Providence, Rhode Island: H.H. Brown, 1833. Lacking wraps. [12pp] booklet measuring 5 x 8 inches. A short booklet reproducing a series of abolitionist principles attributed to the Providence Anti-Slavery Society alongside William Lloyd Garrison’s Declaration of Sentiments from the 1833 convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia. This section.....
Boston, Massachusetts: William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp, April 1861. Single sheet letterpress broadside measuring 18 x 24 ½ inches. Offered here is a “phonographic report” (i.e., it includes the audience’s reaction) of a speech delivered by abolitionist Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) to the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society in Boston on April.....
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.....
United States: 1859/1860. Ten page booklet measuring 5 ½ x 8 inches; article from newspaper pasted in. A copy of Daniel W. Voorhees’ speech in defense of John E. Cook during his trial for participating in the Harpers Ferry raid. The speech was printed in a number of newspapers in.....
London, England: Ellerton and Henderson, 1823. Three page document measuring 8 ½ x 13 ¼ inches. A document produced by the Society for Mitigating and Gradually Abolishing the State of Slavery throughout the British Dominions, better known as the Anti-Slavery Society. The group was founded in London in 1823 by.....
United States: 1930s. 12 ½ x 18 ¾ sheet. A broadside soliciting advertisers for Condé Nast’s publications Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden, and The American Golfer. Printed following the 1929 crash, the broadside’s tactic is to portray Condé Nast magazines’ readers as the people who stay rich, or get.....
Baltimore and Worcester County: 1864-1865. Two documents affixed at top edge, measuring 9 x 6 ¾ and 14 x 8 ½ inches. Tape repairs at folds, some with heavy clear tape, else excellent, good condition overall. With the embossed stamp of the Board of Claims to first document and two.....
Philadelphia: 1927. Handbill measuring 9 x 6 inches affixed to heavy card stock. Some wear and toning, tearing to cardstock mount at verso, quite good overall and very presentable. A handbill advertising a talk at the Thermopylae Baptist Church at 24th and Bolton St. in North Philadelphia, featuring Isadore Martin.....
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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.....
New York: 1916. Small broadsheet measuring 9 ¾ x 6 ¼ inches mounted to backing paper. Chips to margins affecting text, fair condition. A program for a benefit concert for the Manassus Industrial School at the Music School Settlement in New York, featuring performances by Mabel Diggs, Consuelo Pappy, Jessie.....
Lexington, Kentucky: 1980s or 90s. 10 ¾ x 16 inch sheet. Poster for an event at the University of Kentucky featuring KRS-One and Kwame Ture (misspelled “Toure”), formerly known as Stokely Carmichael. Ture was a central figure in the civil rights and Black power movements: among numerous other activities, he.....
Atlanta, Georgia: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1932. Four page booklet measuring 6 x 9 inches. A 1932 booklet summarizing the results of the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching’s findings about the crime, published by the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC). Formed in 1919, the Atlanta-based CIC involved white.....
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.....
Chicago, Illinois: W. Advertising Agency, 1970. 92 pp directory measuring 8 ¼ x 10 ¾ inches. A substantial 1970 directory of Black-owned and Black-managed businesses in Chicago, edited by Donald C. Walker and published by the W. Advertising Agency. The directory lists businesses, professionals, service providers, churches, clubs, restaurants, contractors.....
Vincennes, Indiana: Lost Art Society, 1932. Stapled booklet of four double-sided pages, measuring 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. A booklet advertising a forthcoming “World Business Directory of Negroes”, which was to be put out by the “Lost Art Society”. This was the project of Earnest William Evans (1879–1948); his.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Memphis, Tennessee: c. 1964. Approximately 6.5 x 8.5 inches. A handbill calling for the boycott of Stag Beer. The handbill alleges that although “80 Per Cent of us Drink Stag Beer”, the company employs no African-American salesmen – and that if the A.S. Barboro Distribution company were not discriminating in.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Birmingham, Alabama: c. 1950s. Folded direct mail advertisement measuring 21 x 5 ½ inches, folded into six panels. A promotional mailer for the Booker T. Washington Business College, founded by A.G. Watson in Birmingham in 1939 in response to a shortage of typists and receptionists in his insurance and funeral.....