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In the Evening by the Moonlight [Great Ethiopian Songs Series]
by [African-Americana - Music - Minstrelsy] Bland, James Alan
New York: Benjamin W. Hitchcock, 1880. Sheet music measuring 11 x 14 inches. 6 pp. With illustrated folio cover with Bland’s likeness and a stereotypical illustration of African-Americans at church. Fine condition. A scarce and possibly a first printing of James A. Bland’s “In the Evening by the Moonlight,” published as part of the Great Ethiopian Songs series by... Read More
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Cabinet Card Portrait of a Child, Identified as Captain David Dewey Hock, One Year Old
by [African-American Photographers] Farley, James Conway
Richmond: Jefferson Fine Art Gallery, 1898. Albumen photograph measuring 5 ½ x 3 ⅞ on larger mount. Very good to near fine with light wear. Very Good. James Conway Farley was the first African-American photographer to gain fame in the United States, exhibiting at the Colored Industrial Fair in Richmond in 1884, where he won a first prize... Read More
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Photograph Album Belonging to Mabel Williams of Atlanta, Georgia, Documenting High-School Life at Booker T. Washington High School, Friends and Family, 1940s-1950s
by [African-Americana - Women - Georgia] Williams, Mable, Compiler
Mostly Atlanta, 1950. Leatherette album measuring 12 x 9 inches. With over 225 images, most 4 ½ x 2 ¾ inches. Very well preserved and nearly complete with three empty slots, about fine overall. Near Fine. A compelling visual record of the childhood of Mable Williams of Atlanta, Georgia, a high school student at Booker T. Washington High... Read More
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Friendship Album Belonging to McKinley Stewart of the Tuskegee Institute with Inscriptions from Classmates, 1914
by [African-Americana - Education - Tuskegee Institute] Stewart, McKinley
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. Good. An interesting book of dedicatory verse to a student in the Tuskegee Institute class of 1915, from his classmates, all written in May of 1914. Stewart writes... Read More
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Cabinet Card Photograph of an African-American Woman, c. 1880s- 1890s
by [African-Americana - Vernacular Photography - Mississippi] Frederichs, M.T. Photographer
Vickburg: M.T. Frederichs, 1890. Cabinet card photograph measuring 5 ½ x 4 on larger mount. Some light wear to mount, very good. Very Good. A portrait of an African-American woman in a dress, holding a parasol and with a hat curiously perched on a prop branch nearby. We find a record of an M.T. Frederichs operating from a... Read More
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Late 1800s Cabinet Card Showing a Mixed-Race Group of Workers
by [African-Americana – Labor History] Muller, Oscar
New York City: Oscar Muller Mercantile Photograph company, 1800. Photograph measuring 4 ¾ x 7 inches mounted on 5 x 8 inch cardstock. Some creasing with a marginal tear on the left side; else near fine.. A photograph of ten workers, at least two of whom are African-American, posing outside their place of business. The men’s location is... Read More
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Fundraising Letter for Black Panther Party Members' Legal Defense
by [African-Americana – Black Panther Party – Panther 21 – Chicago Seven – Bobby Seale] Davis, Ossie; Gregory, Dick; Committee to Defend the Panthers
New York City, 1970. Single letter measuring 8 x 10.5 inches, one single-sided sheet. Fine. 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 with a conspiracy to murder NYPD officers... Read More
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Four Cartes-de-Visite of African-American Subjects in Pocahantas, Virginia, c. 1860s-1880s
by [African-Americana - Early Photography - Virginia] Poff, P[erry] W.
Pocahantas: P.W. Poff, 1870. 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. Very Good. A series of images taken by P.W. Poff, who also operated a studio at Bluefield, West Virginia. Pocahontas, in Tazewell County, was... Read More
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Perry Bradford’s “Crazy Blues”
by [African-Americana – Women – Blues] Bradford, Perry
New York City: Perry Bradford Music Publishing Co, 1920. Sheet music measuring 9 ½ x 12 ¼ inches, 6pp. Small marginal tears and folds; upper right corner of cover page missing; larger tear at central fold. Cover inscribed “Irene Cooper”. Overall very good.. Perry Bradford (1893–1970) and Mamie Smith (1891–1946) both began their careers as traveling vaudeville performers.... Read More
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Portrait of William L. Dawson, with Accompanying Correspondence Between Dawson and Rolla Foley, Musical Director at Wilmington College, Ohio
by [African-American Photographers - Music] Polk, P.H.; Dawson, William S.; Foley, Rolla
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. Fine. A portrait of William L. Dawson, taken by P.H. Polk, during Dawson’s tenure at the Tuskegee Institute, where he served in several capacities from 1931-1956.... Read More
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Contemporary Press Photograph of the Dunbar Apartments at 149th St. and 7th Ave., c. late 1920s
by [African-Americana - New York - Housing] Brown Brothers, Photographers
New York, 1920. First Edition. Gelatin silver print measuring 8 x 10 inches. Some editorial marks to verso, very good contrast, very good overall. Very Good. The Dunbar Apartments were one of the first developments built for African-Americans, in a period in which there was a shortage of housing in Harlem. John D. Rockefeller Jr. funded the project,... Read More
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To Maecenas [First Appearance, in The Scots Magazine, September 1773 - Entire Issue Offered]
by [African-Americana - Poetry] Wheatley, Phyllis
Edinburgh: Scots Magazine, 1773. First Edition. 8vo, [450] - 504 pp, disbound from larger collected volume, complete. Contents fine, binding split, very good. The first appearance of Phyllis Wheatley’s “On Maecenas,” published in September, 1773, the same month that her Poems on Various Subjects was headed to the printer, and likely predating the form in its collected version. The... Read More
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Carte-De-Visite Portrait of Reverend William Seymore, After a Painting
by [African-Americana] [Seymore, Rev. William] [Abel Peck, Photographer]
Newburgh: Abel A. Peck, 1860. 3 ½ x 2 ¼ albumen print on larger mount. Good. 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, describe him as follows: "In 1817, William... Read More
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1870 Letter from Rev. Edward P. Smith to the Singer Sewing Company Requesting a Sewing Machine for Howard University Students
by [African-Americana – HBCUs – American Missionary Association] Smith, Rev. Edward P.
New York City, 1870. Single one-page letter measuring 8 x 9 ¾ inches. Near fine.. A letter from Reverend Edward Parmlee Smith (1827–1876), then a field secretary of the American Missionary Association, requesting a free or half-priced Singer sewing machine for the “colored young men & women” who are “working their way through an education” at Howard University.... Read More
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Excelsior. Book of Poems
by [African-Americana - Literature - Poetry] Pitts, Richard
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. Good. A privately printed collection of poems by Richard Pitts, who at the time was a student at Rust College in Holly Springs. According to his biography, Pitts was “stricken with... Read More
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1950s Scrapbook of an African American Air Force Cadet at Sheppard Air Force Base
by [African-Americana – US Air Force] Franklin, Robert W.
Wichita Falls, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; and New York City, 1956. Scrapbook containing approximately fifty-three photos: five measuring 8 ½ x 10 inches and smaller; two measuring 5 x 7 and smaller; and forty-six measuring 4 x 5 inches and smaller. Photos overall excellent; scrapbook pages with marginal damage and two detached. Overall excellent.. A scrapbook assembled by Robert... Read More
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Three Headshots of Ruby Dee
by [African-Americana – Film] Brown Brothers; Dee, Ruby
California, 1950. Three 8 x 10 inch photographs. Brown Brothers stamps verso. Marked on negatives with numbering; one also reading “RUBY DEE Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer”. One marked recto with copyright to United Artists Corporation. Fine. Ruby Dee (1922–2014) was an acclaimed actress and civil rights activist. She began her career with the American Negro Theatre, debuted on Broadway in 1943,... Read More
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$100,000 Maintenance Fund Drive to Insure perpetual upkeep of the home of Frederick Douglass, The Abolitionist
by [African-Americana – Frederick Douglass] National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs; Stewart, Sallie
Evansville, Indiana: N.p., 1920. Poster on heavy cardstock measuring 14 x 10 ¾ inches. Wrinkling and some water stains; very good plus.. A poster advertising a fundraising drive to preserve Cedar Hill, the home of Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C. The drive was organized by the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, an early civil rights group then... Read More
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Press Photograph of African-American Politician Shirley Chisholm, With Caption
by [African-Americana – Politics – Women – Post-Civil Rights Era] Chisholm, Shirley
Washington, D.C., 1971. Approximately 7 x 9 inches. Editorial mark to text recto, World Wide Photos stamp verso. Fine. 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 Black major-party presidential candidate and the first... Read More
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Photograph of a Seated Woman, c. 1910s
by [African-American Photographers - New York] Baker, Walter
New York, 1920. Photograph measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches on larger mount. Some fading to image, wear to mount, very good. 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 the early twentieth century. He was... Read More
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Rope & Faggot. A Biography of Judge Lynch
by [African-Americana] White, Walter
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, 272 pp. Very good with some light normal wear and some tanning to spine, cloth frayed at corners of board, no jacket.. Walter A. White was an activist and author who would eventually lead the NAACP beginning in 1929, the year of this book’s publication. He began his career... Read More
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Photographic Postcard of Woody Headspeth on His Bicycle in France, c. 1900-1910
by [African-Americana - Sports] [Headspeth, Woody]
France: None Stated, 1900. Postcard measuring 5 ½ x 3 ⅝ inches. Fine condition. Fine. Woody Headspeth - known also as Woody Hadspath or Hedspath, as is written here - was an African-American cyclist who raced mostly in France due to racial prejudice in the United States. Headspeth raced until he was 50 years old in France, working... Read More
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Three Watercolors for Proposed Intersections in Queens from the Robert Moses Era
by [New York City] [Automobile Age]
New York, 1940. Watercolors on paper affixed to later illustration board, 14 x 26 inches each. Very Good. An attractive set of images from the Robert Moses era in an unknown hand. The images show proposed intersections including two that were never built. The images include "Proposed Parkway Passing over Entrance to Fort Totten," which shows an overpass... Read More
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1833 Letter from J. B. Toulmin & Son Reporting the State of the Cotton Market
by [Alabama – Cotton – Economic History] Toulmin, J. B.
Mobile, Alabama, 1833. Single one-page letter measuring 9 x 11 inches. Folded with small tears at folds, large hole at seal intersecting with text; excellent.. J. B. Toulmin is likely John Butler Toulmin (1788–1860), a merchant in Mobile, Alabama, and the son of dissenting minister Rev. Joshua Toulmin of Taunton, England. Toulmin’s brother was Harry Toulmin, a Unitarian... Read More
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Album of Photographs Showing the Pioneer Commercial Company’s Mining Operations in Ophir Creek, Near Golovin Bay, c. 1897-1901
by [Alaska - Mining - Golovin Bay Region] Pioneer Commercial Company
Alaska, 1901. Oblong folio, 12 ½ x 9 inches. Twelve leaves with 89 photographs rebound in modern cloth. Binding in fine condition, photographs generally excellent, some leaves with clear tape repairs. A well preserved album of photographs showing mining operations in the Golovin Bay region, about fifty to seventy-five miles northwest of Nome, during the tail end of the... Read More
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