Archive of 326 silver gelatin photos of a Chinese American family in various parts of Northern California dated between 1915-1926. The photos are affixed to thin tan paper album pages. Some photos are loose. Images are crisp and clear. Photos measure between 1.75" x 2" to 4" x 6" pasted.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Photo album with including ten original images from a suffrage parade held in Mount Vernon, New York in 1913. Black leather album measuring 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 190 images total measuring between 3 x 2 and 4 x 4 inches. Album appears to have been assembled by Anna Uebel based.....
[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.....
Archive of 10 illustrated Newspapers related to the Dreyfus Affair. December 1894-October 1899. French and Italian. Measure 18 x 12.5 inches. The archive includes 8 issues from French newspaper Le Petit Journal, 1 issue from French newspaper La Depeche, and 1 issue from Italian newspaper, La Tribuna Illustrata. Alfred Dreyfus.....
Archive of 91 silver gelatin photos from an African American soldier based in Japan. C. 1950s to 1960s. Photo sizes 4 x 5 to 3 x 2". Archive shows military and civilian life of the African American G.I.s on base in Japan with their fellow white soldiers, less than a......
Archive of 8 pieces of ephemera on early female impersonator, Julian Eltinge. 1910-1919. Includes 4 songbooks, a theater playbill, an original postcard, a printed cigar box label with his portrait out of drag, and an original photo signed by Julian; "Sincerely Yours, Julian Eltinge". Measures 4.5" x 4.5" to 10.5".....
[Joan Of Arc.] SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. Saint Joan Of Arc. London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1936. Signed by the author, Signed First edition, signed limited issue, signed by the author and not for sale; the signed limited issue, comprising only 120 copies in total. Sackville-West who was Virginia Woolf's lover, and the inspiration for.....
The Strange Career of the Chevalier D'Eon de Beaumont. Captain J. Buchan Telfer. Longmons, Green, and Co: London, 1885. First edition. Measures 9 x 6 inches. 363 pages. Original red cloth boards with gilted title on spine. 3 engraved portraits with tissue guards, one as frontispiece.
2 tintypes showing African American women in the years just following emancipation. Both measure 2.25 x 3.5". One image shows 2 women, richly dressed in Victorian fashion, one seated and the other standing with one hand resting on the other's shoulder, a scenic screen set up behind them as backdrop.....
JOHNSON, Edward. History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish American War and Other Items of Interest. Raleigh: Capital Printing Company, 1899. First Edition. 228 pages with a variation of black and white photographs and ink illustrations. Board covered. Measures 8.25" x 5.75". In 1898 2,500 Buffalo Soldiers joined 6,600 other.....
Archive of 4 original hand colored lithographs of Native chiefs from McKenney & Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Rice, Rutter & Co Publishers: Philadelphia, 1855. Measures 6.5 x 10.25 inches. Lithographs show images of chiefs from the Fox, Winnebago, Otto and Cherokee tribes with names and.....
Archive from The Ladder, the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States. 9 issues of The Ladder 1954-1968; measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches and averaging 26 pages each issue. The Ladder included poems, essays, short stories, editorials and news from a community of lesbians nationwide without previous access.....
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.....
Archive of 35 artistically shot, candid, street photographs of African Americans and other Chicagoans by an unknown photographer. Circa 1970s. 35 black and white silver gelatin photographic portraits. Measuring 8" x 9.75" each. Photographs printed on semi-glossy paper. This collection of photographs capture the daily life of African Americans and.....
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.....
A young African American man dressed in suit tintype portrait. 19th Century. Tintype photo with original gold foil frame. Measures 3 x 3.5". Image shows a youthful African American man dressed in a 3-piece suit with tie and resting his elbow against a velvet podium with his other hand resting.....
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.....
Large original photograph of African American barbers. C. early 1900s. Image measures 8 x 6" mounted to photographer's board measuring 10 x 12". Photo shows 5 men in white coats and bow ties standing beside velvet upholstered barber's chairs lining a long counter, ornate mirrors above each station. The men.....
Lot of 49 glass lantern slides showing life in early 20th century Africa. Probably Kenya. Trees and landscape are consistent with Kenya 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 projector, and would have.....
Tintype of African American woman wearing a beautiful pleated Victorian dress. 19th century. the woman in the picture is posed standing, this was often difficult and uncommon as tintypes typically took about 15-20 seconds for the exposure to get enough light which could often result in blurring if the subject.....