Elleanor’s Second Book
by [African-Americana – Enslavement Narratives] [Eldridge, Elleanor]
Providence: B.T. Albro, 1839. 12mo, original cloth backed boards, remnants of paper spine label. First signature stained, leaves foxed good plus overall.. The second published work by Elleanor Eldrige, published in order to raise money for her efforts to reclaim her property in Providence, Rhode Island. The book begins with an abridged version of her first book, and... Read More
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Two Programs for Morris Brothers Pell and Trowbridge Programs Featuring Thomas Dilward, c. 1863
by [African-Americana - Performance] Morris Brothers Pell and Trowbride; Dilward, Thomas aka ‘Japanese Tommy’
Boston: JE Farwell, 1863. Single sheet 16mo programs, double sided. Fine condition. Fine. Two programs for performances by Morris Brothers Pell and Trowbridge shows in Boston, advertising Saturday afternoon performances at their Opera House before the fire of 1864 which led to their move to St. Louis. The performances feature Thomas Dilward performing The Prima Donna and Uncle... Read More
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Music School Settlement / July 6, 1916 / Benefit Program for the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth of Manassas, Va
by [African-Americana - Performance] [Manassus Industrial School] [Diggs, Mabel]
New York, 1916. Small broadsheet measuring 9 ¾ x 6 ¼ inches mounted to backing paper. Chips to margins affecting text, fair condition. A program for a benefit concert for the Manassus Industrial School at the Music School Settlement in New York, featuring performances by Mabel Diggs, Consuelo Pappy, Jessie Janefer and Jean Kelly. The program also featured addresses... Read More
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A Centennial Fourth of July Democratic Celebration. The Massacre of Six Colored Citizens of the United States at Hamburgh, S. C., on July 4, 1876
by [African-Americana - Violence and Voter Suppression - Hamburg Massacre] Republican National Committee
Washington, 1876. 8vo, 16 pp. Some tape repairs to margins else fine, very good condition overall. Very Good. The transcript of the debates in Congress following the Hamburg Massacre, which as a seminal event in South Carolina’s history and in the use of violence as a form of voter suppression. The pamphlet here reproduces the debates in Congress... Read More
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Collection of Material Relating to African-American Sociologist George E. Haynes, Including Correspondence and Photographs
by [African-Americana – Activism – Higher Education] Haynes, George Edmund; Moton, Robert Russa; Hoover, Herbert; Caliver, Ambrose; Du Bois, W.E.B, et al.
United States, 1964. Twenty-seven letters, two typed documents (totaling four pages), six photographs, and nine pieces of ephemera including two of Haynes’ heavily stamped passports. One of the typed documents and two of the letters belong to Olyve Jeter, Haynes’ second wife. Many items affixed to loose scrapbook leaves. Near Fine.. George Edmund Haynes (1800–1960) was an African... Read More
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KRS-One and Dr. Kwame Ture Event Poster, University of Kentucky
by [African-Americana – Activism – Hip-Hop History] University of Kentucky Student Activities Board
Lexington, Kentucky, 1980. 10 ¾ x 16 inch sheet. Very slight staining, some pinholes; excellent to near fine.. Poster for an event at the University of Kentucky featuring KRS-One and Kwame Ture (misspelled “Toure”), formerly known as Stokely Carmichael. Ture was a central figure in the civil rights and Black power movements: among numerous other activities, he led... Read More
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Court Duplicate of the Testimony of Thomas Kent, a Black Man Aboard the Brigantine Britannia When It Wrecked off the Coast of New Brunswick in December of 1834
by [African-Americana – Shipwrecks – Canada] Kent, Thomas; Perley, M.H.
St. John, New Brunswick, British North America, 1835. Three 8 x 13 inch pages, folded. Toning at folds; fine. With a clipping from the Quebec Gazette Monthly, March 1835. Fine. Little biographical information is available on Thomas Kent, save that he was a sailor aboard the Britannia and that the newspaper clipping included here identifies him as “a... Read More
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Real Photo Postcards of “Vickie” and “Cliff” at the Lady Luck Casino
by [African-Americana – Las Vegas – Gambling] Unknown Photographer
Las Vegas, Nevada, 1975. Twenty-eight real photo postcards measuring 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Overall very good to excellent.. A collection of real photo postcards of a Black couple enjoying the Lady Luck Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1975. Vegas was one of the earliest places in the United States to desegregate. In 1960, James B.... Read More
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Pair of Photographs of Moton’s Sharps and Flats, c. 1930s
by [African-Americana - Music - African-American Photographers] Polk, Prentice H.
Tuskegee, 1930. Pair of silver gelatin prints measuring 9 ½ x 7 ⅞ and 7 x 5 inches. Residue to versos from removal from scrapbook, tear and crease to larger image, very good contrast. Very Good. A pair of photographs from the prolific photographer Prentice H. Polk of a band led by Allen Moton, the son of Dr.... Read More
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Hear the Story of Jake Walker. Now in the Eastern Penitentiary as told by Attorney Herbert E. Millen, Member of the Legal Committee of the Phila. Branch of the N.A.A.C.P.
by [African-Americana - Legal Advocacy - Incarceration - Philadelphia] N.A.A.C.P., Philadelphia Branch; Martin, Isadore, et al.
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. Good. A handbill advertising a talk at the Thermopylae Baptist Church at 24th and Bolton St. in North Philadelphia, featuring Isadore Martin, Anna Gayle and Herbert Millen. The talk... Read More
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Activities Commission & Kuumba Weusi Watu Present… Cultural Experience Weekend
by [African-Americana – Music – Dance – College Students] SUNY Geneseo Activities Commission; Kuumba Weusi Watu
Geneseo, New York, 1973. Approximately 18 x 24 inches. Slightly toned; near fine. 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, and Geneseo student Maurice Odine,... Read More
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Sketches of Negro Life and History (In South Carolina). [Inscribed by the Author]
by [African-Americana – South Carolina – HBCUs] Gordon, Asa H.
Chicago, Illinois: W. B. Conkey Company, 1929. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth without jacket, 280pp. Inscribed by the author on front pastedown. Wear and staining to boards with spine broken and title page partly detached; contents with some dog ears and pencil markings. Very good.. Asa H. Gordon’s Sketches of Negro Life and History (In South Carolina), inscribed... Read More
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Photographs of Students at UNCF-Sponsored HBCUs, Likely 1950s—1970s
by [African-Americana – Civil Rights – HBCUs] Anderson, Bill
Louisiana and likely others, 1970. Thirty-nine photographs: sixteen measuring 11 x 13 ½ inches, mounted on heavy cardstock; twenty-three measuring 8 x 10 inches, mounted on mats measuring 11 x 14 inches. With Fine contrast; some damage to edges; overall Near Fine.. Thirty-nine photographs, mainly showing African American college students on campus: at lectures, studying, chatting, and especially... Read More
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Free Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins
by [African-Americana – Black Panther Party – New Haven Black Panther Trials] Seale, Bobby; Huggins, Ericka; Black Panther Party
Los Angeles, California, 1970. Approximately 5 x 8 inches. Near fine with tiny chip to upper margin. Near fine.. 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 Huggins, founder of the BPP's New... Read More
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Portrait of a Finely Dressed Young African-American Man from Bakersfield, California, c. 1890s-early 1900s
by [African-Americana - California - Portraiture] Nelson, C.A.
Bakersfield: C.A. Nelson, 1890. 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, taken by the photographer C.A. Nelson around the turn... Read More
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1990–91 Issue of the Big Black Book, “Metro New York’s Networking Directory of African-American Businesses, Professionals and Organizations”
by [African-Americana – New York City – Black Capitalism] Morris, Celeste; et al.
New York City: Unlimited Creative Enterprises Inc, 1990. 136pp booklet measuring 7 x 10 ½ inches. Jacket quite worn, inside toned with some wear, else excellent. Overall good plus.. 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... Read More
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Needed (Public Citizen #1-President of the United States in Exile-Inaugurated 3-4-69)
by [African-Americana - Politics] Gregory, Dick
NP, 1969. Single sheet, 22 ½ by 17 ½ inches. Fine condition. A poster advertising the presidential campaign of Dick Gregory, who ran for office in 1968, garnering 45,000 votes. The poster parodies the trope of the “Wanted” poster. Gregory declared during his campaign that the United States was “worth saving.” A particularly fine copy of this iconic poster... Read More
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Photographic Archive of an African-American State Employee in Ohio, Spanning Over Seventy Years, With Much From the Civil Rights Era
by [African-Americana – Civil Rights Era – Desegregation] Johnson, Dorothy
Ohio, 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 and smaller, and thirty 2.5 x 4.5 inches and... Read More
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Advertisement for the “World Business Directory of Negroes”, Published by the Lost Art Society, 1932
by [African-Americana – Black Capitalism] Evans, Earnest William
Vincennes, Indiana: Lost Art Society, 1932. Stapled booklet of four double-sided pages, measuring 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Near fine.. A booklet advertising a forthcoming “World Business Directory of Negroes”, which was to be put out by the “Lost Art Society”. This was the project of Earnest William Evans (1879–1948); his obituary states that he was born... Read More
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The Black Panther Manifesto / If the Fascists Attempt to Murder Chairman Bobby
by [African-Americana - Black Panther Party - New Haven Chapter] Douglas, Emory
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. Very Good. An uncommon Black Panther imprint printed during the 1970 New Haven trials surrounding the death of Alex Rackley. The front shows Eldridge Cleaver’s Black... Read More
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Four Views of New Orleans and the Surrounding Countryside, Including African-American Subjects
by [African-Americana - Early Photography - New Orleans] Mugnier, George
New Orleans and Environs, 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. -- Cotton Steamer on the Mississippi. 7 x 4 in. on... Read More
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Carte-de-Visite Portrait of an African-American Man, Richmond, c. 1870s
by [African-Americana - Portraiture - Virginia] Davis, G.W. [Farley, James Conway]
Richmond, 1870. Albumen photograph measuring 2 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Fine contrast. Fine. A fine portrait of a formally dressed African-American man taken in Richmond in the 1870s by the G.W. Davis studio, possibly taken during the tenure of James Conway Farley, the noted African-American photographer who Davis hired beginning in 1875. From the size... Read More
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Photograph of African-American Staff at Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina, c. 1910-1920
by [African-Americana - Business - North Carolina] Pelton, Herbert W.
Asheville, 1920. Silver gelatin print measuring 8 x 10 inches. Some stains and wear, information on verso, good condition. Good. 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 the region. Among the staff pictured is... Read More
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Sixteen Photographs of African Americans in Kansas, Missouri, and Indian Territory, 1890–1930s
by [African-Americana – Midwest] Macurdy, Hoit, Dunham, Brigham, and Other Studios
Indian Territory, Missouri, and Kansas: Macurdy, Hoit, Dunham, Brigham, and other studios, 1930. Fourteen cabinet cards of various sizes, measuring 7 x 8 ½ inches and smaller, and two real photo postcards. Photos with wear; generally excellent. Cards with significant wear and some missing corners; very good minus. Overall very good.. Sixteen photographs of African American men and... Read More
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Eight Unpublished Slides of John Elray Sanford aka Redd Foxx, Taken for a Jet Magazine Shoot, 1976
by [African-American Performance] Sutton, Isaac
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. Fine. Redd Foxx left NBC in 1976 after a successful... Read More
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