1925 Portrait of “Mike” Foon Kai-Kee of Yale, the Only Chinese Student Playing for an American College Baseball Team
by [Chinese-Americana – Baseball – Yale University] Unknown Photographer
New Haven, Connecticut, 1925. Single 8 x 10 inch photograph. Fotograms and date stamps verso with typed news caption affixed. Slightly curled with some folds at corners, editorial overpainting recto, excellent contrast; overall excellent.. A portrait of “Mike” Foon Kai-Kee (1903–deceased), a Chinese-American college baseball player at Yale University, from Dinuba, California (misspelled as “Dinerba” in the caption). The caption describes the third baseman as “the only Chinese playing on an American University baseball team [...] according to... Read More
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Three Photographs of Eugene Debs Speaking at a Railroad Depot
by [Eugene Debs – Labor History – Railroads] Unknown Photographer
Northeast US, Unknown year. Three photographs, two measuring 5 x 7 inches and one measuring 6 ½ x 8 ½ inches. All with Brown Brothers stamps verso. Portrait marked verso “Eugene V. Debs” with editorial overpainting recto. One other photograph marked verso “Debs speaking to workers”. Excellent contrast. Overall excellent to near fine.. Eugene Debs (1855–1926) was an American Socialist, trade unionist, and five-time presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America—most famously in the 1920 election, when... Read More
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Fourteen Photos of Workers in a Shoe Factory, 1905–1910
by [Labor History – Manufacturing – Women] Unknown Photographer
United States, 1910. Fourteen photographs measuring approximately 6 ¾ x 8 ½ inch and smaller. Brown Brothers stamps and manuscript captions verso. Very good contrast; some photos with much marginal damage and chipping; overall very good.. Fourteen photographs of men and women at work in an unnamed shoe factory, dated 1905–1910. Most have captions at least naming the task that the workers are engaged in (mainly heeling), though some have more descriptive captions; one describes how the heeling... Read More
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Press Photo of MLK and Other African American Leaders at a Meeting Following the 1964 Harlem Uprising
by [African-Americana – Civil Rights Movement – New York City] Unknown Photographer
New York City, 1964. Photograph measuring 7 ½ x 10 inches. Editorial overpainting and caption recto; stamps and newspaper clipping verso. Excellent to Near Fine.. A photograph of, left to right: March on Washington organizer Bayard Rustin; NAACP Director of Counsel Jack Greenberg; Whitney Young, Jr., of the National Urban League; James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality; Roy Wilkins of the NAACP; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chairman John Lewis; and National... Read More
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Press Photo of Owen Whitfield During the 1939 Sharecroppers Protest
by [African-Americana – Labor History – New Deal Era] Unknown Photographer
Chicago, Illinois: International News Photos, 1939. Single photograph measuring 5 x 8 inches with typed caption affixed verso. Some wear; excellent.. A portrait of activist preacher Owen Whitfield (1891–1965), taken during the 1939 Missouri sharecropper protest. The caption reads in part: “Preacher Owen H. Whitfield, of La Forge, MO., negro preacher who is the leader of the sharecroppers in southeast Missouri, in their controversy with their landlord plantation owners. It is reported that more than one thousand... Read More
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Photo of Joyce Warner, Miss Black America 1971
by [African-Americana – Women – Beauty Pageants] Unknown Photographer
Tallahassee, Florida, 1971. Single photograph measuring 6 ¼ x 9 inches. Manuscript caption verso reading “Joyce Warner, Tallahassee, / Miss Black America” with newspaper article affixed and stamped “SEP231971”. Near Fine.. A press photo of Joyce Warner, who was crowned Miss Black America in 1971. The Miss Black America competition was founded in 1968 by entrepreneur J. Morris Anderson as a protest of Miss America’s whites-only policy; the first Miss Black America competition was held in Atlantic City,... Read More
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Eleven Photographs of 1950s NAACP Activities in California
by [California – African-Americana – NAACP] Unknown Photographers
Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California, and others: McLain’s Photo Service, Bona Fide Photo Service, et al., 1950. Eleven individual photographs with one duplicate, measuring 8 x 10 inches. Slightly curled with wrinkling and some folds and tears; overall very good plus.. Eleven photographs showing NAACP activities in and around Los Angeles in the early 1950s. Most are uncaptioned; the one captioned photograph shows the organizers of a 1952 NAACP rally organized in collaboration with the AFL, CIO,... Read More
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Photo Album of the 1985 Pride Parade in West Hollywood
by [California – LGBTQ History – Pride] Unknown Photographer
Los Angeles, California, 1985. 131 photos measuring 3 ½ x 5 inches with fourteen pieces of ephemera, in a photo album. Near Fine.. A photo album documenting West Hollywood’s 1985 Pride parade. Eighty-seven photos are of the parade and forty-four are of the photographer’s trip to Ventura with, presumably, her girlfriend. Marchers include feminist lawyer Gloria Allred, The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, Gay Vietnamese of Southern California, actress and HIV/AIDS advocate Judith Light, and drag queen... Read More
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Inscribed Real Photo Postcard of Japanese-American Boxer Young Togo
by [Japanese-Americana – Boxing] Young Togo; Unknown Photographer
Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1918. Real photo postcard measuring 3 ¼ x 5 ½ inches. A real photo postcard depicting Japanese-American boxer Young Togo, inscribed verso: “To K. Iwana Muskogee Oklahoma / From Young Togo fighter and jiu jitsu wrestler Muskogee Okla”. Young Togo was a lightweight and sometimes featherweight or bantamweight boxer from Fort Smith, Arkansas, who debuted around 1907. He seemed to have been a popular fighter, based on contemporaneous newspaper articles. Following a draw with Togo, “Battling” Nelson... Read More
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1950s Scrapbook of Photos of Country Musicians
by [Music History – Country Music] Unknown Photographers
United States, 1950. Eighty-four photos, including real photo postcards, mainly measuring 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. With manuscript captions under photos and many photos captioned on negative. Photos generally excellent to Near Fine; scrapbook pages delicate with some marginal damage. Excellent.. A scrapbook of photographs of better- and lesser-known country musicians, likely assembled in the 1950s. Subjects include the National Barn Dance Gang, the 101 Ranch Boys, the Carolina Sweethearts, the Bar X Cowboys, Gene Autry and... Read More
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Five 1920 Photographs of Texas Rangers, Including Frank Hamer
by [Texas Rangers – History of Policing] Unknown Photographer
El Paso, Texas: Underwood & Underwood, 1920. Five photographs measuring 7 ¼ x 9 ½ inches. Typed captions affixed and Underwood & Underwood stamps verso. One photo with large tear at corner, else excellent.. The Texas Rangers, now a statewide investigative law enforcement agency, was formed in 1823 to protect Euro-American settlers in Mexican Texas, and officially established in 1835. Throughout the 19th century, the Rangers, as an irregular military, defended Texians from attacks by Indigenous people as... Read More
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Press Photos of “The Paralyzed Industries of Japan” after the US and UK Froze Its Assets, 1941
by [World War II – Japan – Industrial History] Unknown Photographer
Japan: Brown Brothers, 1941. Five photographs. Photos measuring 6 ½ x 8 ½ inches. With typed captions previously affixed, typed captions verso, or manuscript captions verso; with Brown Brothers stamps verso. Fine contrast and slight marginal damage; overall excellent to Near Fine.. Following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the United States imposed a number of economic sanctions against Japan, including the 1939 termination of its trade treaty with the country, 1940 oil export embargo, and 1941... Read More
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Collection of Immigration Photographs, Mainly from Ellis Island, Early 20th Century
by [Immigration – Ellis Island – New York City] Unknown Photographer
New York City and Sterling, Pennsylvania: Brown Brothers, 1912. Thirty-nine photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches and smaller. With Brown Brothers stamps verso and many with manuscript captions verso. Conditions vary; mainly very good.. Thirty-nine photographs, mainly of Ellis Island, with one from Partridge Island, Saint John, New Brunswick. The photographs include exterior shots of Ellis Island—both its new building and its old one, which burned down in 1897—and shots of new immigrants on boats and inside the... Read More
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Tintype Portrait of a Formally Dressed African American Man, With Gold Jewelry, c. 1870s–1880s
by [African-Americana – Early Photography] Unknown Photographer
N.p., 1880. Tintype measuring 3 ⅛ x 2 5/16 inches. Fine contrast. Near Fine.. A striking photograph of a formally dressed African American man. The large pin below his neck, as well as the watch chain above his waist, are gold and have been deliberately pin-pricked. The headstand, which kept subjects still for long exposure times, is visible in the background.
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1927 Photograph of the Waseda University Basketball Team, the First Japanese Basketball Team to Play in the US
by [Japan – Basketball – California] Unknown Photographer
California, 1927. Photograph measuring approximately 6 ¾ x 10 inches. Unevenly trimmed top edge; some folding at lower corners; excellent contrast with extensive pencil caption verso. Very good to excellent.. A portrait of the Waseda University basketball team from 1927; according to its manuscript caption the photo was taken following their defeat by the University of California team at the Oakland Auditorium, on a tour of the Pacific coast. The sport, invented in Massachusetts in 1891 (with a... Read More
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Seventeen Photographs Taken by a CCC’er, Likely at Camp Elgin, Oregon
by [Civilian Conservation Corps – New Deal Era – Oregon] Unknown Photographer
Oregon and Wyoming, 1941. Seventeen photographs measuring 3 x 4 ¾ inches. Excellent.. A collection of photographs taken by a CCC’er, mainly appearing to be in Oregon with at least one taken in Green River, Wyoming. The camp to which the photographer belonged is not identified; however, in one photograph a man gives a thumbs up in front of a sign on Oregon Route 204 which reads “ELGIN 1”, with a manuscript caption verso stating that the photograph... Read More
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1920s–1940s Photo Album of California Auto Tourism, a Soap Box Derby, and a Billboard in Tennessee Warning of “NO JOBS in California”
by [Great Depression – California – Auto Tourism – Soap Box Derby] Unknown Photographer
United States, 1940. Photo album measuring 7 x 10 inches containing fifty-three photographs: two tintypes (c. 1890s and 1920s), six RPPCs, and forty-five modern photographs. Photographs mainly measure 4 x 6 inches and smaller. Conditions vary; some with wrinkling and damage, especially to corners and edges; others Fine. Overall excellent.. A photo album of an unknown couple. Early shots include two tintypes which appear to be turn of the century to 1920s, and six real photo postcards, dating... Read More
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Douze Lecons de Photographie: Description de procedes simples et faciles, au moyon desquels on objtient, presque infailliblement, des epreuves sur verre et papier
by [Photographic Literature] Fau, Julien
Paris: Charles Chevalier, 1854. First Edition. 12mo, wraps, 88 pp. A near fine copy with some wear to extremities of wraps and fine contents. Near Fine. A scarce early photographic manual by the anatomist Julien Fau, who was best known for his lithographic works on human anatomy. This is an early manual of the collodion process. Quite uncommon, with eleven copies held institutionally, five in North America. Little is known about Fau’s involvement with photography, though given his... Read More
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Press Photo of Olive Moorefield’s Mother on the Porch of Moorefield’s Childhood Home, 1952
by [African-Americana – Theater – Opera] International News Photos
Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1952. 7 x 9 inch photograph. International News Photos and Tribune 4th Edition stamps verso, with newspaper clipping. Marked “623” in pencil recto. Fine. Olive Moorefield (b.1932) is an American opera singer and theater and film actress from Homestead, Pennsylvania. As the newspaper clipping on the back of this photograph—from very early in Moorefield’s career—explains, “She had earned $22 by baby sitting and decided to go to New York in hopes of auditioning for a play.... Read More
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1938 Press Photo of San Quentin’s Gas Chamber Following the First Two Executions Using It
by [Northern California – Prison History – Capital Punishment] International News Photos
San Quentin, California, 1938. Single 6 ½ x 8 ½ inch photograph, caption affixed verso and marked verso “CALIF - STATE - PRISON SAN QUENTIN, CALIF”. Folded at middle, marginal wrinkling and small tears; fine contrast, very good to excellent.. A press photograph looking into the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison, taken following the execution of Albert Kessel (1909–1938) and Robert Lee Cannon (1908–1938). The pair were the first to be executed at San Quentin using that... Read More
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Carte-de-Visite Portrait of Wendell Phillips, c. 1871-1874
by [Photography – Abolition – Reconstruction] Phillips, Wendell; Sonrel, Antoine
Boston, Massachusetts: Antoine Sonrel, 121 Washington Street, 1874. Albumen photograph on original mount with printed Sonrel studio backstamp. No other examples of this pose located in online institutional collections. Fine condition.. A studio portrait of the abolitionist and reform leader Wendell Phillips (1811–1884), shown seated at a table holding a small bundle of papers or pamphlets. Phillips, one of the most prominent antislavery orators in the United States, continued to play an active role in national reform politics... Read More
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A Manuscript ‘Public Statement of protest’ Recording the Hostile Actions of a French Privateer Against a Portuguese Merchantman, in June 1813
by [Piracy - Atlantic Trade - Peninsular War] Galindo, James (Notary); Hawkins, Isaac (Commander); Ignacio, Don Jose et al.
Plymouth, 1813. Plymouth, Devon, England: 21st July 1813. Folio, 7 pages (13 1/8 x 8 ¼ inches), duty blindstamp, small ink stamp to upper inner margin of the first page, two seals to the last page, signed twice by Galindo. Toned, some small repaired tears (using reversible archival ph-neutral paper-repair tape), very good to near fine. Very Good. An interesting document of privateering in the Peninsular war, this ‘Public Instrument of Protest‘ documents a Portuguese captain and crew... Read More
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A Book of Poems by Amateur Poet Mary S. Fay, With Several Concerning Temperance and Women’s Suffrage
by [Poetry – Women – Vermont] Fay, Mary S.
Reading, Vermont, 1943. 156 pp, with approximately 207 poems, plus a 1934 rejection letter from Perry Mason & Co. Spine broken, cover nearly detached and pages coming detached; some toning and wear to edges of pages, with smell. Overall very good minus.. A book of poems by Vermonter Mary S. Fay (likely 1875–1968). Fay’s topics include friends’ special events; current events such as “Titanic” (May 15, 1912) and “America We Are Ready” (1915, presumably concerning World War I);... Read More
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Archive of Incoming Correspondence of Ellen Gowen Hood of the Democratic Women’s Luncheon Club of Philadelphia, From Colleagues Including Newton Baker, 1920s-1940s
by [Politics - Democratic Party - Pennsylvania] Baker, Newton; Roosevelt, Eleanor; et al.
V.P., 1940. With fifty-eight letters from Newton Baker, 1924-1937. Generally fine condition. Ellen Gowen Hood was active in the Democratic party at both the local and national levels. An obituary from the Philadelphia Daily News in 1970 described her as “one of the earliest local advocates of women in politics.” She was the chairman of the Democratic Women’s Luncheon Club of Philadelphia for 20 years, and had regular correspondence with women such as Edith Bolling Wilson and Eleanor Roosevelt.... Read More
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Share Our Wealth / The Slogan of the Hour. [Broadside]
by [Political Movements - Share Our Wealth Movement] Allen, O.K.; Smith, Gerald; Share Our Wealth Society
Baton Rouge: Typographical Union Label, 1936. First Edition. Broadside, 16 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches. Some wear, a few small holes at creases, slight foxing, very good minus overall. A broadside advertising the Share Our Wealth Program, which had been championed by the late Huey Long prior to his death in 1935, printed when the program was under the direction of Gerald L.K. Smith, who was widely considered a political demagogue and who ran the program into the ground... Read More
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