1990–91 Issue of the Big Black Book, “Metro New York’s Networking Directory of African-American Businesses, Professionals and Organizations”
by [African-Americana – New York City – Black Capitalism] Morris, Celeste; et al.
New York City: Unlimited Creative Enterprises Inc, 1990. 136pp booklet measuring 7 x 10 ½ inches. Jacket quite worn, inside toned with some wear, else excellent. Overall good plus.. A directory of Black-owned businesses in New York City, published with an eye to improving the economic standing of Black people in the city—in the words of the publication’s owner, Celeste Morris, to “commit[...] to Black economic power building.” This edition of the directory, which contains “Black Facts” about... Read More
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THE CASE OF DRED SCOTT IN THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. THE FULL OPINIONS OF CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY AND JUSTICE CURTIS, AND ABSTRACTS OF THE OPINIONS OF THE OTHER JUDGES; WITH AN ANALYSIS OF THE POINTS RULED, AND SOME CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS
by [African-Americana – Legal History – Dred Scott Case] Taney, Chief Justice Roger; et al.
New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1857. Original unbound copy in stitches as issued. Near Fine with minimal wear and toning to rear leaf.. The first edition of the summary of the landmark case, which includes Justice Taney’s assertion that people of African descent “are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to... Read More
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Needed (Public Citizen #1-President of the United States in Exile-Inaugurated 3-4-69)
by [African-Americana - Politics] Gregory, Dick
NP, 1969. Single sheet, 22 ½ by 17 ½ inches. Fine condition. A poster advertising the presidential campaign of Dick Gregory, who ran for office in 1968, garnering 45,000 votes. The poster parodies the trope of the “Wanted” poster. Gregory declared during his campaign that the United States was “worth saving.” A particularly fine copy of this iconic poster with no notable flaws.
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Photographic Archive of an African-American State Employee in Ohio, Spanning Over Seventy Years, With Much From the Civil Rights Era
by [African-Americana – Civil Rights Era – Desegregation] Johnson, Dorothy
Ohio, 2008. Approximately 426 pieces: 414 photographs and twelve pieces of printed ephemera. Of the photographs, seventy-seven are 8 x 10 inches and smaller; forty-seven 5 x 10 inches and smaller; ninety-nine 4 x 6 inches and smaller; forty-nine 3.5 x 6 inches and smaller; 112 3.5 x 4.5 inches and smaller, and thirty 2.5 x 4.5 inches and smaller. Fifty-six photographs are dated, between 1935 and 1999; eighteen of these (nearly one-third) date to 1964. Overall near fine.... Read More
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Advertisement for the “World Business Directory of Negroes”, Published by the Lost Art Society, 1932
by [African-Americana – Black Capitalism] Evans, Earnest William
Vincennes, Indiana: Lost Art Society, 1932. Stapled booklet of four double-sided pages, measuring 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Near fine.. A booklet advertising a forthcoming “World Business Directory of Negroes”, which was to be put out by the “Lost Art Society”. This was the project of Earnest William Evans (1879–1948); his obituary states that he was born in Sweetwater, Tennessee, and was a master plumber.[1] The booklet is not itself a directory but rather gives a rationale... Read More
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Photographs of Eddie “Saxman” Synigal’s US Navy Tour of Asia, Showing Equator Crossing Ceremonies, Musical Performances and Other Aspects of Naval Life Abroad
by [African-Americana – US Navy – Cold War] Synigal, Edgar
Mainly Asia and Oceania, 1950. Photo album measuring 10 ½ x 14 ½ inches containing approximately 160 photographs; photos are mainly 4 x 5 inches and smaller, with several 8 x 10 inch photos. Album covers completely detached, pages with damage to edges, fair; many photographs stapled in, some with damage, very good minus. Overall very good minus.. A photo album likely belonging to Edgar “Saxman” Synigal, Jr. (1937–2017). Synigal’s draft registration lists his occupation as “delivery boy”... Read More
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The Black Panther Manifesto / If the Fascists Attempt to Murder Chairman Bobby
by [African-Americana - Black Panther Party - New Haven Chapter] Douglas, Emory
New Haven: Black Panther Party, 1970. Double sided broadside on newsprint measuring 17 ½ x 11 inches, with horizontal fold. Small closed tears and foxing to margin, light tanning, very good overall. Very Good. An uncommon Black Panther imprint printed during the 1970 New Haven trials surrounding the death of Alex Rackley. The front shows Eldridge Cleaver’s Black Panther Manifesto surrounded by photographs, the other shows Emory Douglas’s classic image of Bobby Seale in an electric chair with... Read More
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Four Views of New Orleans and the Surrounding Countryside, Including African-American Subjects
by [African-Americana - Early Photography - New Orleans] Mugnier, George
New Orleans and Environs, 1880. Includes the following images: Picking Cotton. 7 x 4 in. on cardstock mount (sunned at lower edge). Outdoor view showing many African Americans harvesting cotton. -- Outdoor view of 2 paddlewheel steamships with a crowded dock. 7 1/4 x 4 in. unmounted albumen. -- Cotton Steamer on the Mississippi. 7 x 4 in. on partially-tripped cardstock mount. -- New Orleans. Cotton Wharfs. On paper mount (small tear at mount edge. -- Together, 4 photographs,... Read More
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Collection of Material Relating to African-American Sociologist George E. Haynes, Including Correspondence and Photographs
by [African-Americana – Activism – Higher Education] Haynes, George Edmund; Moton, Robert Russa; Hoover, Herbert; Caliver, Ambrose; Du Bois, W.E.B, et al.
United States, 1964. Twenty-seven letters, two typed documents (totaling four pages), six photographs, and nine pieces of ephemera including two of Haynes’ heavily stamped passports. One of the typed documents and two of the letters belong to Olyve Jeter, Haynes’ second wife. Many items affixed to loose scrapbook leaves. Near Fine.. George Edmund Haynes (1800–1960) was an African American sociologist and social worker. He received a B.A. from Nashville HBCU Fiske University, an M.A. from Yale, and was... Read More
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Photographic Postcard of Josephine Baker, with Contemporary Letter on the Verso Referring to Her
by [African-Americana – Dance – France] Manuel, Henri
Paris, 1930. RPPC measuring 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches. Fine condition.. A photographic portrait of Josephine Baker taken by Henri Manuel and published by AN Paris as number 66 in a series (other examples in this series are taken by other photographers). The verso is full of a letter in French written to a Yvonne, which reads, in part, “…do not show him this card: he would be scandalized, and the sight of Josephine Baker would immediately... Read More
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Photograph of African-American Staff at Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina, c. 1910-1920
by [African-Americana - Business - North Carolina] Pelton, Herbert W.
Asheville, 1920. Silver gelatin print measuring 8 x 10 inches. Some stains and wear, information on verso, good condition. Good. A photograph of the staff at Asheville’s historic Grove Park Inn, taken c. 1910-1920 by the photographer Herbert W. Pelton, who operated a studio in Asheville and took many pictures around the region. Among the staff pictured is William Prince Brooks, who was active in the AME Zion church and who served as head waiter at the inn.... Read More
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Sixteen Photographs of African Americans in Kansas, Missouri, and Indian Territory, 1890–1930s
by [African-Americana – Midwest] Macurdy, Hoit, Dunham, Brigham, and Other Studios
Indian Territory, Missouri, and Kansas: Macurdy, Hoit, Dunham, Brigham, and other studios, 1930. Fourteen cabinet cards of various sizes, measuring 7 x 8 ½ inches and smaller, and two real photo postcards. Photos with wear; generally excellent. Cards with significant wear and some missing corners; very good minus. Overall very good.. Sixteen photographs of African American men and women, possibly a family. Most are formal portraits taken in photography studios, though one shows a group of men at... Read More
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Eight Unpublished Slides of John Elray Sanford aka Redd Foxx, Taken for a Jet Magazine Shoot, 1976
by [African-American Performance] Sutton, Isaac
Los Angeles, 1976. Eight kodachrome slides showing Foxx, with one possibly related slide of a woman included as well. Unpublished, originally taken for the May 6, 1976 issue of Jet Magazine (Vol. 50 No. 7), which is also included here. Fine condition, magazine nearly fine with slightest tanning. Fine. Redd Foxx left NBC in 1976 after a successful run of six seasons of Sanford and Sun, and went to ABC, producing a short-lived show called The Redd Foxx... Read More
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Castles in Europe. The Innovation Trot
by [African-Americana – Music – Dance – Ragtime / Tango Craze] Europe, James Reese
New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co, 1914. Folio sheet music, illustrated color pictorial cover. 5 pp. (including cover). Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Light edge wear and minor surface creasing; very good overall with strong color to the cover.. A dance-era publication composed by James Reese Europe (1881–1919) and introduced by the celebrated ballroom team Vernon and Irene Castle during the height of the early twentieth-century social dance craze. The cover features a photographic image... Read More
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Congratulations Valse
by [African-Americana – Music – Dance – Ragtime / Tango Craze] Europe, James Reese
New York: G. Ricordi & Co, 1915. Folio sheet music, 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches, illustrated pictorial cover. 5 pp. (including cover). Signature on cover, some tearing to wraps at seam, good.. A dance-era waltz by the influential African American bandleader and composer James Reese Europe (1881–1919), issued during the height of the early twentieth-century ballroom dance revival associated with the celebrated dance team Vernon and Irene Castle, and recorded by the Castles as “Castles Lame Duck... Read More
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Castle Innovation Tango
by [African-Americana – Music – Dance – Ragtime / Tango Craze] Europe, James Reese; Dabney, Ford T.
New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co, 1914. Folio sheet music, illustrated color pictorial cover. 5 pp. (including cover), 10 ½ x 13 ½ inches. Typical light edge wear; bright example with strong color. Excellent.. A classic dance-era publication composed by James Reese Europe (1881–1919) in collaboration with Ford T. Dabney (1883–1958), written for the celebrated ballroom team of Vernon and Irene Castle at the height of America’s tango craze. Europe, already emerging as one of the most... Read More
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In the Evening by the Moonlight [Great Ethiopian Songs Series]
by [African-Americana - Music - Minstrelsy] Bland, James Alan
New York: Benjamin W. Hitchcock, 1880. Sheet music measuring 11 x 14 inches. 6 pp. With illustrated folio cover with Bland’s likeness and a stereotypical illustration of African-Americans at church. Fine condition. A scarce and possibly a first printing of James A. Bland’s “In the Evening by the Moonlight,” published as part of the Great Ethiopian Songs series by Hitchcock’s Music Store on Sixth Avenue in New York City. H.J. Weyman and the Popular Music Company also published editions... Read More
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Three 1865 Documents Certifying the Death of Private William Cottman of the 9th U.S. Colored Troops
by [African-Americana – Civil War – Maryland] Carter, John M.; Sears, John L.; Cottman, Susan; et al.
Annapolis, Baltimore, and Somerset County, Maryland, 1865. Three documents. Two folded with normal wear, else Near Fine; one very delicate, torn into two pieces (formerly mended with archival tape), with some damage intersecting with text, good. Overall very good.. Three documents certifying the death of William Cottman, a private with the 9th Regiment of the US Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War. The 9th was organized at Camp Stanton in Benedict, Maryland, in November of 1863, shortly... Read More
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Last Dream Waltzes
by [African-Americana – Music] Boone, John William “Blind”
Columbia, Missouri: W.B. Alen, 1909. Folio, 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches, 9 pp. Very good plus with period ownership mark from Iowa, light normal wear.. In 1909, Blind Boone (John William Boone) was an established touring pianist and composer whose concert career had already spanned more than two decades. Blind since infancy, he had trained at the Missouri School for the Blind in St. Louis and by this period, with the help of his manager John Lange... Read More
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Musical Bouquet. No. 276. Donna Maria Martinez Morena – Rosa Lee; & Sing Darkies Sing (Solos & Choruses) as Sung by the Ethiopian Serenaders
by [African-Americana – Music – Early Black Classical Performers / Minstrelsy] Blewitt, Jonathan; Glover, Stephen; Morena, Donna Maria Martinez
London: Musical Bouquet Office, 192 High Holborn; J. Allen, 20 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, 1850. Folio sheet music, 4 pp, 9 ½ x 13 ¼ inches. Lithographed title with portrait illustration. Minor edge wear and light toning; very good.. An early printed musical tribute to the Afro-Cuban singer Donna Maria Martinez Morena, one of the earliest Black vocalists to achieve international recognition on the European stage. Morena was born in Havana to free Black parents and recognized early... Read More
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Three Pieces of Illustrated Sheet Music Showing Josephine Baker in Paris: J’ai deux Amours; Sur Deux Notes; Revoir Paris
by [African-Americana – Dance / Music] Baker, Josephine; Lara, Agustín; Misraki, Paul; Scotto, Vincent, et al.
Various publishers, 1949. Three titles as follows: J’ai deux Amours. Fox-trot chanté par Josephine Baker. Paris: Éditions Salabert, 1930. 4 pp. Fine condition;. Near fine condition.. A tight, visually appealing trio of illustrated Parisian sheet music issues tracing Josephine Baker’s arc from Jazz Age sensation to postwar cultural legend. J’ai deux Amours—arguably her defining anthem—captures the carefully crafted dual identity that propelled Baker’s rise: African American expatriate turned Parisian icon, marketed simultaneously as modernist spectacle and cosmopolitan muse.... Read More
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36 Photos Miniatures de Josephine Baker. La Grande Vedelle Internationale
by [African-Americana – Performance] Baker, Josephine; Hoyningen-Huene, George; Manuel, Henri; Walery (Stanislaw Julian Ignacy, Count Ostrorog), et al.
Paris, 1930. Set of 36 miniature photographs in a heavy cardstock folded cover, bearing advertisements for Casino de Paris, Columbia Records, and Bakerfix. Photographs are fine, some very light wear to cover, near fine condition overall and remarkably well preserved.. Issued at the height of Josephine Baker’s international celebrity and likely produced in connection with the Casino de Paris revue Paris qui Remue (c. 1930), this souvenir set of photographs gathers thirty-six miniature photographic portraits presenting the performer... Read More
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Casino de Paris. “Paris Qui Remue” Hyper Revue / A Super Spectacle / avec / Josephine Baker
by [African-Americana – Performance] Baker, Josephine
Paris, 1930. Double sided sheet measuring 5 ½ x 8 ¾ inches, folded into four panels, all illustrated. Fine condition.. An apparently unrecorded program documenting one of Baker’s defining early Paris triumphs, the lavish Paris Qui Remue revue at the Casino de Paris, a venue synonymous with large-scale spectacle during the interwar years. Following her breakout success in La Revue Nègre (1925) and rapid ascent within Parisian nightlife, Baker became a central figure in revues that blended American... Read More
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The Tar-Heel Blues. Fox Trot
by [African-Americana – Music – Ragtime / Dance] Brymn, J. Tim (James T. Brymn)
New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co, 1915. Folio sheet music, illustrated color pictorial cover featuring a photographic image of society dancers Maurice and Florence Walton. 5 pp. (including cover). Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Light handling wear; excellent condition overall.. A striking ragtime-era dance publication for “The Tar-Heel Blues,” composed by the African American bandleader and composer J. Tim Brymn (James T. Brymn, 1881–1946). The cover features a posed studio photograph of the well-known ballroom dancers... Read More
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Group of Three Programs, One Signed, for Productions of Katherine Dunham and Her Company, 1940s–1950s
by [African-Americana – Dance] Dunham, Katherine
New York and Washington: Various publishers, 1955. Generally very good.. A group of illustrated programs documenting mid-century performances of the dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist Katherine Dunham (1909–2006), one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American dance. Trained in anthropology at the University of Chicago, Dunham conducted field research in Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, and Trinidad during the 1930s, developing a distinctive choreographic style that blended Caribbean dance traditions with modern theatrical performance. Her company, founded in Chicago in... Read More
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