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.....
New York City: 1970. Single letter measuring 8 x 10.5 inches, one single-sided sheet. In March of 1969, eight members of the Black Panther Party (BPP) were arrested in Chicago, accused of conspiracy to incite a riot. In April, twenty-one BPP members were arrested in New York City and charged.....
Ohio: 1935–2008. Approximately 426 pieces: 414 photographs and twelve pieces of printed ephemera. Of the photographs, seventy-seven are 8 x 10 inches and smaller; forty-seven 5 x 10 inches and smaller; ninety-nine 4 x 6 inches and smaller; forty-nine 3.5 x 6 inches and smaller; 112 3.5 x 4.5 inches.....
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.....
Chicago or New York: c. 1920. 6 x 9 inches single sided. An anonymous handbill decrying lynching in the United States and advertising the differences in anti-lynching policy between the Republican and Democratic parties. The header states that “Everyone agrees that lynching is the chief crime against the colored man.....
Tuskegee, Alabama: early 1900s. Six photographs, approximately 8 x 10 inches. Inventory numbers and signature of Hyman, photographer, whose first name is unknown, in negatives. Tuskegee University was founded in July 1881 as the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers by formerly enslaved leader Lewis Adams and former Confederate Colonel.....
Southest Arkansas and Columbia, South Carolina: early 20th century. Four photographs, three 6 x 7.5 inches and one 7.5 x 9 inches. Exceptional contrast, some creasing and wear, a few chips to margins and one tear, editorial marks of Brown Brothers firm verso, near fine. Photographs annotated verso noting locations.....
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.....
Washington, D.C. 1971. Approximately 7 x 9 inches. Editorial mark to text recto, World Wide Photos stamp verso. Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005) was a Democratic politician and the first Black woman elected to US Congress, representing New York’s 12th congressional district from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, she became the first.....
St. John, New Brunswick, British North America: April 1835. Three 8 x 13 inch pages, folded. Toning at folds; fine. With a clipping from the Quebec Gazette Monthly, March 1835. Little biographical information is available on Thomas Kent, save that he was a sailor aboard the Britannia and that the.....
Unknown location: 1890s. Seven items: two 6.5 x 8.5” prints, one sepia and one black and white; the latter with Brown Brothers stamp verso; some chipping at edges, fingerprint on one figure possibly on negative, very good. One 4 x 5” print and 4 x 6” negative in folder labeled.....
Augusta, Georgia: January 1818. Single letter, three 9 x 16 inch pages, letters with some tape repairs and stray holes at folds, still quite legible. A letter written by Calvin Barnard to his friend Asa Holman of Bolton, Massachusetts, describing the former’s trip from Boston to Augusta, South Carolina from.....
Butte, Montana: 1911–1922. Approximately 113 pieces: fifty-one letters to Thomas Williams; thirteen to various politicians, mainly members of Congress; and twenty to Williams’ advocates, mostly from Congresspeople; fifteen miscellaneous items, including Grand Army of the Republic materials and Williams’ citizenship document; and fourteen empty envelopes. Materials date from between 1911.....
Petersburg, Virginia: 1864. Single letter, four 5 x 8 inch pages folded. M. Herbert Wood (c. 1839–deceased) was an officer of the 23rd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, during the American Civil War. This regiment, which consisted of African-American enlisted men with white officers, was part of the 4th Division.....
Richmond, Virginia: 1864. Single letter measuring 8 x 5 inches, one double-sided sheet. A letter written by “Cousin Amanda” of Richmond, Virginia, detailing the price and quality of cloth, cotton spools, and flour available to her late in the American Civil War. The Confederacy was under a blockade, and Union.....
United States, Germany, and others: 1862–1869. Seven letters, approximately twenty-six total pages, most about 8 x 5 inches. One letter dated 1862; one dated 1863; two dated 1864; one dated 1869; two without date. Two of the letters are written in French (untranslated). Tracy Peck (1838–1921) was born in Bristol.....
South Carolina: 1865. Single letter measuring 7.5 x 10 inches folded, one double-sided sheet, with stampless envelope. George Harpole Vannada (1844–1928) was a private, promoted to corporal, in Company I of the 25th Indiana Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The 25th Infantry was a volunteer regiment, mustered in August.....
Fort Knox, Kentucky: 1930s. One 4 x 5.5 inch notebook; approximately 150 handwritten pages, with many more blank. The Civilian Conservation Corps was a New Deal work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 and provided manual labor jobs to young men hit by the Great Depression. The men.....
Havana, Cuba: 1917. The Cuban Red Cross Society was formed in 1909 by Dr. Diego Tamayo y Figueredo. In 1917, when this photograph was taken, it was headed by Madame Mariana Seva de Menocal, wife of then-President Mario García Menocal, who was in office 1913–1921. Cuba had joined the Allies.....
Fresno, California: 1936. Approximately 7 x 30 inches. A photograph of the attendees of a yearly meeting of an affinity group for young Japanese-American Christians in California. The first YPCC retreats were held in 1920 with the help of the Japanese YMCA and YWCA, and the group continued its meetings.....
Unknown location: 1920s. Approximately 10 x 13 inches. Some tears and chips at edges, very good contrast, editorial overpainting on recto, overall very good. Marks on verso reading “Julian Eltinge Hippodrome March 12”. Julian Eltinge (1881/1883–1941) was an American actor and “female impersonator”—in today’s terms, a drag performer—from Newtonville, Massachusetts.....
Baltimore, Maryland: 1798. Single 8 x 9.5” letter, folded. Captain Jeremiah Yellott (1749–1805) immigrated from Great Britain to Maryland in 1774, and there made a fortune as a privateer and merchant. In 1798, he was made a naval agent by America’s first Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Stoddert, under the.....
Providence, Rhode Island: 1985. Approximately 5 x 7 inches. Very good contrast; overall near fine. With stamp on verso attributing photo to Peter Mountain and London Features International Ltd. Promotional photograph for the hip-hop trio The Fat Boys; from left to right: Mark “Prince Markie Dee” Morales (1968–2021), Damon “Kool.....
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Oklahoma: late 1800s. 4 x 7 inch photograph on a 6.5 x 9 inch mat. Chip at top right corner of mat, very good contrast, overall very good. Captioned on negative “Boomers Adrift on Canadian River.”. Single photograph of a large group of “Boomer” men and women standing on a......
Philippines and San Francisco: likely 1930s–1940s. pproximately 205 photographs: twenty 5 x 7” and smaller, eighteen 3.75 x 5.5” and smaller, and 167 2.5 x 3.5” and smaller. Most are glued into a scrapbook with some loose. Some photographs bent or with tears; some marked with pencil. The US’s military.....