Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Johnson, Song Publisher, Stationer & Printer, c. early 1860s. Single-sided sheet measuring 5 x 8 inches. A scarce early songsheet printing of “John Brown’s Body,” one of the defining songs of the Union Army and the most famous musical expression of John Brown’s transformation into an antislavery martyr.....
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.....
San Francisco, California: M. Gray, 623 & 625 Clay Street; Portland, Oregon: 101 First Street, [1873]. Lithographed pictorial sheet music cover printed by Grafton Tyler Brown; by special arrangement with W. A. Pond & Co. Folio. Good to very good with moderate edge wear, toning, and handling marks; contemporary William.....
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.....
United States: N.d. Double-sided memorial banner measuring 12 x 18 ¼ inches, featuring Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy, with black felt and white and gold acrylic. Two-sided felt banner with machine-stitched binding on one side. The American Negro Public Opinion Service was a civil rights organization established.....
New York City: April 1958. Folded flyer measuring 7 ¾ x 5 ⅝ inches, bifolium. A membership flyer printed in April of 1958 published as part of a fundraising drive around the Little Rock Nine. The NAACP was actively fundraising in 1958 to raise money for legal costs in the.....
New York City: March 1959. Single leaf measuring 8 ½ x 11, with text on both sides. A membership flyer printed in April of 1958 published as part of a fundraising drive around the Little Rock Nine. The NAACP was actively fundraising in 1958 to raise money for legal costs.....
New York and Washington: Various publishers, 1945–1955. A group of illustrated programs documenting mid-century performances of the dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist Katherine Dunham (1909–2006), one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American dance. Trained in anthropology at the University of Chicago, Dunham conducted field research in Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique.....
N.p. c. 1930s–1940s. Real photo postcard measuring 5 ½ x 3 ⅗ inches. Captioned on negative “THE THREE CHOCOLADE DROPS”. Worn at edges with small amounts of loss to image. Some staining on the verso. A real photo postcard showing two members of the tap dancing troupe The Three Chocolate.....
Nashville, Tennessee: Ambrose, n.d., likely 1910s–1920s. Printed photographic postcard measuring approximately 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Recto with two portraits of Laurence C. Jones, captioned “Laurence C. Jones, Ph. B.” and describing him as founder and president of the Piney Woods Country Life School, “an opportunity school for the.....
Rome, Via Tre Cannelle 16: September 1936 (Anno XIV). Monthly illustrated bulletin, quarto, pictorial wrappers, illustrated throughout. 6 ½ x 9 ½ inches. Italian promotional bulletin issued by Columbia Records highlighting newly released recordings for the Italian market, featuring a fantastic unrecorded illustration of Josephine Baker on the cover. Designed.....
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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.....
Evansville, Indiana: N.p., 1920s. Poster on heavy cardstock measuring 14 x 10 ¾ inches. A poster advertising a fundraising drive to preserve Cedar Hill, the home of Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C. The drive was organized by the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, an early civil rights group then.....
United States: 1924. Felt pennant measuring 15 ½ x 43 inches. Inscribed “Hilda Colthroy” on tag. A felt pennant likely from Saint Paul’s College, an HBCU in Lawrenceville, Virginia. The college was founded in 1888 as Saint Paul Normal and Industrial School by Protestant Episcopal priest James Solomon Russell. Accredited.....
Chicago, Illinois: Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1946. Four page pamphlet measuring 5 ¼ x 4 ⅛ inches. Folded as issued. A scarce CIO campaign pamphlet issued in Chicago for the 1946 congressional election, using the blinding of Isaac Woodard to argue for federal civil rights legislation and labor-backed progressive candidates.....
Omaha, Nebraska: The Metropolitan Press, 1930s. 14 x 21 ½ inch poster. Nat Towles (1905–1963) was a jazz musician and bandleader from New Orleans. His band, first called Nat Towles’ Creole Harmony Kings, was a renowned territory band in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. They would later have residences in.....
Unknown location: after 1950. 7 x 11 inch poster. A small poster for Pearl Bailey with the Louie Bellson Quartet, presented by the United Service Organizations and Department of Defense. Bailey (1918–1990) was a singer, dancer, and actress; she started her career performing at Black nightclubs on the east coast.....
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St. Louis, Missouri: Balmer & Weber, [1852]. Sheet music measuring 10 x 13 ½ inches, 5 pp. Sheet music for Joseph W. Postlewaite’s “St. Louis Greys Quick Step.” Postlewaite (1827–1889) was an African American composer and bandleader, with a somewhat mysterious background: apparently well-educated, he came to St. Louis in.....
Philadelphia: Firth, Meignen & Co., Publishers & Importers of Music and Musical Instruments, No. 41 Chestnut Street, [c. 1837]. Seven pages, complete, including dance figures. Folio sheet music. A rare early American operatic dance arrangement by Francis Johnson (1792–1844), widely regarded as the first published Black composer in the United.....
New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co., [c. 1914]. Folio sheet music, illustrated color pictorial cover. 5 pp. (including cover). Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. A dance-era publication composed by James Reese Europe (1881–1919) and introduced by the celebrated ballroom team Vernon and Irene Castle during the height.....
New York: G. Ricordi & Co., [c. 1914–1915]. Folio sheet music, 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches, illustrated pictorial cover. 5 pp. (including cover). A dance-era waltz by the influential African American bandleader and composer James Reese Europe (1881–1919), issued during the height of the early twentieth-century ballroom dance revival.....
New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co., 1914. Folio sheet music, illustrated color pictorial cover. 5 pp. (including cover), 10 ½ x 13 ½ inches. Typical light edge wear; bright example with strong color. A classic dance-era publication composed by James Reese Europe (1881–1919) in collaboration with Ford T. Dabney.....
London: Musical Bouquet Office, 192 High Holborn; J. Allen, 20 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, [c. 1850]. Folio sheet music, 4 pp, 9 ½ x 13 ¼ inches. Lithographed title with portrait illustration. An early printed musical tribute to the Afro-Cuban singer Donna Maria Martinez Morena, one of the earliest Black.....
New York: Mills Music, Inc., 1938. Folio sheet music, illustrated pictorial wraps. 9 x 12 inches. 6 pp. (including cover). A visually striking promotional sheet music cover issued in connection with the Cotton Club revue Cotton Club Parade (1938), featuring large photographic portraits of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Cab Calloway.....
Chicago, Illinois: Schlink Studio, likely 1910s–1920s. Real photo postcard measuring approximately 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Studio portrait of an African American musician standing in overcoat, hat, gloves, and cane beside a chair displaying a saxophone and clarinet. Divided postcard back. A real photo postcard portrait of an African.....