster celebrating the Eighth Infantry Regiment, Illinois National Guard, during World War I. Text on the poster reads: “Eighth Illinois Regiment Now In France / The Regiment was mustered in the U.S. Volunteer Service.....
California or New York: Unknown year. Photograph measuring 5 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches. Brown Brothers stamps verso; marked verso “apple pickers in orchard/ German immigrants working in Calif orchards/ (Germans)/ up Ny State”. A photograph of a group of people in an apple orchard, identified verso as German immigrant.....
United States: Brown Brothers and Santa Fe Passenger Department, c. 1900s–1930s. Fourteen photographs, mainly 8 x 10 inches and 4 ½ x 6 ½ inches, and one 8 x 10 inch negative. Many captioned; Brown Brothers and Santa Fe Passenger Dept stamps verso. Alfalfa came to the western United States.....