Boston: 1907. Dated November 29. 1907. A letter addressed to Mr. Arnold H.B. Heath of Boston, laying out the challenges facing the Tuskegee Institute. Washington visited Boston in late 1907, delivering a series of speeches at the centennial celebration of the life of John Greenleaf Whittier. This letter, written in...
American: 1860s-1870s. 2 ⅜ x 3 ½ inches, uncased. An interesting image of two men in a studio setting, examining a paper. The staged nature and the attire suggest that this was an occupational staged photograph. It is unusual to see an interracial duo of train workers, and we can...
American: 1860s. N.p., c. 1860s. 4 ¾ x 3 ½ inches. A wonderful image in a very uncommon large format of a boy maybe seven or eight years old, possibly a drummer boy, showing a level of intimacy and warmth not usually found in portraits of the period. The obstacles...
New York: 1964. Thirteen gelatin silver prints on 8 x 10 paper, with images roughly 9 ½ x 6 ½, and two contact sheets printed full bleed. A scarce collection of photographs done for Playboy by the photographer Jerry Yulsman, a freelance novelist and photographer best known for his portraits...
New York: Committee to Defend the Panther 21, 1970. First Edition. Communist Party members and sympathizers formed the Committee to Defend the Panther 21 in 1970. They sold these broadsides on the Columbia campus in the spring of 1971 to raise money for Panther 21 legal expenses. They published three...
New York: The Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, 1968. First Edition. An uncommon collection of Dr. King’s speeches on the Vietnam War, collected and published by the Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. The Committee was chaired by Dr. King, John C. Bennett of the Union Theological Seminary, Rab-bi.....
Washington, D.C. 1970. [3] pp. stapled mimeograph program for a service commemorating King’s birthday at The Washington Cathedral, January 15, 1970. Stapled together with a [1] pp. letter from Bishop Henry C. Bunton to the Interreligious Committee on Race Relations (ICRR) notifying members of the event, and including a [1]...
American: 1860s-1870s. A fine image in the larger format. Some wear to edges and light rubbing, but very good with nice contrast.
Chicago: 1940s. First Edition. 4 x 3 inch glossy silver gelatin photographs on three 6 x 11 inch disbound album leaves. A series of fifty-nine photographs taped onto three leatherette boards. A wonderfully vibrant group, showing the joyful life of an off -duty soldier in Chicago. Boards in rough shape...
A single page document, signed by Rapier, showing collection revenue from a retail dealer in malt liquors. James Rapier was an African-American politician during the reconstruction era who served as United States Representative from Alabama from 1873-1875. After losing a re-election bid to Jaramiah Haralson in 1877, Rapier turned his...
New York: H. Long, 1854. First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s brown cloth, 259 pp. The Vermont-born Chase moved to Tennessee in 1838. He was elected as a member of the Democratic Party to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses, serving from 1845-1849 before returning north to New York City to practice law...
Peterboro: Self-Published, 1855. First Edition. Single sheet folded, 10 x 10 inches. One of several public letters by Smith to Seward, this one discussing the Fugitive Slave Law. Smith, by the mid-1850s, had grown increasingly frustrated by the abolitionist movement’s willingness to compromise. Seward, an early figure in the Republican...
J.A. Brush: Minnesota, 1877. 2 ¼ x 4 inch image on slightly larger mount. Chambers, a seven-year-old boy at the time of the Civil War, followed the soldiers Jasper Dickey and David Scofield from Georgia back to their homes in Minnesota. The two soldiers raised him. He died in 1936...
California and New York: 1960s. Silver gelatin prints on glossy stock, most 8 x 10 inches. A fine collection of press photos from an amazing period in American music, with many classic soul singers included, many of whom were represented by the William Morris Agency. Subjects include: Clyde McPhatter, Ketty...
Various Places: 1857-1980. Illustrated calf “Frankfurt” binding, 9 x 10 inches. With twelve scrapbook pages and twenty-eight photographs and two programs laid in. Archie Moore’s personal scrapbook, evidently started in Frankfurt in the period surrounding his fight with Hans Kalbfell, and extending onward. Moore used the scrapbook to house other.....
New York: Underwood and Underwood, 1919. First Edition. Gelatin silver prints, 7 ¾ x 5 ½ inches each on 11 ½ x 7 inch black paper mounts, captioned with affixed text. Two WWI-era press photographs related to the Negro 15th Infantry Division of the New York National Guard (a.k.a. the...