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Previous|1|Next Lot #4 Program for the first major US exhibition of Black master painter and American emigre Henry Ossawa Tanner View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(African-American Art, 1908)Headline1908 1st US exhibition of Black master painter Henry Ossawa TannerDate Published1908 Lot #5 Original signed 1941 cartoon art by the first nationally-acclaimed Black cartoonist View details Estimate$200 - $400Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(African-American art, 1941)Headline1941 original cartoon art, 1st famed African-American cartoonistDate Published1941 Lot #6 Rare Civil Rights-era Chicago Black Art Calendar in the WPA woodcut style View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(African-American Art, 1963)AuthorMargaret T. Burroughs and Charles G. Burroughs, compilersHeadlineRare WPA-style 1963 Chicago Black Art CalendarPublisherEbony Museum of Negro HistoryDate Published1963 Lot #7 Images of Dignity, The Drawings of Charles White View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$237.50StatusSold Heading(African-American Art, 1968, inscribed)HeadlineMaster artist Charles White, inscribed book, 1967PublisherWard Ritchie PressDate Published1967 Lot #8 Manuscript receipt/bill for services rendered by Dr. William Van Buren, including an injection to a slave View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1802)HeadlineReceipt for injecting a slaveDate PublishedJune 1, 1802 Lot #9 Massachusetts teacher letter as Maryland Slave overseer View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1842)HeadlineYankee teacher to Maryland Slave overseer, 1842 letterDate Published1842 Lot #10 Kentucky legal documents in a suit over ownership of a young female slave and her infant daughter View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1850)Headline1850 Kentucky legal documents about ownership of a female slave and her babyDate Published1850 Lot #11 Payment to a Confederate General for his slave's labor on "military fortifications" in South Carolina View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1864 Civil War)Headline1864 Civil War Document, Confederate General's slave in military laborDate Published1864 Lot #12 Black prisoner in Massachusetts protests racist injusticd during the Reconstruction days View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1869)Headline1859 Black prisoner in Massachusetts protests racist injusticdDate Published1869 Lot #13 ‘Colored Printer’ proposes a Black Republican newspaper in Florida during the 1884 presidential election View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1884)Headline1884 Florida 'Colored Printer' proposes Black Republican newspaperDate Published1884 Lot #14 Letter, Boston ‘Colored Voters’ Republican club in the 1884 presidential election View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1884)Headline1884 Boston 'Colored Voters' Republican Club in the presidential electionDate PublishedSept. 20, 1884 Lot #15 Baltimore Blacks fight racist voter discrimination View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1909)AuthorW.M. AlexanderHeadline1909 letter, Baltimore Blacks fight racist voter discriminationDate Published1909 Lot #16 Norris Wright Cuney, A Tribune of the Black People View details Estimate$100 - $200Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1913)AuthorHare, Maud CuneyHeadlineTexas Black political “boss”, 1913 biographyPublisherCrisis Publishing CompanyDate Published1913 Lot #17 'Father of Black History'Carter Woodson on Black History Week, 1928 letter View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1928)AuthorWoodson, C[arter] G.Headline1928 'Father of Black History' Carter WoodsonDate PublishedJanuary 4, 1929 Lot #18 Who's Who in Colored America: a Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Persons of African Descent in America, 1928-1929 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold HeadingAfrican-American, 1929)AuthorBoris, Joseph J, editorHeadlineWho's Who in Colored America, 1928-1929PublisherWho's Who in Colored America Corp.Date Published1929 Lot #19 Service Men’s Map of Washington / Full Information on Service Clubs, entertainment and Sightseeing... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1944 Map)Headline1944 GI Map of segregated World War II Washington, DCPublisherWar Hospitality Committee, Civilian War Service, courtesy of the Pepsi Cola Co.Date PublishedMay 15, 1944 Lot #20 Influential Black New York publisher warns, during World War II, of the "danger" to Blacks demanding their civil rights View details Estimate$200 - $400Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1944)AuthorC.B.PowellHeadline1944 Black publisher warns of "danger" to Blacks seeking civil rightsDate Published1944 Lot #21 Early ephemera of a Black folk singer at San Francisco's famous "hungry i" Club View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1953 San Francisco)HeadlineEphemera from famous SF "hungry i" ClubDate Publishedca. 1952 Lot #24 Letter linking anti-slavery cause to prophecy of the United Nations View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(American Peace Movement, 1849)Headline1840 Anti=slavery cause and the first American Peace MovementrDate Published1849 Lot #26 The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler with a memoir of her life and character by Benjamin Lundy View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Heading(Anti-slavery woman poet, 1836AuthorChandler, Elizabeth MargaretHeadline1836 Firstanti-slavery woman poet in AmericaDate Published1836 Lot #27 Letter, women's anti-slavery political demonstration in New York during the 1856 presidential election View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Anti-Slavery women, 1856 election)AuthorH.E. [Putel?]Headline1856 letter, anti-slavery women political demonstrationDate Published1856 Lot #28 Women Abolitionists of Philadelphia before the Mexican-American War View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(Anti-Slavery, Women Abolitionists, 1845)HeadlineAnti-slavery women of Philadelphia in 1945Date Published1845 Lot #46 Joe Louis vs Billy Conn, Polo Grounds, New York. June 18, 1941 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Boxing)HeadlineProgram for Joe Louis vs Billy ConnPublisherHarry M. StevensDate Published1941 Lot #53 Three works on California and New Mexico from the Biblioteca Aportacion Historica View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(California & New Mexico)HeadlineEarly exploration of Caiifornia & New MexicoPublisherBiblioteca Aportacion HistoricaDate Published1944 & 1947 Lot #93 Roster of Officers & Civil Agents on duty in the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands [with] two circular letters relating to the Bureau - all framed together View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Heading(Civil War - Reconstruction)HeadlineRoster of agents in Georgia Freedman's Bureau 1868Date Published1868 Lot #94 The Passing of the Armies View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Civil War)AuthorChamberlain, Joshua LawrenceHeadlineJoshua Chamberlain Passing of the ArmiesPublisherG.P. Putnam's SonsDate Published1915 Lot #95 The Image of War: 1861-1865 - inscribed View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Heading(Civil War)AuthorDavis, William C., editorHeadlineImage of War, 6 volumes, inscribedPublisherDoubleday & Company, Inc.Date Published1981-84 Lot #96 Memoirs: With Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(Civil War)AuthorReagan, John H.HeadlineReagan, Civil War Memoirs, 1906PublisherNeale Publishing CompanyDate Published1906 Lot #97 Two Years on the Alabama View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$112.50StatusSold Heading(Civil War)AuthorSinclair, ArthurHeadlineTwo Years on the Alabama 1896PublisherLee and ShepardDate Published1896 Lot #98 Small notebook of typed notes on Confederate Civil War veterans, transcripts and synopses of reminiscences and accounts by them, etc. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Civil War)HeadlineConfederate soldiers reminisceDate Publishedc.1934 Lot #99 Letter from the 1840s Baltimore journalist, designed the Confederate flag? View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Civil War)AuthorThompson, William TappanHeadline1840s Baltimore journalist, alleged designer of the Confederate flagDate Published1840s Lot #122 Letter of a West Point Cadet, a future Union General in the Civil War, criticizing Charles Dickens' book about his American travels View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Heading(Dickens West Point critic, Civil War General, 1843)AuthorCharles S[mith] HamiltonHeadline1843 Future Civil War General critiques Charles Dickens' anti-American "prejudice"Date Published1843 Lot #132 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorGrant, Ulysses S.HeadlinePersonal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, 1885PublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885-86 Lot #158 Proclamation of Emancipation - lithographed portrait within the text View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Lincoln, Abraham)AuthorPratt, W. H.HeadlineLincoln in Emancipation Proclamation textPublisherW. H. PrattDate Published1865 Lot #164 Scenes On Board a Man-of-War: U.S. Flag-Ship Tennessee (cover title) View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Maritime - Photographs)HeadlineScenese On Board a Man-of-War USS TennesseePublisherHatton & HartDate Published[1870s?] Lot #186 General Land Office document, a warrant of 160 acres of land given to Pedro Sanchez, "Private Captain", Pino’s Company, New Mexico Volunteers for his service during "New Mexico Indian Disturbances" View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(New Mexico - Indian Wars, 1860)Headline1860 land grant to Hispanic officer of Kit Carson's New Mexico VolunteersDate PublishedJan. 3, 1860. Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next