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.....
Cincinnati: Corey and Fairbank, 1834. First Edition. 47 pages, complete; 8 7/8" x 5 ⅜." Slight odor else near fine, very good minus overall. The Lane Seminary debates were perhaps the most extended and famous of many colonization versus emancipation debates that happened in the 1830s. “Founded in 1829, Lane.....
Washington, D.C. ca. 1930s–1940s. Silver gelatin photograph, 5 x 7 inches, showing Father Divine standing behind a desk or table, hands resting before him, in suit and striped tie. Pulled from a scrapbook, with paper remnants on verso; fine contrast and very good overall. Although this particular print is not.....
United States: 1895–1896. 182 photographs mainly measuring 3 x 4 inches with some larger, mounted on heavy cardstock in a photo album. Some with manuscript captions. Several pages of album detached; slight damage and wear to pages and damage to binding; photos excellent to Near Fine. A photo album documenting.....
Washington, D.C. United Press International, September 1969. Single photograph measuring 7 x 9 inches with typed caption photographed. United Press International stamp verso. A press photograph of Representatives John Conyers and Shirley Chisholm with a caption describing their opposition to Nixon’s nomination for US Supreme Court of Clement Haynsworth. The.....
Los Angeles: 1976. Eight kodachrome slides showing Foxx, with one possibly related slide of a woman included as well. Unpublished, originally taken for the May 6, 1976 issue of Jet Magazine (Vol. 50 No. 7), which is also included here. Fine condition, magazine nearly fine with slightest tanning. Redd Foxx.....
Washington or Environs: 1938. Silver gelatin print measuring 9 ⅛ x 6 ⅛ inches. Some creasing, very good. A signed photograph of the boxer Cecil Phillips - of whom we find no record besides a negative in the Smithsonian’s Scurlock collection of this image. The photograph is signed twice by.....
Tuskegee: 1949. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 8 x 10 inches, with two typed letters, signed, one from Dawson and one from Rolla Foley. Identifying marks to verso of photograph, generally fine condition. A portrait of William L. Dawson, taken by P.H. Polk, during Dawson’s tenure at the Tuskegee Institute, where.....
New York: 1910-1920. Photograph measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches on larger mount. Some fading to image, wear to mount, very good. Walter Baker was a founder of the Colored Photographers Association and owned and operated a studio and school on Lenox Avenue at 133rd Street in New York in.....
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.....
London: 1890s. Small cabinet card photograph measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ on larger mount. Slight fading, excellent condition. A portrait of Ambrose Clairmont of Bridgetown, Barbados, taken in London at the J.L. Huntly studio in Highbury. Clairmonte was a tailor and graduate of Harrison College in Bridgetown, Barbados. His.....
New Haven: Black Panther Party, 1970. Double sided broadside on newsprint measuring 17 ½ x 11 inches, with horizontal fold. Small closed tears and foxing to margin, light tanning, very good overall. An uncommon Black Panther imprint printed during the 1970 New Haven trials surrounding the death of Alex Rackley.....
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Cincinnati / St. Louis: George H. Jung Co., 1920s-1930s. Four panel fan measuring appx. 4 x 7.5 inches. Staining to front panel, some chips and wear, good plus overall. A fan produced by the George F. Jung Co. of Cincinnati for the Price & Walker Funeral Home of St. Louis.....
Asheville: 1910-1920. Silver gelatin print measuring 8 x 10 inches. Some stains and wear, information on verso, good condition. A photograph of the staff at Asheville’s historic Grove Park Inn, taken c. 1910-1920 by the photographer Herbert W. Pelton, who operated a studio in Asheville and took many pictures around.....
Bakersfield: C.A. Nelson, 1890s. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 5 ½ x 3 ⅞ inches on larger mount. Heavy wear to mount, some staining to margin of photograph, wear and creases and a closed tear to mat, fair to good overall. An incredible image of a young African-American man, finely dressed.....
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.....
New Orleans and Environs: c. 1880. Includes the following images: Picking Cotton. 7 x 4 in. on cardstock mount (sunned at lower edge). Outdoor view showing many African Americans harvesting cotton. -- Outdoor view of 2 paddlewheel steamships with a crowded dock. 7 1/4 x 4 in. unmounted albumen. --.....
Pocahantas: P.W. Poff, 1860s-1870s. Albumen carte de visite photographs measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ inches on slightly larger mounts. Some fading to some images, one in fine condition, good to very good overall. A series of images taken by P.W. Poff, who also operated a studio at Bluefield, West.....
American: 1860s-1870s. Ninth plate tintype measuring 3 x 1 ¾ inches in early tintype period paper mount. Excellent contrast. A striking image of an African-American man, formally dressed in a bowtie and jacket with his hands on both hips. The mount is from the early tintype period, circa 1860s-1870s. Excellent.....
Tuskegee: 1914. Oblong 8vo, decorative pebbled cloth over thin boards, 8 x 5 inches. With fourteen pages of inscriptions from fellow classmates. Some pages detached, wear and toning, good condition. An interesting book of dedicatory verse to a student in the Tuskegee Institute class of 1915, from his classmates, all.....
Pennsylvania and France: 1890s-1910s. Five Cabinet Card Photographs and one Mounted Photograph taken at the L. Vasseur Studio in Paris. Generally fine condition, one cabinet card with chips to mount. A small but very compelling group of images recovered from a family collection, documenting an African-American family from Pennsylvania. Five.....
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.....
Holly Springs: 1944. First Edition. 8vo, wraps, 20 pp. Wraps detached at spine and with some tears, stain to front wrap and some ink residue, good condition. A privately printed collection of poems by Richard Pitts, who at the time was a student at Rust College in Holly Springs. According.....
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.....
France: c. 1914-1918. Gelatin silver print measuring 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches. Printed on French carte postale paper. Fine condition. A photograph taken in France of four sergeants in the Co. B 340th Service Battalion. Three of the subjects are identified: Sgt. Eugene Brown of Youngstown, Ohio; Sgt. George.....