Geneseo, New York: October 1973. Approximately 18 x 24 inches. Large newspaper advertisement for “Cultural Experience Weekend” at State University of New York, Geneseo, organized by the Activities Commission and Kuumba Weusi Watu, presumably student interest groups. Speakers include Dr. Charles Hurst, then President of Malcom X College in Chicago.....

NP: Blind Boone Concert Company, 1880s-1910. Concert ticket measuring 4 ¼ x 1 ¼ inches. Small chip to corner else fine. A concert ticket, stamped “Complimentary,” for the Blind Boone Concert Co. We are unsure exactly the date of the concert, as Boone performed under this company name into the.....

Hattiesburg: Earl M. Finch, 1944. Sheet music measuring 12 x 9 inches, 4 pp. Signature of a Nabuko Hayashida on front cover. Slight tears at fold, some toning, two small pinholes, very good overall, quite attractive. In Hawaii in May 1942, a battalion of Nisei volunteers was assembled for service.....

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: Lee and Shepard, 1896. First Edition. 8vo, blue cloth, 495 + 416 pp. Rear hinge split to second volume, slight odor, else near fine, very good minus overall. The uncommon survey of the careers of the Hutchinson Family Singers, who spent decades committed to abolitionism and other social causes.....