![Echo [Vol. 25, No. 38 (Fall 1980)]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/065/642/1630642065.0.l.jpg)
Echo [Vol. 25, No. 38 (Fall 1980)]
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Virginia W. Williams, 1980. Very good +. 11” x 8½”. Stapled wrappers. Pp. 36. Very good plus: the slightest toning and foxing to edges of wrappers; internally fresh. This “Patriotic Issue” of Echo mainly concerned the Black vote and ran key information on local, state and national politicians up for election in 1980. It also held lyrics and sheet music of patriotic songs, a feature on “When Blacks Were Republicans” and one on the... Read More
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![US Magazine. Volume I Number I. [February 1954]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/939/496/1592496939.0.l.jpg)
US Magazine. Volume I Number I. [February 1954]
Memphis, Tennessee: US, Incorporated, 1954. 12" x 9". Stapled wrappers. Pp. 32. Very good plus with minimal wear and light toning. This is the first, and only, issue of US Magazine, published by a group of noteworthy African Americans in Memphis, Tennessee. It's filled with well-written articles, features and over 80 images covering important African American individuals and accomplishments in the 1950s. As this was its inaugural issue, the editors dedicated an entire page to sharing the... Read More
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![[Robb, Frederic H. Hammurabi]. The Chicago History Roundup](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/075/121/1582121075.0.l.jpg)
[Robb, Frederic H. Hammurabi]. The Chicago History Roundup
Chicago: The House of Knowledge, 1974. Very good. 11” x 14”. Stapled self-wrappers. pp. [32]. Very good due to staining of wrappers at edges and and old price in ballpoint on front cover; internally near fine. This is a Black history calendar published by The House of Knowledge which was created by F.H.Hammurabi Robb, an African American attorney who toured the country (and ultimately the world) speaking on Black history. He also wrote and published on the... Read More
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![[Photo Album of Hand-Colored Landscape Photos with Many in National Parks and Forests.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/053/966/1656966053.0.l.jpg)
[Photo Album of Hand-Colored Landscape Photos with Many in National Parks and Forests.]
Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, 1927. Very good. 10” x 12¾”. String tied, full leather over flexible card. 70 pages with 126 hand-colored photos mostly glued down. Most photos measure from 2 ¼” x 2 ¼” to 5 ¼” x 3 ¼” with 14 measuring 5” x 7” or larger; most are captioned. Album very good with moderate wear; contents generally near fine or better. This is an album of lovely handcolored photos which document National Parks... Read More
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![[Fantastic Photos of New Mexico]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/765/170/1734170765.0.l.jpg)
[Fantastic Photos of New Mexico]
New Mexico, 1930. Very good +. 12” x 9”. Gathering of 14 construction paper pages side-stapled with 30 B&W photographs corner-mounted. Most photos 2½” x 4¼”, two slightly smaller, typed captions adhered to every page. Gathering good: seemingly removed from a larger book; one leaf detached, remainder partially so. Photos very good plus or better. This is a brief but wonderful collection of photographs showing what appears to be a tour through the southwest on a... Read More
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Gay Forum. Vol. 1 No. 3. December 1-15, 1971
Washington DC: Guild Press, LTD, 1971. Near fine. 17½" x 11¼". Bifolia printed on regular paper stock. pp. 24. Near fine: folded horizontally at center as issued, fresh with minimal wear. This is an issue of a short run gay periodical that signaled the downfall of a gay publishing empire. Its publisher, the Guild Press, was founded by H. Lynn Womack, who had turned a small printing plant purchased in 1957 into a major operation which... Read More
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![Defending America [First Leaf Title for a High School Yearbook with Original Photographs Mounted In].; Education](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/055/966/1656966055.0.l.jpg)
Defending America [First Leaf Title for a High School Yearbook with Original Photographs Mounted In].; Education
North Powder, Oregon: North Powder High School, 1942. Good. 10½” x 8”. Two-hole punched leaves, plastic brad-bound within thin orange folder. Pp. [48]. Good: front cover and first page(s) lacking; rear cover detached but present; offsetting and edge wear to first present page with a small patch worn away; several photographs loose or detached but present in original locations; a bit spotted throughout. This is a rare yearbook for a small high school in Oregon, issued... Read More
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Gay Pride Week 79 Calendar of Events
Dallas, Texas: Dignity/Outreach Dallas and Concerned Americans for the Preservation of Human Rights, 1979. Very good. 11" x 8½". Single sheet flyer, printed both sides. Very good: creased at old center fold; a few other faint creases; lightly toned with a bit of spotting. This is a double-sided flyer announcing the many and varied events scheduled for Gay Pride Week 1979 in Dallas, Texas. Though not explicitly stated, the calendar came from the collection of longtime... Read More
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Disneyland 1961 Original 35mm Slide Images Photos Photographs (Lot 3)
1961. Fine. This listing is for a group of original 35mm slides which are in red letter Kodachrome Transparency mounts date stamped July 1961 and in fine condition. This group includes an image the Tomorrowland Rocket, the Indian Village at Yesterland, a dining area, the Main Street Depot area, and the monorail with the Matterhorn in the background.
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![[Photographs of an Annual Texas Beauty Pageant]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/743/681/1740681743.0.l.jpg)
[Photographs of an Annual Texas Beauty Pageant]
Corpus Christi, Texas: Blackwell Photography, 1968. Very good. 36 8" x 10" B&W photographs, including 9 duplicates. Very good or better: a few slightly wavy with mild corner wear. This is a great group of photos revealing the 1968 "New Year's Day Swim and Beauty Pageant," an event held in Corpus Christi, Texas, for over 20 years. Articles in local papers told us all about the day: "Approximately 400 persons braved goosebump weather yesterday... Read More
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![The California Institution for Men [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/755/681/1740681755.0.l.jpg)
The California Institution for Men [Cover title]
Chino, California: [The Institution], 1949. Very good. 5½" x 4¼". Stapled pictorial wrappers. Pp. [9]. Very good: a few small spots, mostly clear of content; very faintly creased. This is an unrecorded, photographically illustrated brochure promoting future employment for the inmates of a pioneering experiment in humane penal rehabilitation, the California Institution for Men (CIM). When CIM was built in Chino in 1941, California was considered to have one of the most oppressive penal... Read More
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Early Photograph of the Woodson Hotel
[Yates Center, Kansas], 1890. Black and white photograph measuring 7½" x 9½" on card mount measuring 10 7/8" x 13 ¾". Photo very good plus with several light soil spots; mount very good with heavy corner wear. A crisp image of the Woodson Hotel in Yates Center, Kansas, probably taken before the turn of the century. The photo shows a number of men, probably laborers and their bosses, during a break in the digging of a ditch... Read More
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![The Ebony Story. Ten Years That Rocked the World. [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/758/727/1362727758.0.l.jpg)
The Ebony Story. Ten Years That Rocked the World. [Cover title]
[Chicago, Illinois]: [Johnson Publications], 1955. 11” x 8 ½”. Stapled self wrappers. pp. [16]. Near fine with minimal wear. This is a separately issued special edition of Ebony, marking its 10th anniversary. It's smaller in dimension, page length (the newsstand November 1955 issue had over 170 pages) and is printed entirely in black and white. It also contains no advertising save for encouragement to subscribe to Ebony and Jet. The first page has a “Message... Read More
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![El Pueblo [Broken run of 16 issues]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/064/966/1656966064.0.l.jpg)
El Pueblo [Broken run of 16 issues]
San Antonio, Texas: El Pueblo, 1982. Very good. 17” x 11½”. Newsprint. Pp. 8 [earlier issues printed in dos-à-dos format: pp. 4 English, 4 Spanish each]. Publication sequence: Vol. I, Nos. 5 (Jul 1979), 7-12 (Oct 1979 – Apr 1980); Vol. II, Nos. 3-6 (Sep 1980 – Mar/Apr 1981), [Special Cinco de Mayo issue] (1981), 7 (Aug 1981), 9-11 (Mar/Apr – Aug/Sep 1982). Generally very good or better: folded horizontally at center, likely as issued; a few with... Read More
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NGTF: National Gay Task Force Wants You to Join America's Largest Gay Civil Rights Organization
New York: [National Gay Task Force], 1980. Near fine. 8½" x 3¾". Single leaf, tri-fold brochure, unfolding to 11" x 8½". Near fine. The National Gay Task Force ("NGTF") was formed in 1973 by several gay rights activists including Barbara Gittings and Bruce Voeller. The NGTF sought to enact change at the national level and had several early successes including: removal of homosexuality from the Index of Mental Disorders, introduction of a gay civil rights bill banning... Read More
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![[Collection of Clipped Katy Keene Comic Book Art]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/506/118/1716118506.0.l.jpg)
[Collection of Clipped Katy Keene Comic Book Art]
N.P., 1960. Very good. One commercial scrapbook, brown cloth over boards, measuring 12½” x 11¼”, and over 100 loose leaves with a total of 274 pages and 434 pieces of comic book clippings pasted down and 15 pieces of original art laid in. Generally very good or better. This is a monumental collection of clipped strips, scenes and characters from the popular Katy Keene comic, complete with several pieces of original fan art. The... Read More
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Photo Album Documenting Power House Candy Bar Window Paintings and Other Marketing Efforts
Mostly Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1940. Good. 7¼" x 11". Riveted faux leather over flexible card. 20 leaves with 64 black and white photographs. Around half are inserted in corner mounts, the other half adhered (all but one rectos only), and nine are laid in. Photos measure from 2¾" x 3¾" to 3 1/8" x 4¾". Album good with heavy wear loss of some surface covering as well as complete separation of the covering of the front... Read More
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South Florida its Builders, its Resources, its Industries and Climatic Advantages
Tampa, Florida: The Tampa Daily Times, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 11 5/8" x 8 1/2". String tied faux black leater over thick boards, titles stamped in black, Seal of the State of Florida in gold on front cover. 201 pages. A fantastic marketing piece for South Florida, meant to be distributed throughout the country to entice business and families to emigrate. The book had three stated goals: to prove to grain and stock... Read More
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![[Book of Photographs and Identifications of Knots].; Textiles](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/026/966/1656966026.0.l.jpg)
[Book of Photographs and Identifications of Knots].; Textiles
N,P, 1940. Very good. 9 7/8” x 6 7/8”. String-tied portfolio, thin card wrappers with 7 linen-backed B&W photographs measuring 9 3/8” x 6” and 7 thin leaves of typescript captions, rectos only. Pp. [14] + two duplicate photos laid in. Very good: wrappers chipped in a few spots with two small tears; edgewear to blank endpaper leaves; first photo a bit scuffed; light spotting to versos. This is an unusual survival, a handmade identification book... Read More
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![[Record Book and Laid-In Items on the Establishment of a Baptist Conference]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/066/966/1656966066.0.l.jpg)
[Record Book and Laid-In Items on the Establishment of a Baptist Conference]
Pennsylvania, 1862. Very good. 7¾” x 6¼”. Blue paper-covered boards. 57 handwritten pages (about 8,500 words) + 12 items laid in and 87 blank pp. at rear. Very good: boards and pastedowns moderately soiled. Laid-in items creased at old folds, lightly dust-soiled and worn. This is a handwritten record book, rich with membership lists, meeting notes and laid-in materials that reveal the efforts of Baptist churches in rural Pennsylvania uniting to form a “Confrens” [sic]. ... Read More
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![[Archive Related to the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/723/866/1759866723.0.l.jpg)
[Archive Related to the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.]
Various places, 1985. Very good. 17¾" x 15½". Three large steel spiral binders, full leather over flexible card + 70 loose oversized contact sheets of photographs. Binders contain a total of 98 mylar sleeved leaves which hold hundreds of news and magazine clippings; images on contact sheets measure 2" x 3" and there are a total of 2,100. Binders very good with light wear; contents and photos generally very good plus or better. This is a... Read More
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Richard Nixon Signed Autographed Program World Hunger
New York, 1967. Very good. This is a program for a dinner meeting of The National Industrial Conference Board held in New York on September 12, 1967, where Richard Nixon delivered a speech on world hunger. The booklet details the agenda day by day listing the speakers, and Nixon signed his autograph on the page where his name appeared. The ink is a bit faded and is much bluer to the naked eye than the photo here. The... Read More
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![[Cabinet Card and Business Card of P.G. Lowery]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/335/921/1690921335.0.l.jpg)
[Cabinet Card and Business Card of P.G. Lowery]
Chicago: J.B. Wilson, 1890. Good +. Cabinet card measures 6¼” x 4¼”; business card is 1¾” x 3¼”. Cabinet card good plus due to moderate edge wear and some surface loss; business card good with uneven horizontal crease. This is an exceptionally rare cabinet photograph along with a photographically illustrated business card of P.G. Lowery, the important musician and band leader. Betsy Golden Kellem's 2020 profile of Lowery (https://drinkswithdeadpeople.com/2020/01/p-g-lowery/) tells us that he was born in... Read More
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![[Membership and Finance Records of the Mt. Gilleon Baptist Church]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/043/642/1630642043.0.l.jpg)
[Membership and Finance Records of the Mt. Gilleon Baptist Church]
Tipton, Tennessee, 1942. Good. 12” x 8”. Quarter leather over buckram, ledger book. 195 handwritten pages + one piece of ephemera laid in. Book good: heavily worn with some losses of leather and buckram; internally very good. This is a book of records for an African American church in Tennessee: Mt. Gilleon Baptist Church, which was located in Tipton. We have been unable to locate any secondary sources related to the church, making the membership rolls... Read More
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Booker T. Washington Business College Catalogue 1949-1952
Birmingham, Alabama: [The College], 1948. Very good. 11” x 8½”. Stapled illustrated thin card wrappers. Pp. [28]. Very good: wrappers lightly scuffed and worn; a touch of light creasing; evenly toned. This is an unrecorded, illustrated catalog for a Black business college founded by an immensely successful African American businessman and his wife (and run by a majority of women), the Booker T. Washington Business College of Birmingham, Alabama (BTWBC). Arthur George Gaston completed... Read More
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