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.....
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.....
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.....
Massachusetts: 1880s-1890s. Albumen and Silver Gelatin Prints, 9 ¾ x 8 ¾ - 8 x 6 inches on larger mounts, three with credits to Conant, photographer, one credited to Benjamin Freeman and one uncredited. Varying wear, very good condition overall. The Isaac Royall house in Medford, which still exists as.....
Washington, D.C. Federal Bureau of Investigation, December 13, 1968. Four-page flyer measuring 10 ½ x 8 inches. A 1968 FBI wanted flyer for Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party and one of the most visible radical Black political figures of the late 1960s. Issued on December.....
Los Angeles, California: 1970. Approximately 5 x 8 inches. Near fine with tiny chip to upper margin. A handbill for a rally outside the 300 North Los Angeles Street Federal Building in Los Angeles, California, protesting the trials of Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and Ericka.....
Los Angeles, California: New Age Publishing Company, November 1940. Printed yellow wraps, staple-bound. Good, with moderate wear, soiling, and fading to covers, one corner of a page missing presumably from a business advertisement cut out near the time of publication. A scarce directory documenting the Central Avenue District at its.....
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.....
New York City: Bruno of Hollywood and other uncredited photographers, 1950s–1960s. Photo album measuring 9 ¼ x 11 ¼ inches, containing forty-seven photographs, mainly 4 x 5 inches and smaller with some 8 x 10. Most photos loosely affixed with some having detached. An album of photographs of African American.....
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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.....
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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.....
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.....
Los Angeles, California, and Albuquerque, New Mexico: 1927–1933. Three letters totaling seven pages and one postcard. Two letters from 1927 and one from 1928; postcard appears to be stamped 1933. Letters from friends in Los Angeles to James M. Jones, who has moved away to attend Howard University. The friends.....
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.....
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.....
Coney Island: c. early 1950s. 5 x 7 inch gelatin silver photograph. The group stands behind and beside a mock bar counter bearing painted signage reading “Souvenir from Coney Island” and “The Lost Week-End.” Behind them appears a backdrop sign for the “Zombie Café – Drinks on the house.” 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.....
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.....
New York City: United Press International, August 18, 1965. Photograph measuring 10 x 8 inches. Caption in photo; with UPI stamp, manuscript, and later sticker verso. A press photo of LA police arresting Black men outside the NOI’s Muhammad’s Mosque of Islam No. 27, in a raid in the aftermath.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Cooperstown, New York: likely 1940. Eight postcards: one 3 ½ x 8 inch and seven 3 ½ x 5 ½ inch. All with Brown Brothers stamps and captions verso. James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) was an American author from Cooperstown, New York - the town was named for his father, William.....