Archive of 8 certificates belonging and awarded to Helen Keller for her service including one certificate awarded to her teacher and lifelong companion, Anne Sullivan. The dates of the documents are 1936 to 1948. After illness in early childhood left her blind and deaf, Keller spent her adult life as.....
Intimate correspondence of 26 letters totaling 78 handwritten pages spanning 3 years from 1935-38. The letters, written in English, are between Ruth E. Bergevin and Avarani, shortened to "Rani." Bergevin was a teacher at a Presbyterian mission school for girls in Dehra Dun, India, and Rani a teacher training in.....
Phillis Wheatley. The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature For the Year 1772. Sixth edition. J. Dodsley: London, 1800. Rebound in black boards with gold gilt text on spine. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. 255 pages. An anthology of major works from the year 1772.....
[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.....
Joseph B. Foraker. The Black Battalion. Washington: 1909. First edition. Original paper wrappers. 6 x 9 inches. 54 pages. Stapled pamphlet. A speech by Senator Foraker of Ohio in defense of the Brownsville black troops who were dishonorably discharged without pensions because white townspeople accused them of local crimes despite.....
Archive of 8 silver gelatin press photos showing migrant workers in America. 1950-1967. Photos measure roughly 8 x 10 inches. Images show men, women and children, at home in small, one-room shanties and at work in fields. Most of the workers shown are Latino. In one image taken in 1950.....
Large panoramic framed photograph of the Cattto Elks Home in Philadelphia, an African American fraternal order. 1930. Measures 20 x 10 inches. Image shows long banquet tables lined with men and women in formal wear, the ceiling draped in streamers, the tables set with silver and china plates heaped with.....
Action for Today newsletter. Civil Rights Congress of New York: 1947. Mimeographed newsletter measures 14 x 8.5 inches. 2 pages. Newsletter regarding the anti-lynching bill before Congress reads in part, "Despite political promises of 1946 elections, neither the Republican leadership nor the administration have found it 'politically expedient' to do.....
Very Large albumen photo of college graduates in California including one Asian male . circa 1880s. This very large photo Measures 22 x 17 inches. Mounted to photographer's board from Elite studio San Francisco marked letters in gold at bottom of board. Ten graduates pose with rolled diplomas in hand.....
[BLACK PANTHERS]. I Am Somebody. poster by artist BRUCE, Herb, Chicago: Gráfica Studios, Charisma Chain Inc., 1970. 24 x 36 in. Original poster. Right side of poster features the famous poem, "I Am Somebody," written in the 1950s by Reverend William Holmes Borders, Sr. (1905-1993), Senior Pastor at Wheat Street.....
Large archive of 6 handwritten notebooks totaling 337 pages in pen and pencil written by Bessie May Rhoades who was an orphan at the Bethany Orphanage in Womeldorf, Pennsylvania, 1903. During the early 1900s, orphans were often children of neglect and poverty, some who sought out orphanages because the living.....
[Lynching] Mary Church Terrell. "Lynching From a Negro's Point of View." The North American Review. June, 1904. Terracotta soft cover lists titles including Terrel's essay "Lynching from a Negro's Point of View." 960 pages. Mary Church Terrell was the first African American woman to earn a college degree and advocated.....
Original silver gelatin photo of integrated men's baseball team. Late 1800s. Measures 4.5 x 3.5 inches. Image shows 10 men in baseball uniforms from the late 1800s, one in a white shirt, tie and pants, presumably the coach. 8 of the men are white and 2 African American. Their bats.....
Signed Spanish colonial free slave work contract. "Contrato Esclavo liberto." Arecibo, Puerto Rico. April 1873. Measures 12 x 8 inches. The 1873 Abolition Act ending slavery in Puerto Rico stipulated slaves apprentice under their former masters for another 3 years in exchange for food and small compensation. "In the very.....
Life in Africa Archive Lot of 49 glass lantern slides showing life in early 20th century Africa. Probably Kenya. Trees and landscape are consistent with Keny circa 1910s-20s. Slides measure 3.25 x 3.25 inches. These glass slides were used in the magic lantern, an early prototype of the modern slide.....
Archive of 7 silver gelatin photographs depicting urban homelessness in the 1930s-60s in America. Black and white silver gelatin Press photos. Photos measure between 4.25" x 5.75" to 7.25" x 9" inches. This photographic archive of urban homelessness around the middle of the 20th century depicts scenes from the margins.....
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.....
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.....
John Ball. In the Heat of the Night. First edition. Harper and Row: New York. 1965. Original purple dust jacket design by Luiz Woods. 184 pages. Measures 8.25" x 6" inches. The story follows Virgil Tibbs, a Black police detective solving a murder case in notoriously racist small town South.....
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.....
[Transgender] Promotional poster for The Bostonian magazine advertising the play The Coming Woman, 1877. Measures 16.5" x 12" inches. A large square of bright red covered in white text reads "A monthly magazine of local interest price 15 cts" along the top of the poster and in large, bold print.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
"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.....