Sale 489: Americana - African-American History - Travel & Exploration - Cartography: Library of Jane Galante (#489) 09/27/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/27/2012 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 489 45 PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 301-400 of 467. Previous|12345|Next Lot #334 Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorThwaites, Reuben Gold, editorHeadlineEarly Western Travels, 1748-1846 1 of 750 setsPublisherArthur H. ClarkDate Published1904-1907 Lot #335 Home To His Chesterfields! View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Tobacco Advertisement - original art)Author**HeadlineTobacco Advertisement - original artDate Publishedc.1945 Lot #337 Geology and Industrial Resources of California View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorTyson, Philip T[homas]HeadlineGeology & Industrial Resources of CA 1851 w/ mapsPublisherWm. MinifieDate Published1851 Lot #338 The Union Pacific Railroad Company, Chartered by the United States. Progress of their Road West from Omaha, Nebraska, Across the Continent. Making, With Its Connections, an Unbroken Line from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Five Hundred Miles Completed October 25, 1867 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Union Pacific Railroad)Author**HeadlinePromotional pamphlet for Union Pacific RR 1867PublisherC.A. Alvord, PrinterDate Published1867 Lot #339 Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn, Together with Scenes in El Dorado, in the Years 1849-1850 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorUpham, Samuel C.HeadlineNotes of a Voyage to California Via Cape HornPublisherPublished by the authorDate Published1878 Lot #341 Juan Maria de Salvatierra of the Company of Jesus; Missionary in the Province of New Spain, and Apostolic Conqueror of the California View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$100StatusSold AuthorVenegas, MiguelHeadlineJuan Maria de Salvatierra of the Company of JesusPublisherArthur H. Clark CompanyDate Published1929 Lot #342 John Colter, Discoverer of Yellowstone Park: An Account of His Explorations in 1807 and of His Further Adventures as Hunter; Trapper; Indian Fighter; Pathfinder and Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorVinton, StalloHeadlineJohn Colter, Discoverer of Yellowstone ParkPublisherEdward EberstadtDate Published1926 Lot #343 The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorWagner, Henry R.HeadlineWagner, Cartography of the Northwest CoastPublisherUniversity of California PressDate Published1937 Lot #344 Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World. Its Aims and Achievements View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold AuthorWagner, Henry R.HeadlineFrancis Drake's Voyage Around the World 1926PublisherJohn HowellDate Published1926 Lot #345 Vermont in the Great Rebellion View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorWaite, Otis F.R.HeadlineVermont in the Great RebellionPublisherTracy, Chase and CompanyDate Published1869 Lot #346 The Writings of George Washington; Being his Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private...with a Life of the Author... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Washington, George)AuthorSparks, JaredHeadlineWritings of George Washington 12 vols 1838Date Published1837-1838 Lot #347 Twentieth Century Souvenir of the Spokane Fire Department 1901 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Heading(Washington - Spokane)Author**HeadlineSouvenir of the Spokane Fire Department 1901PublisherInland Printing CompanyDate Published1901 Lot #348 The Spanish Occupation of California: Plan for the Establishment of a Government; Junta or Council Held at San Blas, May 16, 1768; Diario of the Expeditions Made to California View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorWatson, Douglas S., comp.HeadlineThe Spanish Occupation of California GrabhornPublisherGrabhorn PressDate Published1934 Lot #349 California in the Fifties View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorWatson, Douglas S., edHeadlineCalifornia in the Fifties 1/100 1936PublisherJohn HowellDate Published1936 Lot #351 Warrant signed by West Virginia Governor William E. Stevenson ordering the arrest of Ohio resident James Giddy, who is suspected of committing murder in that state and then fleeing to West Virginia View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(West Virginia)AuthorStevenson, Wiliam E.HeadlineWarrant signed by West Virginia GovernorDate PublishedDec. 16, 1869 Lot #352 Western Pennsylvania Rail Road Company stock certificate View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Western Pennsylvania Rail Road Company)Author**HeadlineWestern Pennsylvania RR Co stock certificate 1863Date Published1863 Lot #353 Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorWilkes, CharlesHeadlineNarrative of US Exploring by Wilkes 1838-42PublisherLea & BlanchardDate Published1845 Lot #354 Reminiscences of California Life. Being An Abridged Description of Scenes which the Author has passed through in California, and other Lands. With Quotations from other Authors. A Short Lecture on Psychic Science. An Article on Church and State: Written by his son; R. P. Willcox View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorWillcox, R. N.HeadlineWillcox, Reminiscences of California LifePublisherWillcox Print.Date Published1897 Lot #355 A History of the College of California View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorWilley, Samuel LHeadlineA History of the College of California 1887PublisherSamuel CarsonDate Published1887 Lot #356 Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorWilliams, Mary FloydHeadlinePapers ofthe San Francisco Committee of VigilancePublisherUniversity of California PressDate Published[1919] Lot #357 Five commissions for career Navy officer Edward A. Mitchell, one signed by Woodrow Wilson as President View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Wilson, Woodrow, etc.)Author**HeadlineCommissions forNavy officer Edward A. MitchellDate Published1917-1942 Lot #358 Narrative and Critical History of America View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorWinsor, Justin (ed.)HeadlineNarrative and Critical History of AmericaPublisherHoughton, MifflinDate Published1889 Lot #359 Los Gringos or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorWise, Lieut. [Henry A.]HeadlineLos Gringos by Lieut. Wise 1850PublisherBaker and ScribnerDate Published1850 Lot #360 Winning Equal Suffrage in California. Reports of Committees of the College Equal Suffrage League of Northern California in the Campaign of 1911 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(Women's Suffrage)Author**HeadlineWoman Suffrage in CaliforniaPublisherNational College Equal Suffrage LeagueDate Published[1913] Lot #361 Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorWoods, Daniel B.HeadlineSixteen Months at the Gold DiggingsPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1851 Lot #362 Recollections of Pioneer Work in California View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorWoods, JamesHeadlineJames Woods in Gold Rush CaliforniaPublisherJoseph WinterburnDate Published1878 Lot #363 Yosemite and the Big Trees of California [cover title]: E.S. Denison's Yosemite Views [on half title] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold Heading(Yosemite)Author[Denison, E.S.]HeadlineYosemite and the Big Trees of California 1881Publisher[E.S. Denison]Date Published[1881] Lot #364 My Trip to Yosemite: From the Journal of Emilie Sussman, 1872 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Yosemite)AuthorSussman, EmilieHeadlineMy Trip to Yosemite signed by Emilie SussmanPublisher[Grabhorn Press]Date Published1939 Lot #365 Collection of works about Yosemite View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Yosemite)Author**HeadlineCollection of works about YosemiteDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #366 Six volumes on Yosemite View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(Yosemite)Author**HeadlineSix volumes on YosemiteDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #367 Ten volumes on Americana, mostly about Yosemite View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Yosemite)Author**HeadlineTen volumes on YosemiteDate PublishedVarious date Lot #368 Twelve volumes on Yosemite View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Yosemite)Author**HeadlineTwelve volumes on YosemiteDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #369 Nine volumes of Yosemite photography View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Yosemite Photography)Author**HeadlineNine volumes of Yosemite photographyDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #370 Manuscript Letter Signed by Brigham Young, to beekeeper Hiram Hamilton in Bantas, Cal. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorYoung, BrighamHeadlineLetter from Brigham Young, to a beekeeperDate PublishedFeb. 21, 1872 Lot #371 San Francisco: A History of the Pacific Coast Metropolis View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorYoung, John P.HeadlineSF History of Pacific Coast Metropolis 1st edPublisherS.J. Clarke Publishing Co.Date Published[1912] Lot #373 Autograph Letter, signed, regarding Henri Christophe's revolution View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Haiti)AuthorLewis, J[ohn]HeadlineALS re Christophe's revolution in Haiti in 1807Date PublishedMarch 8, 1807 Lot #374 Facts illustrating a Disease peculiar to the female children of Negro Slaves; and Observations, showing that a white woman by intercourse with a white man and a negro, may conceive twins, one of which shall be white, and the other a mulatto... - study of slave medicine by the first American M.D. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Slave Medicine)AuthorArcher, John, M.D.Headlineslave medicine in 1810Date Published1810 Lot #375 Autograph Letter Signed - 1817 Washington, D.C. "Slavery Cherished in the Same Cradle with Liberty" View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Headingzzfac(1817 Slavery in Washington, D.C.)AuthorLivermore, Ar[thur]HeadlineALs from member of congress, describing slaveryDate PublishedDec. 1, 1817 Lot #376 Document calling for the end to the "great national evil" of slavery View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorWolcott, Oliver and Thomas DayHeadlinedocument to end slavery in ConnecticutDate Published1825 Lot #377 Autograph letter, signed from the Secretary of the American Colonization Society to Daniel Webster, making a case for African "colonization" View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorGurley, R[alph] R[andolph]HeadlineALs from RR Gurley to Daniel Webster 1826Date PublishedFeb. 6, 1826 Lot #379 Abigail Mott's anti-slavery manuscript for the Quaker catechism View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorMott, Abigail FieldHeadlineAbigail Mott's anti-slavery manuscript 1837Date PublishedJan. 30, 1837 Lot #380 1837 Anti-Slavery Movement Muffled in New Hampshire - Manuscript article submitted to an anti-slavery newsletter View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Author**HeadlineMss article submitted to antislavery pub 1837Date PublishedJanuary 4, 1837 Lot #381 Autograph letter, signed - written after slavery was abolished in British Guiana View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorWatson, Peter M.HeadlineALs written after slavery abolished 1838Date PublishedJuly 10-15, 1838 Lot #382 Maryland ex-slave's certificate of freedom View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(Emancipated Slave)AuthorDadyman, EzraHeadlineMaryland ex-slave's certificate of freedom 1840Date PublishedJanuary 28, 1840 Lot #383 The Liberty Bell View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorFriends of FreedomHeadlineThe Liberty Bell by Friends of Freedom 1841PublisherMassachusetts Anti-Slavery FairDate Published1841 Lot #384 Autograph letter, signed with her initial, from the first woman doctor in America, and a teacher to slave children in North Carolina View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorBlackwell, ElizabethHeadlineALs from Elizabeth Blackwell 1845 1st lady dr.Date PublishedAugust 2, [1845] Lot #385 Autograph Letter Signed - Maine Yankee in Mississippi defends Slavery View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Slavery)AuthorSweetser, A.P.Headlineletter defending slavery 1845Date PublishedFebruary 21, 1845 Lot #386 Autograph letter, signed from a Kentucky ex-slave, an outspoken missionary in Liberia View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorPriest, Rev. James M.HeadlineALs from Kentucky ex-slave, missionary 1845Date PublishedJanuary 17, 1845 Lot #387 Autograph Letter Signed - 1846 Violence Against Bi-Racial Family in New York View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorFisher, Rev. W.W.HeadlineALs from Rev describing hate crime in 1846Date PublishedMay 25, 1846 Lot #388 "Jim Crow Jubilee" sheet music 1847 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(1847 Early 'Jim Crow' Music)Author**Headline"Jim Crow Jubilee" sheet music 1847PublisherReedDate Published1847 Lot #389 Autograph letter, signed from a New England teacher in Alabama who opposes slavery View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorM[oore], LevinaHeadlineALs from New England teacher who opposes slaveryDate PublishedDecember 1, 1848 Lot #390 Autograph Letter Signed - 1849 Virginia Fugitive Slaves Escape on the Underground Railroad View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorShrewsbury, JoelHeadlineALs discussing fugitive slaves in VirginiaDate PublishedJuly 30, 1849 Lot #391 Autobiographic Autograph Letter - 1849 Famed Anti-Slavery Minister Persecuted in Kentucky View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorFee, Rev. John G.HeadlineALs from leading Kentucky abolitionist 1849Date PublishedOctober 30, 1849 Lot #392 Autograph letter, signed giving a first-hand account of Christiana "Slave Riot" View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorFogle, David H. and Elizabeth A. FogleHeadlineALs about Christiana slave riot 1851Date PublishedOctober 27, 1851 Lot #393 Autograph Letter Signed - 1852 "Too Many Freed Negroes" in North Carolina View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorCastin, MilesHeadlineALs about too many freed negroes in N.C. 1852Date PublishedNov. 15, 1852 Lot #394 Printed Circular on Enforcement of Negro Exclusion (Article 13 of state Constitution) and State promotion of African Colonization, with integral attached form for Applicants For A Passage To Liberia View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorMitchell, James, Secretary, Indiana Colonization OfficeHeadlinePrinted Circular on Enforcement of Negro ExclusioDate PublishedMarch 10, 1853 Lot #395 1853 Auction of a Slave Child and Later Ku Klux Klan Cover-Up View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorGraham, Walter C. / Anthony, Graham H.Headlinedocument recording sale of a slave child, ku kluxDate PublishedSeptember 29, 1853 / December 28, 1917 Lot #396 Autograph Letter Signed - 1857 Virginia Slave Owner on Negro Rebellion View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorBurwell, H.B.HeadlineALs from Virginia slave owner about slaves 1857Date PublishedJanuary 12, 1857 Lot #397 The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern...The African Slave Trade...in the United States View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold AuthorBlake, W[illiam] O.HeadlineThe History of Slavery and the Slave TradePublisherJ. & H. MillerDate Published1858 Lot #398 Black Diamonds Gathered in the Darkey Homes of the South View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold AuthorPollard, Edward A.HeadlineBlack Diamonds Gathered in the Darkey Homes of thPublisherPudney & RussellDate Published1859 Lot #399 Autograph letter, signed from a future Governor prosecuted in Illinois in 1859 for feeding a hungry black View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorSt. John, John P.HeadlineALs from a man prosecuted for feeding blackDate PublishedNovember 10, 1884 Lot #400 Autograph Letter Signed - 1860 Future Union Army Railroad Chief Protects Black Workers in Kentucky View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Headingzzfaq(1860 Black Workers in Kentucky)AuthorAnderson, A[dna]HeadlineALs from Kentucky railroad black workerDate PublishedDecember 24, 1860 Lot #401 Slave Caricatures on four Civil War Patriotic Envelopes View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Heading(1861-64 Slave Caricatures)Headline4 envelopes with slave caricatures c.1861PublisherD. Murphy's Son / King & BairdDate Published[c.1861] Lot #402 General Orders, No. 109. War Department, Adjutant General's Office - printed war document from President Lincoln, ordering Union Army to employ ex-slaves View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorLincoln, AbrahamHeadlineLincoln war document employing ex-slaves in armyDate PublishedAugust 16, 1862 Lot #403 Autograph letter, signed enlisting mistreated slaves as Union soldiers in Louisiana View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorCarter, William S.HeadlineALs recruiting mistreated slaves to Union 1863Date PublishedMay 13, 1863 Lot #404 Autograph letter, signed from a man with "great faith" in black soldiers View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorMcFarland, DavidHeadlineALs from a man praising black soldiers 1863Date PublishedJune 8, 1863 Lot #405 Autograph Letter Signed - 1863 Confederate Soldier Jokes About Sex with Slave Women View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorRendleman, A.H.HeadlineALs from a Confederate soldier in 1863Date PublishedJune 8th 1863 Lot #406 Carte-de-visite of "A Slave Girl from New Orleans" - a white slave View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Photography)Author**Headlinecarte de visite of a white slave girlPublisherCharles PaxsonDate Published1864 Lot #407 Autograph letter, signed from a naval officer calling for "able-bodies negroes" View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorSelfridge (Jr.), Lt. Commander Thomas O.HeadlineALs from a naval officer calling for negroesDate PublishedAug. 8, 1864 Lot #408 Autograph letter, signed from an Ohio soldier in Tennessee hailing abolition of slavery View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Headingzzfau(1865 An Ohio Soldier on Abolition)Author"Charley" [Atkin, Charles]HeadlineALs from Ohio soldier hailing abolition of slaverDate PublishedFebruary 22, 1865 Lot #409 Autograph letter, signed from a South Carolina resident who fears the arrival of black troops View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Author“Cousin Lou”.HeadlineALs from SC woman who fears black troops 1865Date PublishedAugust 13, 1865 Lot #410 Printed and handwritten document signed, as Chief Medical Officer, War Department Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorEdwards, Colonel L.W. Surgeon, US ArmyHeadlinearmy dr to ex-slaves at Freedman's villageDate PublishedJune 11, 1867 Lot #411 1868 America's First Racist Newspaper - Printed letter and subscription form for The New York Weekly Day-Book View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorVan Enrie, Horton & Co.Headlinesubscription form for NY Weekly Day Book 1868PublisherOffice of the Day-BookDate Published1868 Lot #412 Autograph Letter Signed - 1868 Historic Court Decision Integrating Iowa Public Schools View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorRichman, J. ScottHeadlineALs from a judge, ordering racial integ in IowaDate PublishedJanuary 21, 1868 Lot #413 Call for a State Convention: To the Colored Men of the State of New York - printed broadside View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorMolson, H.C., Frederick Douglass, et al.HeadlineCall for a State Convention 1869 broadsideDate Published[1869] Lot #414 Autograph Letter - 1869 Helping Blacks Fight the KKK in Tennessee View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Headingzzfaaa(1869 Fighting the Klan in Tennessee)Author[Hunter, Rev. Leander]HeadlineALs from a man helping fight the KKK 1869Date PublishedMarch 31, 1869 Lot #415 Autograph Letter Signed - 1871 Negro Joke by Future Supreme Court Justice View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(African American)AuthorBlatchford, SamuelHeadlineSam Blatchford ALs w/racist joke 1871Date PublishedDecember 22, 1871 Lot #416 The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A. First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military Academy View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorFlipper, Henry O.HeadlineColored Cadet at West Point 1878PublisherHomer Lee & Co.Date Published1878 Lot #417 Autograph Note Signed - 1880s 1st College for Black Women in America View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorPackard, S[ophia]HeadlineANs from founder of 1st college for black womenDate Published[c.1885] Lot #418 The Life of St. Patrick, Bishop and Confessor, Apostle of Ireland View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(New York Black Catholic imprint)AuthorButler, Rev. AlbinHeadlineLife of St. Patrick, Bishop and Confessor 1880sPublisher"Home" Book StoreDate Published[c.1883-85] Lot #419 1887 Deed document, signed by James Monroe Trotter - a patriarch of the Boston "Black Elite" View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Heading(African American - 1887 Boston "Black Elite" patriarch)AuthorTrotter, James M[onroe], RecorderHeadlinedeed signed by James Monroe Trotter 1887Date PublishedMay 11, 1887 Lot #420 The Thompson Street Poker Club from "Life" View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$237.50StatusSold Author[Carleton, Henry Guy]HeadlineBlack caricature in Thompson Street Poker ClubPublisherWhite & AllenDate Published1888 Lot #421 Autograph letter Signed from the New York photographer of Harriet Tubman View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Heading(Photographer of Harriet Tubman, 1889)AuthorLindsley, H[arvey] B.HeadlinePhotography, African-American, Harriet TubmanPublisherSunbeam GalleryDate PublishedSeptember 24, 1889 Lot #422 1890 Sympathetic Black Art by Humphrey Bogart's Mother View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorHumphrey, MaudHeadlineart by Humphrey Bogart's mother Maud 1890PublisherFrederick A. StokesDate Published1890 Lot #423 Typed Letter Signed - 1892 Heroic "Glory" Officer Stoops to Racist Politics in West Virginia View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorAppleton, John W.M.HeadlineTLs from racist republican politician, 1892Date PublishedNovember 6, 1892 Lot #424 Printed letter from the Department of the Interior, Census Office - with problems of black census-taking in the rural south View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold AuthorPorter, Robert P.HeadlineCensus letter 1891 by Robert PorterPublisherDepartment of Interior, Census OfficeDate PublishedJanuary 31, 1891 Lot #425 Typed letter, signed from Joel Chandler Harris - after "Uncle Remus" View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold HeadingzzcAuthorHarris, Joel ChandlerHeadlineTLs from Joel Chandler Harris 1893Date PublishedFebruary 23, 1893 Lot #426 Autograph letter, signed on pictorial stationery, with photograph of William Davis in black-face View details Estimate$60 - $90StatusUnsold Heading(1895 "Black-Face" Entertainment)AuthorHall, William DavisHeadlineALs from Wm Davis w/photo of "black-face" 1895Date PublishedAugust 20, 1895 Lot #427 1887-1907 Black Political Elite After Frederick Douglass - Documents signed by 3 African Americans who, following in the footsteps of Frederick Douglass, received Presidential appointments to federal office after the Civil War View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Heading(African American)AuthorTaylor, C.H.J. and J.W. LyonsHeadlinedocs signed by 2 Presidential "Black Elite"Date Published1896-1907 Lot #428 Autograph Letter Signed - 1897 Rumors of Lynching in West Virginia View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorWyatt, C.R., AttorneyHeadlineALs from lawyer about a lynchin in W. Va. 1897Date PublishedApril 29, 1897 Lot #429 1898 “Surgical Peculiarities of the Negro Race” in Alabama - article within Transactions of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorFletcher, Richard Matthew, Jr.HeadlineSurgical Peculiarities of the Negro Race 1898PublisherBrown Printing Co.Date Published1898 Lot #430 The “Eighth Illinois” - a rare Spanish-American regimental history of the first colored troops commanded entirely by black officers View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Spanish-American War)AuthorGoode, Corporal W.T.Headline8th Illinois by WT Goode 1899PublisherBlakely Printing CompanyDate Published1899 Lot #431 Tuskegee: Its Story and Its Work. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(1900 Tuskegee by Booker T. Washington's Ghostwriter)AuthorThrasher, Max BennettHeadlineTuskegee by Max Bennett Thrasher 1900PublisherSmall, Maynard & CompanyDate Published1900 Lot #432 Blue & White. Los Angeles High School [Year Book] - with Senior photograph of Frederick Roberts, the school's first black student (later the first California Black legislator) View details Estimate$10StatusUnsold Heading(1900 Los Angeles High School Graduates 1st Black California Legislator)HeadlineLA high school year book winter 1902Date Published1902 [1900] Lot #433 "No suh! I ain't seed yuh chickens" - Stereoview with stereotype African-American theme View details Estimate$60 - $90StatusUnsold Heading(Stereoview)HeadlineAfrican American stereoview cardPublisherH.C. White Co.Date Publishedc.1903 Lot #434 Twenty Years In Public Life, 1890-1910, North Carolina-Tennessee View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(1910 Black Senator in Segregated North Carolina)AuthorFuller, Thomas O[scar]HeadlineTwenty Years In Public Life 1910PublisherNational Baptist Publishing Co.Date Published1910 Lot #435 The Colored Ladies’ Political Club, Or The Colored Suffragettes, A Female Minstrel Afterpiece View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$112.50StatusSold Heading("Black-Face" Entertainment)AuthorPerkins, Sophie HuthHeadlineBlack Face skit 1910-16PublisherT.S. DenisonDate Published1910 Lot #436 The Common School and the Negro American. Report of a Social Study made by Atlanta University…with the Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference for the Study of the Negro Problem View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorDu Bois, W.E.B and Augustus Granville Dill, editorsHeadlineCommon School and the Negro American 1911PublisherAtlanta University PressDate Published1911 Lot #437 Typed letter with autograph note, signed by the first black woman missionary to Africa View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorD[elany], E[mma] B.HeadlineTLs from 1st black woman missionary to AfricaDate PublishedJanuary 5, 1912 Lot #439 1915 "Injustice of African Exclusion" and "Protection of Negro Womanhood" - Two offprints of speeches by Illinois Congressman Martin B. Madden View details Estimate$60 - $90StatusUnsold Heading(1915 Offprints)AuthorMadden, Hon. Martin B[arnaby]Headline2 Govt offprints of Martin Madden speechesPublisherGPODate Published1915 Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345|Next Previous 12345 Next Previous 12345 Next