Philadelphia: Women's Missionary Society of the United Lutheran Church in America, n.d. 1928 Edition. [so stated]. Small (4)-page leaflet. 15 cm. At head of title" Lutheran Facts Series. Fact 5: "Contrary to th popular notion the negroes are naturally religious and that all of them belong to some church, reliable..... More
Chicago: Talking Drums, Inc., (1984). Paperback. photos, 19p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. A bi-monthly. We don't know how many issues were published. More
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(ca. 1763). Handwritten bill, receipted on back as paid in full Jan., 1764. 21 x 14 cm. James Young details 15 bits of tailoring or clothers making done for Grant Gibbon between Nov. 1760 and March 1762. The total bill appears to have been 5 pounds, 17 shillings, 5 pence..... More
Montgomery, Alabama: 1914. Four-page weekly newspaper. 41 x 28 cm. Later horizontal fold. Small split at one end of fold. Blank lower left corner torn off. Foxing in right margin of first page. Name in pencil at top of first page ("Prof. Sibley Supt of Col. Rural Schools"). Published 1907-1916..... More
New York: Crisis Publishing Co., 1969. Paperback. Softcover in original wrapper. 20 cm. Address label on back cover. Important NAACP periodical published 10 times yearly. More
700 Eshleman Hall, UCBerkeley, Berkeley, CA: 1992. illustrated, 12p. Newsprint. 30 x 45 cm. Horizontal fold. Modest browning around edges. Successor to Third World Press which had debuted earlier in 1992. We don't know whether additional issues were published. More
(ca 1896). Yellow patterned fabric background, possibly cotton from a flour or feed sack, large piece of red possibly upholstery cloth in the shape of a heart with a soft focus reproduction (on cloth?) of a photographic image of two young African American Women in the center. Tan (paper?) banner..... More
Chicago: PP & F Co., c. 1911. Vintage Black & White Print. 41 x 51cm. Recently framed under glass in a flecked silver wooden frame. Light wear to the print, including a small hole near the inner elbow of the girl and some minor chips elsewhere. Some staining on protective..... More
Invitation card. 14 cm x 10 cm. Minor browning. Corner bent. Small tear on one side. We don't know where this organization was located and would welcome suggestions. More
Chicago: National Medical Fellowships, Inc., n.d. Paperback. 44p. Softcover in original wrappers. 24 cm. Minor cover soil. More
Rome, GA: Fletcher Smith, Printer, [1892]. Broadsheet. 21 x 20 cm. Printed on both sides on thin pink paper. Minor chipping and wear along page edges. One side is devoted to claims under the newly enacted Indian War Soldiers' Pension Bill under which qualified soldiers or their widows could receive..... More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1921. Paperback. photos, pp. [1]-48. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Cover lightly browned. Modest cover chipping. Mostly unopened. Among the contents: "Industrial 'Y' for Negro Shipbuilders: Maintained by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company," by William Anthony Aery (pages 17-26 with 6 photos);..... More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1920. Paperback. photos, pp. [49]-96. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Minor adhesion between front cover and first interior leaf. Partially unopened. Includes "The Model Town of Truxton," by W. H. Jennings (pages 74-78 with three photos) about a planned community in Portsmouth, Virginia, for African..... More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1920. Paperback. photos, pp. [389]-436. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Cover lightly browned and the front cover is chipped, mostly along right edge. Among the contents: "Health Work among Negroes," by Florence Chapman Williams, State Director of Health, Education and Organization of Negroes (pages 405-411..... More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1918. Paperback. photos, pp. [465]-512. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Partially unopened. Among the contents: "Saving the Indian from Peyote," a four paragraph note recommending "hearty support" for a Congressional bill to ban Native American use of peyote (pages 470-471 with no photos); "County Training..... More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1918. Paperback. photos, pp. [561-608. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Cover soiling. Partially unopened. Among the contents: "Women Farmers," by Alice M. Price, of the Hampton Institute Staff, writing about her summer spent working with the Chester Valley Unit of "The Women's Land Army of..... More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1918. Paperback. photos, pp. [369]-416. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Among the contents: "Effects of the War on Southern Labor," excerpts from a speech by Monroe N. Work before the Southern Sociological Congress on April 15, 1918 (pages 381-384 with no photos); "Practical Trade Work..... More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1919. Paperback. photos, pp. [625]-672. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Corner heavily creased on last interior page and back cover. Among the contents: "Law and Order," by James E. Gregg, Principal of Hampton Institute (pages 633-636 with no photos); "Official Statement about Negro Troops," by..... More
[Lexington?]: (1941). Paperback. Folded four-page mimeo program stapled at upper left corner to a folding cover which has an appealing titled front page ("Negro Song Festival Lexington, Ky. U. K. Gym Sunday May 11") and is otherwise blank. 22 cm. Sponsored by the Music Department of the University of Kentucky..... More
Tucson: 1996. photos, 16p. 36 cm. Newspaper (tabloid-sized or smaller) format. Horizontal crease where folded. This issue contains three editorial/opinion pieces written by Betty Liggins (1931-2019), identified elsewhere as a Nurse Practitioner who was also a Civil Rights activist and had attended the 1988 Democratic Convention as a Delegate for..... More
Paperback. Illustration mounted on card. 11 x 16.5cm.; image-size 10 x 14cm. Illustration by "Kash." Small commercial label on back (E. Borhek & Son, Opticians, No. 628 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia). Illustration shows an African American child, in ragged clothing, standing in long grass in front of the stone wall of..... More
Washington: Buell & Blanchard, 1853. 1st ed. Hardcover. [iv], [2], 02p. plus [1]p. advertisement for The Water-Cure Journal. Original dark blue cloth. 20 cm. Minor cloth loss at outer corner tips. Cover appealing despite some minor spotting and a discreet dark streak. Small snag in margin on one or two..... More
Mobile, Alabama: Senior Class of Allen Institute, (1956). Hardcover. photos, 55, (9)p. Original blue cover. 27 cm. Lower edge bumped. Foxing on endpapers. Josephine Allen Institute was founded by Josphine Blackledge Allen, a prominent local African American, as a private school for African Americans in 1895 (or maybe 1905) --..... More
New York: Dial Press, (c. 1978). Benny Andrews. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis and other illustrations (by Benny Andrews), 283p. Hardcover. dj. 23 cm. Jacket has modest soiling and edge-wear on rear panel and adjoining flap. Small flaw at head of front cover joint. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by Raymond..... More
Paris: Christian Bourgois, (c. 1969). 1st ed. in French. Hardcover. 94p. Softcover in original wrapper. 20 cm. INSCRIBED on title-page by Bibbs ("To my favorite poet, Gus our new creator, Love, Leroy Paris Nov. 1970"). Minor browning along top of front edge and around a short tear on back cover..... More
