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Previous|1234|Next Lot #339 Autograph Letter Signed from a South Carolina plantation owner, seeking family history from his slave View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Headingzzfah(1850 South Carolina plantation owner seeks family history from his slave)AuthorClawson, C[harles] L.HeadlineALs 1850 South Carolina plantation ownerDate PublishedAug. 6, 1850 Lot #340 Five Anti-Slavery Society Reports - 1850-1852 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Headingzzfai(1850-52 Five Anti-Slavery Society Reports)AuthorAmerican and Foreign Anti-Slavery SocietyHeadlineFive Anti-Slavery Society Reports - 1850-1852Date Published1850-1852 Lot #341 Autograph Letter Signed from "Sam" a student, about the 1851 Christiana "Slave Riot" in Pennsylvania View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Headingzzfaj(1851 Christiana ‘Slave Riot’, ‘Stir and Excitement’ in Pennsylvania)Author"Sam"HeadlineALs about 1851 Christiana ‘Slave Riot’Date PublishedSeptember 13, [1851] Lot #343 The Looking-Glass, Being A True Report and Narrative of the Life, Travels, and Labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, A Colored Clergyman, Embracing a period of time from the year 1812 to 1854, and including His Visit to Western Africa View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(1854 Memoirs of a Black Clergyman before the Civil War)AuthorPeterson, Daniel H.Headline1854 Memoirs of a Black Clergyman pre Civil WarPublisherWright, PrintersDate Published1854 Lot #344 The American Fugitive in Europe. Sketches of Places and People Abroad. With A Memoir of the Author View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Headingzzc(African-American Book Of Travel)AuthorBrown, Wm. WellsHeadline1855 First African-American Book Of TravelPublisherJohn P. Jewett & Co.Date Published1855 Lot #345 Autograph Letter Signed "Lorow"(?) - about a Black man tried for murder in Ohio View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Headingzzfam(1857 Black Man Tried for Murder in Ohio)Author**HeadlineALs about 1857 Black man tried for murder in OhioDate PublishedOctober 12, 1857 Lot #346 Autograph Document Signed - 1858 Death of an African-American in Gold Rush Country View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(California)AuthorMerritt, G.C., Chairman of the Board of Supervisors and C.H. Pollard, Deputy County Clerk, SiskiyouHeadline1858 Death of a ‘Negro Black Man’ in Gold RushDate PublishedFeb. 3, 1858 Lot #347 Autograph Letter Signed View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Headingzzfao(1859 ‘Great Excitement’ in ‘Bleeding’ Kansas)AuthorRay, JosephHeadline1859 ‘Great Excitement’ in ‘Bleeding’ Kansas ALsDate PublishedFeb. 16, 1859 Lot #348 Autograph Letter Signed - 1860 Future Union Army Railroad Chief Protects Black Workers in Kentucky View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Headingzzfaq(1860 Black Workers in Kentucky)AuthorAnderson, A[dna]HeadlineALs from Kentucky railroad black workerDate PublishedDecember 24, 1860 Lot #349 Autograph Letter Signed about free Blacks in Oberlin, Ohio View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Heading(1861 Free Blacks of Oberlin, Ohio 2 months before Civil War)AuthorSmith, MosesHeadlineLetter about 1861 Free Blacks of Oberlin, OHDate PublishedFebruary 2, 1861 Lot #350 Two Autograph Letters Signed from 1863 Union Army Colonel in New Orleans on Incompetent Officers of Black Regiments View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Headingzzfas(1863 Officers of Black Regiments)AuthorClark, Colonel John S.Headline2 ALs from Union Army Col. about black soldiersDate PublishedDec. 9 and 12, 1863 Lot #351 “Memorandum for President”. Manuscript Document, unsigned and undated, but probably Richmond, Virginia, 1864 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Headingzzfat(1864 President (Jefferson Davis?) Buys Slaves)Author**Headline1864 President Davis? Buys SlavesDate Published[1864?] Lot #352 Autograph letter, signed from an Ohio soldier in Tennessee hailing abolition of slavery View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$112.50StatusSold Headingzzfau(1865 An Ohio Soldier on Abolition)Author"Charley" [Atkin, Charles]HeadlineALs from Ohio soldier hailing abolition of slaverDate PublishedFebruary 22, 1865 Lot #353 "The Negro Dialect”, Pp. 744-745 of The Nation magazine, Vol. I, No. 24 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Headingzzfav(1865 First Appearance of Negro "Spirituals")Author“Marcel” (pseudonym of William Francis Allen)HeadlineThe Negro Dialect 1865 by "Marcel"Date PublishedDecember 14, 1865 Lot #354 Autograph Letter Signed - 1866 Lincoln's Boston Postmaster Helps Freed Slave Child View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Headingzzfax(1866 Freed Slave Child in Boston)AuthorPalfrey, John G.HeadlineALs from Lincoln's postmaster helping freed slaveDate PublishedFeb. 5, 1866 Lot #355 Autograph Letter - 1869 Helping Blacks Fight the KKK in Tennessee View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$125StatusSold Headingzzfaaa(1869 Fighting the Klan in Tennessee)Author[Hunter, Rev. Leander]HeadlineALs from a man helping fight the KKK 1869Date PublishedMarch 31, 1869 Lot #356 Army Life in a Black Regiment View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(1870 Army Life In A Black Regiment, 1st Edition of Civil War Classic)AuthorHigginson, Thomas Wentworth, Late Colonel 1st South Carolina VolunteersHeadlineArmy Life in a Black Regiment 1870 1st editionPublisherFields, OsgoodDate Published1870 Lot #357 Carte-de-visite photograph of the first Black voter in Illinois town View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(1870 Illinois photograph of first Black voter)HeadlineCarte-de-visite photograph of 1st Black voter, ILPublisherBowman, PhotographerDate Published[1870] Lot #358 1871-74 First National Negro Newspaper - Printed and manuscript Document Signed View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorDouglass, Frederick, Jr.HeadlineDocument sgnd by Frederick Douglass Jr. 1871Date Published[Likely 1871, although printed form reads 1870] Lot #359 Printed and handwritten Marriage License and (attached) Marriage Certificate for Benjamin Petty and Mary Robinson, "Colored", "legally solemnized" and signed by (white) Minister Benjamin Tiller, Warsaw, Kentucky, November 7, 1871 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(1871 Kentucky 'Colored' Marriage Certificate)Headline1871 Kentucky ‘Colored’ Marriage CertificateDate PublishedNovember 7, 1871 Lot #360 Minutes of the First Annual Session of the Illinois Conference of the A.M.E. Church View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Headingzzfbc(1872-76 African Methodist Episcopal Church in Illinois)Author**HeadlineMinutes of African Methodist Episcopal ChurchPublisherLeader Company Book and Job Printing HouseDate Published1872 Lot #361 1875 Discharge of a Buffalo Soldier in Texas View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold AuthorCorbin, Capt. H[enry] and Sgt. Reuben E. DouglassHeadline1875 Discharge of a Buffalo Soldier in TexasDate PublishedJan. 6, 1875 Lot #362 Autograph Letter Signed - from an ex-slave trader View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Headingzzfbe(1875 Reminiscences of an ex-Slave Trader)AuthorStevenson, J.[ohn] A. "Stable Keeper"HeadlineALs from an ex-Slave trader, 1875Date PublishedMarch 17, 1875 Lot #363 Autograph Letter Signed - 1877 Radical Abolitionist Praises Black Revolutionary View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Anti-Slavery)AuthorPhillips, WendellHeadlineALs from Wendell Phillips praising black revolutiDate PublishedOct., 15, 1877 Lot #364 Argument In behalf of appropriating unpaid bounties of United States colored soldiers to certain Institutions View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Heading(1880 Negro Soldiers Civil War Bounties to fund Black Colleges)AuthorPainter, C.C. and S.C. ArmstrongHeadlineWork on Civil War Bounties for Colored SoldiersDate Published[c.1880] Lot #365 1885-95 Four “Jubilee Singer” Groups of “Negro Melodies as in Slavery Days” - Four imprints: Programs and Song Books of four Jubilee Singer groups: View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Headingzzfbh(1885-1895 Jubilee Singers)Author**HeadlineNegro Melodies as in Slavery Days 4 booksDate Published1885-95 Lot #366 Autograph Letter Signed "Jesse" - 1891 Oberlin Student Compares Oppression of Blacks & American Indians View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$112.50StatusSold Headingzzfbi(1891 Comparison of Blacks and Indians)Author"Jesse"Headline1891 Oberlin Student compares Blacks & IndiansDate PublishedFeb. 16, 1891 Lot #367 Afro-American Folk Lore: Told Round Cabin Fires on the Sea Islands of South Carolina View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Headingzzfbj(1892 Classic of Afro-American Folk Lore)AuthorChristensen, A.M.H.HeadlineAfro-American Folk Lore 1892PublisherJ.G. CupplesDate Published[c.1892] Lot #368 Autograph Letter Signed from 1894 Black Woman Teacher at Selma University, Alabama View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Headingzzfbk(1894 Selma University)AuthorHaldrum, RuthHeadlineALs from a 1894 black woman teacher in ALDate PublishedNov. 24, 1894 Lot #369 The Underground Railway (From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Second Series, Volume VIII, Pp. 49-77) View details Estimate$60 - $90StatusUnsold Heading(1902 Rare Canadian Account Of The Underground Railroad)AuthorWithrow, W.H.HeadlineThe Underground Railway 1902PublisherFor Sale by J. Hope & Sons, Ottawa; The Copp-Clark Co., Toronto; Bernard Quaritch, London, EnglandDate Published1902 Lot #370 Twentieth Century Negro Literature, A Cyclopedia of Thought. Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro. By One Hundred of America’s Greatest Negroes View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(1902 First Twentieth Century Negro Cyclopedia)AuthorCulp, D.W. editorHeadline1902 First Twentieth Century Negro CyclopediaPublisherJ.L. Nichols & Co.Date Published[c.1902] Lot #371 Under Fire With The Tenth U.S. Cavalry, Being a Brief, Comprehensive Review of the Negro’s Participation in the Wars of the United States. Especially Showing the Valor and Heroism of the Negro Soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalries, and the Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Fifth Infantries of the Regular Army; As Demonstrated in the Decisive Campaign around Santiago de Cuba, 1898, when These Soldiers Crowned Themselves with a Halo of Unfaded Glory View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(1902 African-American Regiments in Spanish-American War)AuthorCashin, Herschel; Charles Alexander; William T. Anderson; Arthur M. Brown; and Horace W. BivinsHeadline1902 African-American Regiments Span-Amer WarPublisherAmerican Publishing HouseDate Published[1902] Lot #372 The Brownsville Affray. Senate Report No. 355 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(1908 Dishonored Buffalo Soldiers of Brownsville, Texas)Author[Foraker, Joseph and Morgan Bulkeley]HeadlineBrownsville Affray. Senate Report No. 355PublisherU.S. Senate Committee on Military AffairsDate PublishedMarch 11, 1908 Lot #373 “Reverend London Ferrill” [in] Lore of the Meadowland: Short Studies in Kentuckiana View details Estimate$60 - $90StatusUnsold Heading(1911 First Kentucky Black Preacher)AuthorTownsend, John WilsonHeadline“Reverend London Ferrill” 1911PublisherJ.L. Richardson & Co.Date Published1911 Lot #374 From Log Cabin To the Pulpit, Or, Fifteen Years in Slavery View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Headingzzfbq(1913 From Log Cabin To The Pulpit, Fifteen Years In Slavery)AuthorRobinson, Rev. W.H.Headline1913 From Log Cabin To The PulpitPublisherJames H. TifftDate Published1913 Lot #377 Darkey Ditties - inscribed by the author View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(1915 Inscribed Black author’s "Darkey Ditties")AuthorHenderson, Elliott B.HeadlineDarkey Ditties - inscribed by the author 1915Date Published1915 Lot #378 The Crimson and Black. Published Monthly by Pupils of the M Street High School View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Headingzzfbu(1915 Rare Student Magazine of the 1st Black Elite High School)Author**HeadlineThe Crimson and Black March, 1915PublisherM Street High SchoolDate PublishedMarch, 1915 Lot #379 The Crimson and Black. Published Monthly by Pupils of the M Street High School View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Headingzzfbv(1915 High School Military Training for Future Black Army Officers)Author**HeadlineThe Crimson and Black Military Issue May 1915Date PublishedMay, 1915 Lot #380 First jazz published in America - The “Jelly Roll” Blues (Fox-Trot) View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Headingzzfbw(1916 African-American Music)AuthorMorton, FerdHeadline1916 First jazz published in AmericaPublisherWill RossiterDate Published1915 Lot #381 C.C.P.A. March and Two Step - only known copy of sheet music View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Headingzzfbx(1916 Ohio Colored Citizens Protective Association March by Los Angeles Jazz Musician – only known copy)AuthorChaplain John C. SpikesHeadlineC.C.P.A. March and Two Step 1916PublisherColored Citizens Protective AssociationDate Published1916 Lot #382 Victory: History of the 805th Pioneer Infantry, American Expeditionary Forces View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$162.50StatusSold Headingzzfby(1919 World War I Black Infantry Regimental History)AuthorBliss, Major Paul S.HeadlineHistory of the 805th Pioneer Infantry 1919Date Published1919 Lot #383 Songs and Spirituals of Negro Composition for Revivals and Congregational Singing View details Estimate$60 - $90StatusUnsold Heading(1921 - 1st Black cosmetics company Negro Spirituals Ad Book)AuthorOverton-Hygienic Co.HeadlineSongs and Spirituals of Negro Composition for RevDate Published1921 Lot #384 The History of the Negro Church View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Headingzzfca(1921 Carter Woodson, inscribed History of the Negro Church)AuthorWoodson, Carter GodwinHeadlineHistory of the Negro Church Inscribed by authorPublisherAssociated PublishersDate Published[1921] Lot #385 The Negro In Our History View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Heading(1928 Carter Woodson’s classic Black History)AuthorWoodson, Carter GodwinHeadlineThe Negro In Our History and Negro History WeekPublisherAssociated PublishersDate Published[1928] Lot #386 The Negro Professional Man and the Community, with Special Emphasis on the Physician and the Lawyer View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Headingzzfcc(1934 Carter Woodson’s Negro Professional Man)AuthorWoodson, Carter GodwinHeadline1934 Carter Woodson’s Negro Professional ManPublisherAssociation for the Study of Negro Life and HistoryDate Published[1934] Lot #388 36 Art Deco color pictorial labels for cosmetics products for African American women View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$125StatusSold Headingzzfcf(1934-49 Black Cosmetics Advertising)AuthorValmor Products Co.Headline1934-49 Black Cosmetics AdvertisingPublisherValmor Products Co.Date Published1934-49 Lot #389 Carter Woodson’s African Studies - two volumes View details Estimate$60 - $90StatusUnsold Heading(1936-39 Two African Studies by Carter Woodson)AuthorWoodson, Carter GodwinHeadlineTwo African Studies by Carter Woodson 1936-39PublisherAssociated PublishersDate Published[1936-1939] Lot #390 Partizan Zheleznyak - 1936 Paul Robeson's Russian Music from Stalin's Moscow View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$225StatusSold Headingzzfcg(1936 Paul Robeson, Signed Russian Music from Moscow)AuthorBlanter, Matvey, composerHeadlinePaul Robeson's copy of Russian sheet music 1936Date Published1936 Lot #391 The Negro and His Music - inscribed by the founder of the Harlem Renaissance to famed singer Marian Anderson View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$937.50StatusSold Headingzzfch(1936 Alain Locke's Negro And His Music, Inscribed to Marian Anderson)AuthorLocke, AlainHeadlineThe Negro and His Music insc to Marian AndersonPublisherAssociates in Negro Folk EducationDate Published1936 Lot #392 1940 Marian Anderson Tours Hawaii, Inscribed Photo View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Headingzzfci(1940 Marian Anderson Inscribed Photo on Hawaiian Tour)Author**Headline1940 Marian Anderson Tours Hawaii, Inscribed PhotDate Published1940 Lot #393 U.C.L.A. Yearbook for Jackie Robinson's junior year View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Headingzzfaaa(1940 - Jackie Robinson's Junior Year at U.C.L.A.)Author**HeadlineU.C.L.A. Yearbook for Jackie RobinsonDate Published1940 Lot #394 Dedication by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, South Side Community Art Center, May 7, 1941 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(1941 Eleanor Roosevelt Dedicates 1st African-American Art Museum in Chicago)AuthorRoosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D.HeadlineDedication by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, South SPublisherSouth Side Community Art CenterDate PublishedMay 7, 1941 Lot #395 Danceteria, Grand Anniversary And Bronze American Beauty Contest. Souvenir Album View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$100StatusSold Headingzzfcl(1941 Bronze American Beauty Contest, Portland, Oregon)Author**HeadlineDanceteria, Grand Anniversary And Bronze AmericanDate Published1941 Lot #396 Negro Digest, A Magazine of Negro Comment - ten issues from 1943-1949 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Headingzzfcn(1943-49 10 issues of John Johnson’s Negro Digest)AuthorJohnson, John H., managing editorHeadline1943-49 10 issues of John Johnson’s Negro DigestDate Published1943-49 Lot #397 Original 8x10 photograph of Katherine Dunham, inscribed - plus others View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Headingzzfco(1943-45 New Generation of Black Women Stars)AuthorDunham, KatherineHeadlineOriginal 8x10 photograph of Katherine DunhamDate Published1943-45 Lot #398 Infantry Day in the 92nd Division [cover title] - The "Buffalo" [Newspaper] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Headingzzfcp(1944 World War II Black Division that fought in Italy)Author**HeadlineInfantry Day in the 92nd Division 1944Date PublishedJune 15, 1944 Lot #399 Commencement Exercises of Brown's Egyptian Beauty College: April 9 & 10, 1944 at Hartzell Methodist Church - program View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold Headingzzfcm(1944 African-American Beauty College, Chicago)AuthorBrown, Madame G.M.HeadlineCommencement Exercises of Brown's Beauty CollegeDate Published1944 Lot #400 The Negro War Worker in San Francisco, A Local Self-Survey View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Headingzzfcq(1944 Negro War Worker In San Francisco)AuthorJohnson, Charles S., et al.HeadlineThe Negro War Worker in San Francisco, A Local SeDate PublishedMay, 1944 Lot #401 The Negro In The Armed Forces, His Value and Status – Past, Present and Potential View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$87.50StatusSold Headingzzfcr(1945 White Officer’s Case For Racial Integration Of The Armed Services)AuthorSchoenfeld, Seymour J.Headline1945 White Officer’s Case For Racial IntegrationPublisherAssociated PublishersDate Published1945 Lot #402 Flash Photography - 1947 Gordon Parks, 1st Photography Manual by an African-American View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Heading(1947 Gordon Parks. 1st Photography Manual by an African-American)AuthorParks, GordonHeadlineFlash Photography by Gordon Parks 1947PublisherFranklin WattsDate Published[1947] Lot #403 My Life Story View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Headingzzf(1947 Joe Louis)AuthorLouis, JoeHeadlineJoe Louis My Life Story First EditionPublisherDuell, Sloan and PearceDate Published[1947] Lot #404 "Can a Dope Addict Come Back?" - in Tan (magazine) View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Heading(1953 Billie Holliday Black magazine 'Confession')AuthorHolliday, BillieHeadline"Can a Dope Addict Come Back?" - in Tan magazineDate PublishedFebruary 1953 Lot #405 Typed Letter Signed as US Congressman View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Headingzzfcv(1966 Adam Clayton Powell's Harlem Vision)AuthorPowell, Adam ClaytonHeadlineTLs from Adam C Powell 1966Date PublishedAugust 3, 1966 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234|Next Previous 1234 Next Previous 1234 Next