![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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![[Photograph Album of Internal Shots of Movie Theater Screens]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/113/893/1560893113.0.l.jpg)
[Photograph Album of Internal Shots of Movie Theater Screens]
N.P., 1943. Near fine. 7" x 11¾". Flexible faux leather post-bound album. 98 pages, the first 38 with 109 adhesive mounted photographs and rest of the pages are blank. Photos measure 3" x 4" and approximately three quarters are captioned. Album and contents near fine or better, a few photos a bit loose from adhesive. This is a photo album containing 109 images from 31 well-known movies of the 1930s and early 1940s. Each photo was... Read More
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![[Large Poster Promoting Phil Moore and Others]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/501/118/1716118501.0.l.jpg)
[Large Poster Promoting Phil Moore and Others]
N.P., 1946. Good. 27½” x 41”. Good: splits at old folds repaired with tape on verso; large chip to upper left corner; light dust soiling and a couple of small stains. This is a poster promoting several important Black entertainers that almost certainly relates to a 1946 short film, Stars on Parade, as each person named appeared in the film. Phil Moore was a jazz pianist and bandleader who supported stars such as Frank Sinatra and... Read More
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Disneyland 1961 Original 35mm Slide Images Photos Photographs (Lot 6)
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 of The Magic Kingdom, a village we can't identify, monorail, the Tomorrowland World Clock and bumper cards.
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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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![[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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![Bond, U[lysses] S[impson]. [Ashtray for U.S. Bond's Motel]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/070/642/1630642070.0.l.jpg)
Bond, U[lysses] S[impson]. [Ashtray for U.S. Bond's Motel]
Madison, Arkansas, 1964. Very good. Metal ashtray with a diameter of 5½” at its widest. Very good with moderate wear and light staining. This is a marketing ashtray for U.S. Bond's Motel which was located in Madison, Arkansas. The owner of the motel, Ulysses Simpson Bond attended what became Morehouse College and then Oberlin Business College, and then returned home to Madison. In addition to the hotel, he managed the family gravel business, and manufactured funeral... 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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![By-Laws. Storm King Lodge No. 441. I.B.P.O.E.W. [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/437/586/1693586437.0.l.jpg)
By-Laws. Storm King Lodge No. 441. I.B.P.O.E.W. [Cover title]
Highland Falls, N.Y.: [Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World], 1924. Very good. 5¼” x 3½”. Stapled thin card wrappers. Pp. 12. Very good: wrappers with small tears to corners and top edge, lightly soiled with one small spot to front; slight faint crease throughout. This is a rare early book of bylaws from a New York Lodge of the world's largest African American fraternal organization, the Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of... Read More
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Clark University Courier Catalogue Edition 1899-1900
South Atlanta, Georgia: The Faculty and Students of Clark University/Clark University Printing Department, 1900. Good. 8 ” x 5 ”. Stapled wrappers. Pp. 58 including 4 plates + publishing slip laid in. Good due to wrappers detached; internally very good with light foxing to a few leaves and two plates, some small chips at edges, offsetting to last page and light scattered spotting. This is a rare issue of an early publication out of Clark University,... 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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![[Three Pieces of Ephemera Related to Iota Phi Lamda]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/724/836/1544836724.0.l.jpg)
[Three Pieces of Ephemera Related to Iota Phi Lamda]
[Houston, Texas], 1975. Very good. Two stapled pamphlets, measuring 8½" x 5½" and 11" x 8½"; one single-sheet form measuring 11" x 8½". Very good: slight oxidization to staples; very minor edgewear to form. This is a group of three items relating to the Houston, Texas, chapter of Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc. (IPL). IPL is the first African American sorority for business and professional women. It was founded by Lola Mercedes Parker in 1929 in... Read More
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![[Program for] 22nd Anniversary Celebration. Hering Community Center... [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/065/121/1582121065.0.l.jpg)
[Program for] 22nd Anniversary Celebration. Hering Community Center... [Cover title]
South Bend, Indiana: Hering House Welfare League, 1947. Good. 11" x 8½". Stapled wrappers. Pp. 4. Good: horizontal crease to all leaves; lacking top staple, lightly toned. This is a rare program which honors the anniversary of an important educational and cultural center for the African American community of South Bend, Indiana, the Hering House. We learned how and why Hering House was founded from a 2016 article by Kevin Tidmarsh in Belt Magazine (https://beltmag.com/the-forgotten-legacy-of-buford-gordon/). Tidmarsh... Read More
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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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![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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![Foreign Workers in Germany. A Report Based on Official German Sources [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/725/406/1532406725.0.l.jpg)
Foreign Workers in Germany. A Report Based on Official German Sources [Cover title]
[London, England]: United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration European Regional Office, 1944. Very good +. 6 3/8" x 4". Stapled thin card wrappers. Pp. iv, 85. Very good plus: minimal wear, lightly toned, prior owner penciled name to front wrap. This is a handbook created by the Displaced Persons Division No. 3 of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) for its staff who were assisting refugees residing and/or working in Germany during World War II.... 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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![[Broadside for Georgia Gubernatorial Primary Urging that the Only Issue in the Race Is White Supremacy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/694/992/1448992694.0.l.jpg)
[Broadside for Georgia Gubernatorial Primary Urging that the Only Issue in the Race Is White Supremacy]
[Atlanta, Georgia]: (Eugene Talmadge Campaign?), 1946. Very good +. 14¾" x 8¼". Broadside. Very good plus with minimal wear and folded horizontally at center. This is an ugly reminder of the 1946 Georgia Gubernatorial primary which saw the disenfranchisement of thousands of African Americans--more than enough to sway that election. Earlier in 1946, the Georgia Democratic party's use of a white primary was struck down as unconstitutional. While four people ran in this primary, the race was... 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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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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