COMSTOCK, ANNA BOTSFORD. Typed letter signed, one page, 8" x 10 1/2", on printed letterhead of The Ledge, Roberts Place, Cornell Heights, Ithaca, N.Y., 1 October 1920. To "Dear Friend", apparently replying to questions about a proposed curriculum (see below): "I was delighted to ... know that your your wonderful.....
"Colored People Have a Stake in the War." Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies: New York, 1940. Pamphlet on the African American interest and involvement in World War II. 4 panels measuring 8.5 x 3.75 inches. Printed on yellow paper with dark blue ink. Reads in part, "All.....
At the Big House. Indianapolis: Bobb Merrill, 1904. 348 pp. Gift inscription on ffep. Illustrator: Blaisdell, E. Warde. Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 in - 9 3/4 inches tall. A collection of folk tales from African Americans in southeastern Virginia and Cherokees in North Carolina. The stories from both.....
[Native American] [African American] [Children Literature] Anne Virginia Culbertson, At The Big House. Illustrator: Blaisdell, E. Warde. First Edition, First Printing.Hardcover. 348 pgs. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN. 1904. Illustrated with a color frontipiece with color plates throughout as well as black and white plates. "The stories presented in this.....
[HBCU] [Hampton School] Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow. Hampton and its Students by Two of its Teachers. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. First edition, 255 pages; beautiful folding wood-engraved frontispiece of the school and its grounds, 16 wood-engraved illustrations in text, 5 full-page illustrations, original.....
[Military] [African American] [World War II]. Roll of Honor, World's Great War for Freedom. Woodmere, NY: George J. Mayer, circa 1945. 19.5" x 15.5" inches, serving as frame for an original color photograph of a soldier, 5 x 3 1/4 inches oval to sight, and completed in manuscript with the.....
Collection of scored music with lyrics of African American gospel, spiritual songs, and plantation melodies: “Roll, Jordan Roll”, “The Gospel Train”, “Prepare Me, Lord”, “My Old Kentucky Home Good Night", etc. Ends with a three-page biography of the Williams’ group. Charles P. Williams of Holly Springs, Mississippi, organized this African-American.....
[African American] Archive of 63 vernacular photos of African American women c. 1950s-90s. Images are in color and black and white with measurements ranging from 5" x 7" to 2" x 2" in. One color photo shows 4 generations of Black women posed on stairs outside a large concrete building.....
Multiracial Integrated classroom Original Sepia-toned gelatin silver photograph. 1923. The image is aprox 8 in x 6 in, Inside the image there is plateon the floor in the center of the group that states "Harvey school, 5th Grade in 1923. "This is an urban school photo. One proud African American.....
S.J Holmes, The Negro's Struggle for Survival, A Study in Human Ecology. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1937. First edition. Original brown boards with dust jacket. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 296 pages including an index with a list of tables and illustrated with graphs and charts. The text is a......
Small lot of 3 advertisements with African American subjects. C. 1880s. Promotional card for a shoe store and 2 advertisements for Rising Sun Stove Polish. C. 1880s. Postcard measures 7 x 5 inches. Advertisements are printed together on one page measuring 7 x 6 inches. Postcard shows an African American.....
[African Americana] Our Colored Heroes Lithograph. E.G. Renesch: Chicago, 1918. Measures 14.5 x 11.5 inches. Title and copyright in lower margin. This lithograph was produced to commemorate the actions of two African American soldiers, Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts, who were cited for bravery and presented with the Croix de.....
[African Americana]. Civil War Outdoor tintype of a uniformed African American man with white men also in uniform. Civil war or reconstruction 19th century Era. Measures 2.25 x 3.25 inches. Image shows an outdoor gathering, possibly a militia encampment as the men are in military dress. An African American man.....
Archive of over 250 letters and paper materials concerning an interracial marriage. 1940s-50s. In addition to 130 handwritten letters, archive includes 30 typed letters and 115 pieces of paper ephemera including identification cards, handwritten poetry and illustrations by the child who was born from the union, drawn for his mother.....
May 1 Rally, Music, People. 16 1/4 x 11 inches; Original 1970's poster,horizontal fold, minor wear. New Haven, 1 May [1970] A poster for an event at the center of the New Haven May Day protests in 1970. The trial of Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins and others was underway, and.....
Black Power Student Magazine: Vibrations. Volume 1, number 2, Fall 1971. 39 pages. 8.5" x 11" inches. 8 illustrations accompany text throughout the magazine. Student literary publication from Lehman College, CUNY during the Black Power era. Features a mixture of poetry, short essays, theatrical scenes, and monologues revolving around themes.....
Imperial size albumen photograph of individual graduate portraits from Columbia University College of Pharmacy. Includes 8 female, and 3 African American students, one of them an African American woman. Professor H. Hart is a woman. Dated 1929. Large photo measures 16 x 20 inches. 111 student portraits and 14 faculty.....
New Orleans Recipes, Mary Moore Bremer. Waveland, Mississippi: 1932. 8" x 5.5" inches. 86 pages. Terracotta color soft cover with red spiral binding and attractive drawing of Bremer with red scarf tied around her hair, red lips and a large gold hoop earring. The book is dedicated to, "Dorothy Dix.....
[African American] [Education] Frank W. Padelford. “Christian Schools for Negroes.”New York: Board of Education of the Northern Baptist Convention", 1938. Original illustrated wraps, 23 pages.With 10 photo-illustrated images of HBCU campuses.. 9 x 5.5 inches. “The intelligence of the Negro race has often been called in question, but their rapid.....
Bureau of Educational Research, Howard University, Washington DC. The Journal of Negro Education A Quarterly Review of Problems Incident to the Education of Negroes Racial Minorities and the Present International Crisis. July 1941. In original wrappers. 622 pages. Tear on spine, toning on covers. Some foxing in interior, and some.....
Hand-colored albumen photograph representing an allegorical carte-de-visite of Emancipation. 1863. Published by "John Sowle, 14 Summer St., Boston." Illustration by George Gardner Fish. 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches on photographer's mount. Lady Liberty brandishes the Emancipation Proclamation, while two scantily clad enslaved people wrap her in the American flag.....
Family photo album 26 photographs from 8" x 10" to 2.5" x 3.5" inches. Album measures 10" x 12" inches and photos are mounted and covered on self-adhesive magnetic stick pages common during the time. Album's hard cover is red and black with "ALBUM" in gold gilt. The photographs show.....
Archive of 5 silver gelatin photos of African American mother and daughters. circa 1950s. Mounted to black album page measuring 12 x 11 inches. Photos measure between 3 x 5 and 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Subjects are a mother and three daughters pictured at different ages. In one photo the.....
Handbill for an Adam Clayton Powell event in Harlem. Handbill, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches;New York, 3 November 1968. A Harlem fundraiser event at the Renaissance Ballroom featuring the longtime congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., as well as soul music, a dance contest, and cash prizes, put on by.....
[African American] [Education] Yearbook for Lane College, HBCU institution in Tennessee, 1937. “The Lanite,” Vol. IX, 1937. Year book published by the Student Body of Lane College, Jackson, Tennessee. 46 pages [plus 5 unnumbered pages of ads and autograph space]. Contents include The College, Classes, Clubs and Organizations, Athletics, and.....