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[Chicano Literature] Con Safos. Vol 2 No. 5. 1970, Los Angeles. 48 pages, 8" x 10.5." Bound in bright orange illustrated wrappers with a portrait drawing of Cesar Chavez before a bunch of grapes. Con Safos was a leading Chicano literary and art magazine that emerged in the East Los.....
[Feminism] Women: A Journal of Liberation. Vol 1 No. 1. Fall 1969, Baltimore. 64 pages, 11" x 8.5." Inaugural issue of key feminist magazine. Bound in cream illustrated wrappers. This issue's theme is "Inherent Nature of Cultural Conditioning?" and its cover bears an image of two young women appearing forlorn.....
[Feminism] Women: A Journal of Liberation. Vol 1 No. 4. Summer 1970, Baltimore. 64 pages, 11" x 8.5." Feminist magazine bound in bright orange illustrated wrappers. This issue's theme is "In Revolution" and its cover bears an image of a shouting woman breaking through chains, her chin lifted in determination.....
[African American Women] Photographic archive of an African American family in the 1950s. Archive includes 15 silver gelatin photographs depicts the daily life of Rosette Hendricks-Blunt, a Black woman in New England, as she grows into adulthood. Photo sizes range from 2.5" x 1.5" to 3.5" x 5.5." One photograph.....
[African American Photography] Cabinet card original photograph of beautifully dressed African American woman. Los Angeles, California. 7.5" x 5.2." An African-American woman wears a ruffled white gown and decorative spring hat. Next to her is a table covered with ornate blankets. Studio blindstamp underneath image reads, "Bijou Studio, Los Angeles.....
[Harmon Percy Marble] [Native American Photography] Photograph of Navajo family. American Southwest, circa 1920. Measures 5" x 7." Image depicts a Native American mother and her two daughters sitting on the ground, a horse standing in the background. Photographer Harmon Marble is most known for his extensive photography of Navajo.....
[African American CDV Photo] 19th century albumen carte de viste photograph of a young African American woman in formal dress, presumably taken a few years after the end of the Civil War. Circa 1870s, New Bedford, Massachusetts. 4" x 2.5." Back of photograph bears photography studio: "Henry F. Hatch 642.....
[African American Photograph] Original 19th Cent. Carte de viste photograph of an African American woman finely dressed in a high-fashion coat with puffed sleeves and golden buttons. She wears an ornate straw hat with feather decoration, circa 1870. She is poised and the expression on her face exudes dignity and.....
[African American] [Photography] Cabinet card photograph depicts an attractive young African American woman in formal dress. She wears a high collar with a golden brooch and has a serious expression. Circa 1880s. Photography studio is C. Jackson's, located in Hannibal, Missouri. 6.5" x 4." Card bears front gilt caption: "Hannibal.....
[Mexican American] Photo album containing 100 photographs of a Mexican-American family living on a ranch in Oregon in 1947. Album measures 10.5" x 13." Photos range from 2.5" x 1.5" to 5" x 3" with a few larger images. Judging by the location and time period, we can assume that.....
Guevara, Che. La Guerra de Guerrillas. Publisher: Departamento de Instruccion del MINFAR. 1960. First edition. 187 pages, 8" x 5.5." Illustrated wrappers with original staples. This Spanish-language handbook for guerilla warfare by Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Che Guevera, predates all other edition. Che Guevara here analysis the Revolution in Cuba and writes.....
19th Century Archive of 23 School Merit Awards. These illustrated cards were each given to students as tokens of congratulations and scholastic achievement or good behavior. Sizes range from 3.5" x 2.5" to larger at 9" x 6.5." These small tokens of congratulation given to students for good behavior and.....
[LGBT] Kornbluth, Cyril M under the pseudonym Jordan Park. Half. 1953, New York City. Lion Books. 160 pages, 6.5" x 4.5." First edition. Pulp novel about an intersex, non-binary character. Subtitle reads: "What was his body's dark secret that made him neither man nor woman?" Bound in vibrant wrappers. Front.....
Large archive of 61 School Merit Awards and other late 19th Century cards. Each card sizes range from 2.5" x 1.5" to 5" x 2.5." These small illustrated cards were given to students as tokens of congratulations and scholastic achievement. Illustrations include snowy scenes, nature landscapes, children, dogs, flowers, and.....
Early 1800s handwritten arithmetic commonplace book. 36 Handwritten pages, 10" x 8." Includes various introductory math lessons, including Numeration, Multiplication, and other mathematical operations plus several pages of medical family recipes. First page reads: "Teaches to express numbers by words or figures or to read and write any sum or.....
Slave registry document "Empadronamiento General de esclavos" from Arecibo, Puerto Rico. 1868. The enslaved person's name is Melchor, and he is described as being of small stature, with black eyes and skin. Melchor is being signed into the property of one Felipe Correa. Document bears official coat of arms of.....
Women's International Democratic Federation. For Their Rights as Mothers Workers Citizens. Berlin 1953. Bound in tan illustrated wrappers. 62 pages, 8" x 6." Feminist pamphlet on the international subjugation of women, job and wage discrimination, and the exploitation of female labor. Contains many black-and-white photos of women workers from around.....
Uncle Tom's Cabin: two broadsides for the popular stage adaptation. One is from 1877, the other circa 1870s. Broadsides display prices, locations, and advertising language. Measurements range 10" x 7.5" and 23.5" x 6." One is from Bourbon, Indiana, the other Biddeford, Maine. First premiering in 1852 to wild success.....
McWilliams, Carey. Pamphlet: What About Our Japanese-Americans? New York, First Edition. 1944. Blue wrappers. Public Affairs Committee. 31 pages. Includes some small black and white illustrations of the Japanese-American plight during the war with captions underneath. Pamphlet was written two years after the U.S. began putting Japanese people in camps.....
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. A group of two documents recording the sale of enslaved persons in Cuba. Dated 1872. Two doublesided folio pages with Cuban government seals from ledger recording legal events in eastern Cuba. 8.25 x 12.5 inches. Dated 1872-1877, and with Cuban government seals. These two documents record the.....
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. A group of two documents recording the sale of enslaved persons in Cuba. Dated 1872. Two doublesided folio pages with Cuban government seals from ledger recording legal events in eastern Cuba. 8.25 x 12.5 inches. Dated 1872-1877, and with Cuban government seals. These two documents record the.....
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. A group of two documents recording the sale of enslaved persons in Cuba. Dated 1872. Two doublesided folio pages with Cuban government seals from ledger recording legal events in eastern Cuba. 8.25 x 12.5 inches. Dated 1872-1877, and with Cuban government seals. These two documents record the.....
Photo album published in 1939 from Eretz, Israel, by “The Palestine Cigarette Co, LTD”. Consists of 216 photographs from the archive of the Jewish National Fund and the National Zionist Archive, depicting Jewish defense forces, building activities, and more. Album measures 13” x 9” and photos are around 5” x......
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION] The Liberator. 4 pages. Vol. XIV, No. 31. Boston, MA: 2 August 1844. Abolitionist newspaper which was widely circulated in the antebellum period. 18" x 24." Header illustration features white enslavers selling "slaves, horses & other cattle" at auction, while a group of African Americans stand nearby.....
The Militant. Vol. 33 No. 18. New York, 2 May 1969. Newspaper Published by the Socialists' Party of America. 12 pages, 17" x 11." Contains articles, announcements, photos, illustrations, and political cartoons. Its slogan, "Published in the interests of the Working People," is printed on the masthead. The cover article.....