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New York: African Civilization Society, 1858. Single leaf folded, 4 pp. 8 ¼ x 7 ¾ inches. The African Civilization Society was formed in 1858 by several prominent members of Brooklyn’s Weeksville community. The second article of this document, the organization’s constitution, states its goals as follows: “The objects of.....
![Souls of Black Folk [Inscribed by Philip A. Payton]. African-Americana, W. E. B. Du Bois, Philip...](/pictures/thumb/List022.jpg?v=1567434798)
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1911. 8vo, black cloth, 264 pp. A scarce signature of Philip A. Payton, known as the “Father of Harlem” due to his success in the real estate trade in Harlem. Payton played a huge roll in the transformation of Harlem into a neighborhood that was welcoming to.....
Tuskegee: 1930s. When Prentice Polk enrolled at Tuskegee Institute at the age of eighteen, he had every intention of becoming a painter. The staff at Tuskegee decided that his goals were impractical, and at the advice of the Institute’s official photographer, C.M. Battey, Polk instead decided to pursue a career.....
Massachusetts: 1926. Ink on paper, 18 ½ x 23 ½ inches. Alexander Johnson, an African-American musician from New Bedford, enlisted in the army at age 16 and was believed for some time to be the first African-American musician in the Union Army. He mustered into mustered into Company "C" of.....
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.....
Boston: c. 1874. Albumen carte-de-visite photograph, 3 ¾ x 2 ¼ inches, on original mount with photographer’s mark to verso. Joshua Bowen Smith was a Boston-based abolitionist and conductor on the Underground Railroad, who also owned his own catering company. Born in Philadelphia to a British father and mother of.....
Fort Ethan Allen: 1910. Gelatin silver print mounted to board, 16 ¼ x 14 ½ inches. The 10th Cavalry was one of the original “Buffalo Soldier” regiments of the post-Civil War segregated U.S. Army, first seeing action in the Indian Wars. Their band is shown here most likely during their.....
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.....
Providence, et al. 1799-1866. Anna Almy Jenkins was the granddaughter of the abolitionist Quaker patron Moses Brown. She was active in the Religious Society of Friends in the middle of the nineteenth century, at a time when few women were involved in public religious life, though Quakers in general were.....
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].....
New York, et al. 1940s-1960s. Five 8 x 10 and two 5 x 7 inch gelatin silver prints, with Bradley’s estate marks to versos. Jack Bradley was a Cape Cod native who, after graduating from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, fell in love with Jazz after seeing Louis Armstrong perform at.....
Boston: Oliver Ditson and Company, 1863. First Edition. Manuel Fenellosa and his brother-in-law Manuel Emilio came to the United States from Spain in 1836 aboard the SS United States. They settled in Salem, Massachussetts, first forming a band and then a music school. They were friends of the publisher John.....
V.p. 1890s. Oblong quarto, leatherette, heavy card stock album pages with photographs affixed. This album of photographs, assembled probably during the 1890s, is notable in three ways; for its extensive collection of notable cultural figures in the late nineteenth century including abolitionists, politicians, women’s suffrage advocates authors, etc; the inclusion.....
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.....