![Puerto Rican and Proud/Puertorriquenos y Orgullosos [Front panel title.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/989/624/1576624989.0.l.jpg)
Puerto Rican and Proud/Puertorriquenos y Orgullosos [Front panel title.]
New York, NY: Foundation for Change Inc, 1973. Very good +. 11" x 8½". Bifolium printed all four sides and folded to 3¾" x 8½". Very good plus with minimal wear. This bilingual brochure was produced by an organization focused on improving race relations whose name makes it difficult to research- the Foundation for Change, Inc. ("FFC"). See item 2, above, for more on the FFC. This brochure featured 14 photographic images and printed... Read More
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![[Automobiles and Industrial Equipment] Photo Album Likely Depicting Serbian Automobile and Industrial Goods Business](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/380/254/1042254380.0.l.jpg)
[Automobiles and Industrial Equipment] Photo Album Likely Depicting Serbian Automobile and Industrial Goods Business
Serbia, 1960. 6½" x 10". Full red rawhide. 20 leaves interleaved with tissue, with 22 black and white photographs measuring 5" x 7" mounted to mostly to rectos. Very good: front cover wavy, dust soiled and with some flecks of white paint; leaves and photos a bit wavy, else near fine. An interesting industrial album depicting Jugokomercijin Sajam which appears to be a business selling used cars and industrial equipment. There are several images of the outside of the... Read More
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Directory of Black Artists and Arts Resources
Seattle: Arts Resource Services, 1979. Very good. 8¼” x 10¾”. Perfect bound thin card wrappers. Pp. [8], 192. Very good: front wrapper partially detached and reinforced at the hinge with archival tape; both wrappers with some staining; some minor dogearring to leaves. This is a comprehensive directory documenting African Americans in the arts in the Seattle area circa 1979. From the preface: “To number the Black artists in the Seattle area at something less than... Read More
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![AIDS, Civil Rights and the Public Health: America's Leaders Speak Out [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/215/156/1299156215.0.l.jpg)
AIDS, Civil Rights and the Public Health: America's Leaders Speak Out [Cover title]
San Francisco and West Hollywood, California: National Gay Rights Advocates, 1988. Very good. First edition stated. 8 ½” x 5 ½”. Stapled card wrappers. pp. [2], 32, [2]. Very good: wrappers dust soiled and heavily rubbed, internally fine. The National Gay Rights Advocates (“NGRA”) was founded in 1978 and was the first public interest law firm for lesbians and gay men in the United States. By the time of this publication, it was active in every state... Read More
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![A Fit or No Sale" [Cover title for Crack-a-Jack Brand Tailoring Fabric Sample Book]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/757/866/1759866757.0.l.jpg)
A Fit or No Sale" [Cover title for Crack-a-Jack Brand Tailoring Fabric Sample Book]
Chicago: Danforth Mills Company, 1914. Very good. 16¾" x 17¾". Faux leather over boards. 32 thick-card leaves with 312 product samples. Very good: moderate wear and staining to boards; most pages with small bits of surface loss; lacking five fabric samples. This is a massive promotional for the Crack-a-Jack Brand Tailoring company. Per contemporary newspaper mentions, the company existed as early as 1907 with the latest mention in 1920. Crack-a-Jack apparently licensed distributors throughout the midwest who... Read More
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![[Photo Album Showing the Panama Canal Zone.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/765/681/1740681765.0.l.jpg)
[Photo Album Showing the Panama Canal Zone.]
Panama and the Panama Canal, 1918. Good. String tied faux leather over boards. The first 12 pages hold 55 black and white photographs either inserted into corner mounts or hinge mounted. Photos measure 3½" x 5 ½" or larger and nearly all are captioned. Album good: heavily stained with evidence of water damage; photos generally very good or better several stained and/or with water damage. This is an album of fantastic rare real photo postcards and... Read More
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Historical and Pictorial Review . . . Camp Lee, Virginia. 1941
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: The Army and Navy Publishing Company, Inc, 1941. Very good. 12¼" x 9". Decorated cloth over boards. Pp. 106. Very good: 2" loss to cloth at top of spine; front hinge partly cracked; a few faint soil spots and dings to boards; marginal foxing, damp stains and associated creasing throughout; some thumb soiling and a few small spots; former owner's name to front pastedown. This is a fantastic yearbook revealing the wholly African... Read More
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![Bhratri [Vol. 2, No. 2 (July 1934)]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/750/866/1759866750.0.l.jpg)
Bhratri [Vol. 2, No. 2 (July 1934)]
San Francisco, California: The League of Y.M.B.A. of North America and North American Federation of Y.W.B.A. Leagues, 1934. Very good -. 10 " x 7¾". Paper wrappers. Pp. [vi], 228 + [iv], 36 in Japanese from rear. Very good minus: shaken, text block detached from front hinge and some quires loose but intact at rear hinge; 3" tear to one leaf splitting the lower edge of one image and affecting a few words of text with no loss... Read More
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![[Photo Album Depicting the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Africa with Many Images of Indigenous Peoples]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/745/866/1759866745.0.l.jpg)
[Photo Album Depicting the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Africa with Many Images of Indigenous Peoples]
Morocco and Senegal, 1943. Near fine. 10" x 13½". Leather-tied full leather over flexible card. 36 pages with 156 photographs mostly inserted into corner mounts. Photos are a range of sizes and most are captioned. Album very good with moderate wear; photos generally near fine or better. This album was compiled by a member of the 93rd Evacuation Hospital while the unit was in Africa in 1943. According to a unit history we found online: ... Read More
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![The Sioux City Negro Year Book [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/747/866/1759866747.0.l.jpg)
The Sioux City Negro Year Book [Cover title]
Sioux City, Iowa: James Ruffin, 1962. Very good -. 10 " x 8½". Stapled pictorial wrappers. Pp. [24]. Very good minus: moderate staining and scrawling to wrappers, which are split below bottom staple; some faint creasing, stray ink and light soiling, with one brief inked notation and a few small spots. This is a rare, heavily photographically illustrated tribute to African American residents and businesses of Sioux City, Iowa. Black migration to Sioux City... Read More
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![[Watercolors of Antigua and St. Vincent]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/726/866/1759866726.0.l.jpg)
[Watercolors of Antigua and St. Vincent]
Antigua and Barbuda; St. Vincent and The Grenadines, 1850. Very good. Two paintings, one measuring 4 7/8" x 8 1/8", the other 4 ¼" x 7 3/8"; each on slightly larger sheets which are affixed to scrapbook pages. Very good. This is a pair of lovely paintings of shore scenes in the Caribbean countries of Antigua and Barbuda and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, respectively. Each is initialed "WCMC" and appear to show native people at... Read More
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![[Archive of Dance Tickets and Song Sheets for Benevolent and Social Clubs]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/742/866/1759866742.0.l.jpg)
[Archive of Dance Tickets and Song Sheets for Benevolent and Social Clubs]
New York, New York, 1926. Very good. 131 cards, most around 2½" x 4½", a few larger folded to same. Generally very good: some with light to moderate wear, toning or spotting. This is a lively collection of tickets, song and dance cards for charity and entertainment events in New York City, sponsored by a slew of political, fraternal and social groups. While a few of the present tickets show events held during World... Read More
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![Down Mexico Way [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/718/866/1759866718.0.l.jpg)
Down Mexico Way [cover title]
Mostly Mexico, 1947. Near fine. 11½" x 14½". Full leather post binder with gilt titles to cover. 71 leaves with 347 black and white photos adhesive mounted rectos only. Nearly all photos measure 3¼" x 4½" and nearly all are captioned with place names at a minimum. Album and contents near fine with leaves that are a little wavy. This is an exceptional album depicting Mexico at the middle of the 20th century. The compiler was... Read More
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![Pegasus. Summer 1916 [Manuscript title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/756/866/1759866756.0.l.jpg)
Pegasus. Summer 1916 [Manuscript title]
[Devon, England], 1916. Very good. 10 " x 8¼". Quarter leather over boards. Pp. 135, [20]. Very good: backstrip perished, light scuffing and faint spotting to boards; foxing to pastedowns and loss to (blank) RFEP; a few chips to title page not approaching illustration; foxing and offsetting common throughout but still internally vivid and bright. This is an astounding, entirely handmade arts and literary journal from England, Pegasus. It was created by the Pegasus Club, a... Read More
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![[Collection of Photographs of Heavy Metal and Rock Musicians]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/734/866/1759866734.0.l.jpg)
[Collection of Photographs of Heavy Metal and Rock Musicians]
[New York and New Jersey], 2005. Very good +. 259 photographs (95 loose, 164 in labeled mylar sleeves) + 1 real photo postcard and 9 loose items of ephemera. Photos range from 3½" x 4¼" to 5" x 7" (most 4" x 6", a few cut smaller), all but ten are color and about half are captioned versos. Generally very good plus: one with a tiny tear and a few adhesive remnants to versos. This is... Read More
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The Revised Pictorial Review of Mission Stations of the Foreign Mission Board . .
Philadelphia, PA: Foreign Mission Board, National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc, 1950. Very good. 12” x 9”. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Pp. 77. Very good: a bit of light edge wear to wraps; paper clip indentation and light creasing to top edge of several leaves. This is a rare and fantastic photo book revealing the work of African American missionaries around the world. It was issued by the Foreign Missions Board (FMB) of the largest Black religious organization... Read More
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![Fourth Report of the Maryland Workshop for the Blind For The Two years ending September 30th, 1915 [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/704/992/1448992704.0.l.jpg)
Fourth Report of the Maryland Workshop for the Blind For The Two years ending September 30th, 1915 [Cover title]
Baltimore, Maryland: the Corporation, 1915. Very good +. 9" x 6 1/8" Stapled wrappers. pp. 24; 16 + five plates. Very good plus: fresh with minimal wear, light dust soiling to wrappers and offsetting on pages opposite plates. This is the fourth biennial report of the Maryland Workshop for the Blind ("MWB") which was originally established in 1908 by an act of the Maryland legislature and is now known as the Blind Industries and Services of Maryland... Read More
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Television Screen Shots of Second Inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson
Washington DC, 1964. 4 1/8" x 3". 16 loose black and white photos. Fine with light edge wear. This is a group of black and white photos taken of a television screen showing the second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson. Most of them show close-ups of either the President or Hubert Humphrey, with a couple showing them together. One photo shows Humphrey with his hand raised while he is being sworn in as Vice President. ... Read More
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The World-Famous Williams' Colored Singers Program African American
Ohio, 1917. Very good. This listing is a program for The World-Famous Williams' Colored Singers presented by The Tribe of Ephraim St. John's A.M.E. Church. The highly regarded, classically trained African American ensemble toured internationally in the early 20th century, helping to popularize Black spirituals and combat racial discrimination through music. The program is dated for a performance on May 7, 1917 at the Xenia Opera House. The cover lists ushers, the manager and assistants. The inside pages... Read More
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Shirt With Embroidered Signatures of 46 Japanese American Internees
[Poston Interment Camp, Arizona]:[circa 1944-1945]. Cotton shirt measuring 20" from tip of collar to waist, and 16" from shoulder to shoulder. Good: stained and lacking buttons. This is a button down shirt with the embroidered signatures of 46 Japanese Americans we believe were interned at the Poston War Relocation Center. Poston was the largest of the Japanese-American internment camps with a peak population of over 17,000, most of whom were from Southern California. Built by Del Webb... Read More
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![[Photo Album of a Japanese Political Society]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/643/592/1466592643.0.l.jpg)
[Photo Album of a Japanese Political Society]
Japan, 1923. Very good. 8½" x 12¼". Paper over boards, Japanese title to front. 30 card leaves with one 4½" x 6¼" B&W photograph adhered to each recto and Japanese-captioned interleaves. Very good: boards a bit loose and spotted, small chips to front and moderate loss to rear; interleaves with some wear and a few faint stains; light spotting to some photos. This is a lovely photograph album revealing members of a lesser-known Japanese political faction,... Read More
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![[Photographs and Promotional Ephemera for Trick Ropers and Rodeo Stars]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/763/681/1740681763.0.l.jpg)
[Photographs and Promotional Ephemera for Trick Ropers and Rodeo Stars]
[Various places including Florida, California and New York], 1985. 75 B&W and 5 color photographs ranging from 4" x 6" to 8" x 10" (all captioned, two signed) plus 15 pieces of ephemera ranging from 9½" x 6¼" to 16½" x 10½". Generally very good or better: some light edge wear, spotting and toning. This is a great group of press, professional and vernacular photographs, clippings and ephemera showing a slew of superstars of western entertainment, many... Read More
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![Minority Community Relations Manual [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/327/921/1690921327.0.l.jpg)
Minority Community Relations Manual [Cover title]
[St. Louis, Missouri]: Anheuser-Busch, Inc, 1972. Good. 11” x 8 3/8”. Red wrappers, title and emblem gilt. Pp. [289] + business card laid in. Good due to the fact that the book is separated into two nearly equally sized text blocks; otherwise wrappers moderately sunned, lightly foxed and scuffed; mild spotting to first page, and internally fresh with a touch of toning to edges. This is a monumental resource revealing the efforts of the Anheuser-Busch company... Read More
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![[Angela Morgan's Copy of] The Book of The Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-eight of The Ogontz School](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/721/177/1386177721.0.l.jpg)
[Angela Morgan's Copy of] The Book of The Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-eight of The Ogontz School
Rydal, Pennsylvania/Wildwood, New Jersey: The Ogontz School/Wilson G. Kent Co, 1928. Very good. 9¼" x 6¼". Limited to 44 copies, this being number 3. Decoratively embossed leather over thick boards with purple silk moire pastedowns, aeg. pp. 259, [15, blanks] + 56 tipped in silver gelatin photographs measuring 6" x 4". Very good: board edges heavily worn with areas of loss; lacks clasp; internally very good plus or better with hints of toning at extremities and near fine... Read More
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A Simple Matter of Justice. 1993 March On Washington For Lesbian, Gay, And Bi Equal Rights And Liberation
Washington DC: Program Guide Project of the Comittee for the March on Washington, Inc, 1993. Very good +. 10 ¾" x 8". Stapled wrappers. pp. 96. Very good plus with light wear and light toning at extremities. This is the program guide for the 1993 March. Its first page is a strongly worded reflection of the LGBTQ community as well as its demands, and stating that "every out lesbian, gay, and bi is a hero." It contains... Read More
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