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Photo Album of African American military family from Toledo, Ohio. 1980-90s. 85 photos, most of them polaroids, showing family life, a vacation to a Las Vegas casino, school graduations and military service. Blue spiral-bound album measures 10 x 11.5 inches. Photos mounted to 10 pages. Album also includes ID cards.....
Our Bodies Our Selves, A Course By And For Women, New Printing of Women and Their Bodies. Boston Women's Health Course Collective and New England Free Press: 1971. First Edition, Fourth printing. 136 pages. 8.5" x 10.5" inches. Front soft cover shows black and white photo of three women marching.....
Slavery and Abolition. Estate settlement detailing the hire of three enslaved individuals: Jane, Calvin, and Henry. Alabama 14 May 1860. 4 pages. 7 3/4" x 12 1/4." A manuscript settlement of the estate of Lemuel Skinner (1786-1859) that details the hire of three named enslaved individuals, Henry, Jane, and Calvin.....
George Loskiel, History of the Mission of the United Brethren Among the Indians in North America. First edition. London: The Brethren's Society, 1794. Contemporary half calf with red leather title label. 5.5 x 8 inches. 618 pages. Loskiel was presiding bishop of the American province of the Moravian Church known.....
Receipt for the medical care of sick and pregnant African-American slaves. N.p., 26 June 1862. 1 page, 7" x 4 5/8". Manuscript receipt for the "Est of OHP Gregg" that includes "Midwife for Clarrissa and May $4 each" and "Brand Clothing Tax Negro woman (sick) and three small children, 1.....
A ninth plate tintype of an African American woman. Measures 2 1/2" x 2 2/3". An African American young lady is pictured wearing a dress with a laced collar. This image is quite dark and is housed in a whole wooden case, with gold velvet interior opposite photo and gold.....
19th century Photograph of an African American woman. Ninth plate tintype 2 1/2" x 2 2/3". In this tintype, an African American woman wears a striped dress and stands beside a wooden chair, holding what appears to be a stick or a broom. "E.S Dunshee" is printed on the gold-tone.....
[Japanese-American][Japanese Photography] Adams, Ansel. Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans. New York: U.S. Camera, 1944. Paperback. First Edition, First Printing. 112 pages total, including 65 photographs. Soft cover stapled maroon wrappers with light green titled lettering. Measures 11" x 8". Born Free and Equal: The Story of.....
Archive of seven original press photos from 1966-86 of Cesar Chavez and the UFW advocating for farm workers. Photos range from 9" x 6.5" to 11" x 8" inches. Black and white silver gelatin print photographs. The earliest photo from 1966 depicts Chavez leading a march in a sunny field.....
[African American] St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. New York, 1945. First edition. 809 pages. Landmark sociological analysis of Black life in Chicago's South Side from the 1840s-1930s. With introduction by Richard Wright. 8.5" x 6." The term "Black.....
Porgy: A Play in Four Acts. Dorothy and DuBose Heyward. Doubleday, Page and Company: New York, 1927. First edition of first theatrical version based on the novel of Dubose Heyward. 203 pages. Measures 5 x 7.5 inches. Front and back boards with original orange wrappers, The Theatre Guild Library insignia.....
Tintype Photograph showing African American family portrait. 19th century. Measures 2.5 x 3.5". Image shows African American man in three-piece suit, a bowler hat resting on his lap. Two women stand behind him in Victorian dresses, one resting her hand on his shoulder as she gazes off camera. A n......
Archive of 10 silver gelatin press photos of Texas ranchers and ranch animals. 1935-1978. Photos measure between 9 x 7 and 8 x 10 inches. Images show ranchers herding cattle, cows roaming the expansive Texas landscape, and bison mingling with cattle behind fence posts, a llama replacing the cattle in.....
Albumen photo of integrated boy's baseball team, includes African American players. 1910s. Measures 10 x 8 inches. Mounted on photographer's board with double-paned cover. Image shows team of adolescent boys in baseball uniforms with their coach standing alongside them. 16 of the boys are white and 1 is African American.....
Second Giant March Up Market Street. San Francisco, CA, 1964. Broadside measuring 7 x 10 1/4 in. Printed by the Church Labor Conference, this broadside flyer circulated around San Francisco in advance of the July 12, 1964 Human Rights March. This protest was 35,000 strong and occurred one day before.....
19 cent Albumen Photograph of African American men working in a rock quarry or mine. Size 8 x 6 in. silver gelatin photograph on cardstock mount . A large group of mostly African American male subjects stand among rocks in what appears to be a quarry or mining site, with.....
The Black Panther. Vol. V, No. 24. San Francisco, 14 December 1970. Between the years of 1968-1972, this Black Panther-affiliated publication sold a hundred thousand copies a week, making it the most widely circulated Black newspaper. 20 pages. 18" x 11.5." This issue includes an op-ed on New York City.....
Archive of 6 illustrated Newspapers related to the Dreyfus Affair. September 1896-October 1899. French and Italian. Measure 18 x 12.5 inches. 46 pages. First in archive from Le Petit Journal dated September 1896 cover image shows Dreyfus sitting at an outdoor table, a book open next to him, his head.....
[LGBTQ] JORGENSEN, Christine. Movie Poster on the the first trans woman to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery, who became an advocate for the trans community and an icon of the 1960s sexual revolution. One large poster for the film (41" x 27"). Poster.....
Photo album showing subjects on water and land mainly in tropical location, possibly Panama. Early 1900s. Black leather album measuring 10 x 7 inches with photos mounted to black pages. 86 pages. This album centers around a crew of seafaring American men on a small yacht in what appears to.....
Tintype Photograph of a beautifully dressed African American woman. 19th century. Measures 2.5 x 3.5". This Image shows an African American woman in white Victorian style dress and hat, hands clasped before her on the heart-shaped ledge of a huppah fashioned from branches as part of the studio set. A......
19th century tintype photograph of two African American women wearing Victorian-era formal dresses and wide-brimmed hats. The emancipation of slaves and the 13th amendment in 1865 coincided with tintypes enjoying their most popular usage. This image portrays the recently found freedom of African Americans, and some of the subjects of.....
Extensive archive of 98 photos both in color and black and white of Black life in America. C. 1950s-80s. Photos show ordinary African Americans living out the material of their daily lives individually and in community. Measurements range from 2" x 2" to 5" x 4" in. One image shows.....
Tintype photograph of a well dressed African American woman. 19th century. Measures 2.5 x 3.5". The woman wears a full white dress in Victorian style with white hat perched across her coifed hair, hands clasped on her lap, just visible above the folds of her skirt . Tintypes, original photographic.....
A photo archive of mugshots of African American men, some identified.Philadelphia, PA, ca 1950s-1960s. The archive consist of 16 images in 8 silver gelatin photographs. Each show front and profile views of one of the 8 male subjects, most of them young. Each 4.5" x 3.5". Five of the mugshots.....