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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
United States: 1930s–1970s. 33 items: 28 postcards and five pamphlets. A collection of postcards and pamphlets for hotels, resorts, and some planned neighborhoods around the US—mainly in New York, New Jersey, and Florida—with most advertising that they did not accept Jewish visitors. Many of the resorts’ restrictions are stated implicitly.....
The Bronx, New York: c. 1937–1945. Approximately 120 drawings with one short school essay and one photograph, captioned verso. Drawings generally measuring 9 x 12 inches. Conditions vary; drawings generally fairly delicate with damage to margins. A collection of artworks produced by Joan Meredith Legg (1931–2012) and her future husband.....
New York City: Culver Pictures Inc., N.d. Photograph measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¾ inches. With Culver Pictures stamps verso, covered by several later Culver Pictures and bar code stickers. Slight damage to edges, particularly corners; spot of more significant wear at upper left edge. A photograph of what appears.....
Sterling, Pennsylvania: Brown Brothers, 1912. Five photographs; four measuring 8 x 10 inches and one 5 x 8 inches. Most with manuscript captions verso. Five photographs depicting Chinese farmworkers in New York around 1912. In the late 19th century, many Chinese people, facing increasing anti-Chinese hostility, left the west coast.....
New York City: April 10 and April 18, 1865. Two autograph letters signed, "R. G. Horton," on printed letterhead of The Day-Book, 162 Nassau Street, New York, published by Van Evrie, Horton & Co. Together 3 pp, 5 x 8 inches. A pair of letters written at the offices of.....
Kings County, Province of New York [Brooklyn]: 1747; and Kings County, New York, 1789–90. Three manuscript documents on two pages, measuring approximately 8 ¼ x 13 inches; relating to county taxation and court administration in Kings County, including two early colonial warrants directed to the assessors and collector of “Brookland”;.....
Queens, New York: 1982. 6 x 8 ½ inch flyer. Flyer for the “Great M.C. Showdown” at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, New York, hosted by Mr. Sweety-G. According to his personal website, Mr. Sweety-G—aka Glenn Toby—was working with some of the biggest hip hop artists of the.....
New York: The Resistance, 1968. Single sided flyer, 8 ½ x 11, fine condition. A flyer for a protest at the Newark Selective Service Building organized by The Resistance on May 6, 1968. The bulk of the flyer reproduces the poem “I sing of Olaf glad and big” by e.e......
New York City: 1968. 20 x 28 inches. Folded with some tears at folds, slightly wrinkled; inscribed “Sam – / You must come! / Send money / Lou Dorfsman”. An invitation to the “Recooperation Baths”, which seems to be an annual get-together for Cooper Union alumni. Cooper Union was founded.....
Brooklyn, New York: 1964. Twenty-eight page scrapbook measuring 11 x 14 inches. Containing forty-one photographs measuring 5 x 7 inches and smaller and fifty-eight pieces of ephemera, forty-three of which are filled-in entry slips from a contest. The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on the.....
Dobbs Ferry, New York: 1905–1906. Approximately ninety-five pieces: three affixed photographs of 7 x 9 inches and smaller, eighty-one of 3 ¾ x 4 inches and smaller, and four of 1 x 1 inches and smaller; two loose 3 x 5 inch photos; two affixed printed sheets and three loose.....