Boston: JE Farwell, 1863? Single sheet 16mo programs, double sided. Fine condition. Two programs for performances by Morris Brothers Pell and Trowbridge shows in Boston, advertising Saturday afternoon performances at their Opera House before the fire of 1864 which led to their move to St. Louis. The performances feature Thomas.....
Richmond: N.A.A.C.P., 1957. 8vo, wraps, 30 pp. Some light wear, staple holes to edge, original owner’s address and postage mark on back cover, overall very good plus. An uncommon NAACP publication, published right after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, with a range of articles on racism and segregation.....
France: None Stated, 1900. Postcard measuring 5 ½ x 3 ⅝ inches. Fine condition. Woody Headspeth - known also as Woody Hadspath or Hedspath, as is written here - was an African-American cyclist who raced mostly in France due to racial prejudice in the United States. Headspeth raced until he.....
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.....
American: 1840s-1850s. Ninth-plate daguerreotype measuring 2 ⅜ x 1 ⅞ inches in thermoplastic case. Generally excellent condition. A bust-length daguerreotype portrait of an African American woman with coiffed hair. Her cheeks have been tinted pink and her bowtie is blue.
Vickburg: M.T. Frederichs, 1880s-1890s. Cabinet card photograph measuring 5 ½ x 4 on larger mount. Some light wear to mount, very good. A portrait of an African-American woman in a dress, holding a parasol and with a hat curiously perched on a prop branch nearby. We find a record of.....
Various, including Middlesex County, Virginia and Radnor Township, Pennsylvania]: [circa-1920's]. 1920s. Oblong photo album, black cloth over cardstock, measuring 10" x 7 1/4." With seventeen black paper leaves with seventy-nine black and white snapshot photographs. Photograph adhesive mounted to rectos and versos. Five leaves in about the center of the.....
American: 1860s. Tintype measuring 2 ½ x 1 ½ in larger mount. Fine contrast and condition. An exceptionally exposed and preserved portrait of a young African-American man in a studio setting, taken in the 1860s or early 1870s when the arched mount seen here was in use.
N.P. 1880s-1890s. Albumen photograph measuring 6 x 3 ⅞ on larger mount. Chip with loss to corner of mount, retouched to add a moustache and a tie, good overall with fading. A cabinet card reproduction of an earlier photograph, captioned “Jim Fox,” with ink additions to the eyebrows, mustache and.....
Southern United States: 1890s. Albumen photograph on mount, image measuring 4 x 2 ½ inches. Some foxing to mount, image fine with excellent contrast. An uncommon image of an African-American family of six in an outdoor setting, likely in the American South in the 1880s-1890s. One of the children sits.....
Washington: Department of Labor, 1898. First Edition. 8vo, 1-35 of 135 pp (entire issue offered). Some light wear to wraps, near fine condition. The first of three studies written by Du Bois on African-American life in the United States in collaboration with Carroll Wright, who became the Commissioner of the.....
Mostly Atlanta: 1940s-1950s. Leatherette album measuring 12 x 9 inches. With over 225 images, most 4 ½ x 2 ¾ inches. Very well preserved and nearly complete with three empty slots, about fine overall. A compelling visual record of the childhood of Mable Williams of Atlanta, Georgia, a high school.....
New Haven: William Notman Company, 1872. Albumen photographs measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mounts, with the William Notman company information on versos. Near fine condition with some slight fading at images at margins, otherwise fine, quite well preserved. A fine trio of cabinet cards showing the African-American.....
Massachusetts: 1926. Ink on paper, 18 ½ x 23 ½ inches. Alexander Johnson, an African-American musician from New Bedford, enlisted in the army at age 16 and was believed for some time to be the first African-American musician in the Union Army. He mustered into mustered into Company "C" of.....
Newburgh: Abel A. Peck, 1860s. 3 ½ x 2 ¼ albumen print on larger mount. A carte-de-visite copy of a folk art painting probably painted c. 1820s-1830s. William Seymore (1786-1846) was a Methodist minister in Bellvale, New York. Edward Ruttenber and L.H. Clark, in their 1881 History of Orange County.....
Fort Ethan Allen: 1910. Gelatin silver print mounted to board, 16 ¼ x 14 ½ inches. The 10th Cavalry was one of the original “Buffalo Soldier” regiments of the post-Civil War segregated U.S. Army, first seeing action in the Indian Wars. Their band is shown here most likely during their.....
Los Angeles: 66 Signs of Neon, 1971. [12] pages. Illustrated wrappers in tan and black, Numerous illustrations, 13 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Some minor wear and creasing, very good minus condition overall. Shortly following the Watts Uprising, a group of artists led by Noah Purifoy and Judson Powell began.....
Columbus: 1950s. Three items including: "Look. It's your chance to see the Mammoth Sacred Art Demonstration." Printed handbill, 11 x 6 inches. "Pierce's Wood Carving Exhibit: Over 1000 Carvings, Educational, Fascinating, Carved with a Pocket Knife." [2] pages, 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches on one folding sheet; Admission ticket.....
New York: Committee to Defend the Panther 21, 1970. First Edition. The Panther 21, who were eventually acquitted of plots to carry out rifle attacks on police stations and an education center, had widespread support from varied groups including various church groups, Abbie Hoffman and Leonard Bernstein. Communist Party members.....
Massachusetts: 1969. Silver gelatin photographs, some mounted, various sizes, most around 6x8 inches. Some wear and creases to mounts, photographs range from good to fine with fine contrast, some photos with noticeable flaws. Very good overall. An evocative collection of photographs of several important musicians taken in Boston in 1969.....
V.P. 1960s-1970s. Fifty-one photographs, most measuring 3.5 x 5 inches, in hard plastic sleeves, as found. From the estate of Drew Bundini Brown. Generally fine condition with some normal fading to images, with subject identification stickers on sleeves. Drew ‘Bundini’ Brown worked as Muhammad Ali’s cornerman from 1963 onward, after.....
Washington: Murray Brothers, 1909. 8vo, wraps, 25 pp. Disbound with wraps present, good condition overall. In 1909, after then-Senator Joseph Foraker had advocated on behalf of the soldiers involved in the Brownsville Affair, a ceremony was held in his honor at the A.M.E. Church in Washington D.C. in Foraker’s honor.....
New York: 1940s-1950s. Three photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches, menu measuring 10 x 3 3/4. Cab Calloway and his band began performing at the Cotton Club in 1931, enjoying an initial three year stint with many sporadic returns in the subsequent decades. Calloway’s manager, Irving Mills, played a large.....
Chicago: 1969. 21 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches. Some light toning and edgewear, near fine condition overall. The first example of this poster we have encountered, which shows Judge Julius Hoffman, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and President Richard Nixon. We find no other records, and can only assume it was.....
Chicago: 1969. Poster. 24 x 20 inches. Minimal wear, fine condition. An iconic poster protesting the arrest of the Chicago 8 on conspiracy charges relating to the protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention. The group, originally as eight members, consisted of Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, founders of the Youth.....