![[Autograph Letter, Signed, by Abolitionist Elias Richards, to His Abolitionist Wife Elizabeth Hunt Richards in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Describing Pittsburgh and Mentioning an Early Abolitionist Meeting in the City]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/978/958/1721958978.0.l.jpg)
[Autograph Letter, Signed, by Abolitionist Elias Richards, to His Abolitionist Wife Elizabeth Hunt Richards in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Describing Pittsburgh and Mentioning an Early Abolitionist Meeting in the City]
by [Abolition]: [Pennsylvania]: Richards, Elias
Pittsburgh, Pa: August 2, 1838. Good.. [2]pp., on a single folded sheet, integral blank addressed on verso. Original mailing folds, somewhat tender along fold lines, a small panel of integral blank chipped away along fold lines, short tear and small area of loss from removed wax seal to first leaf costing or affecting a few words, top edge bumped. An informative manuscript letter written by a notable abolitionist during his travels through Pittsburgh in the summer of 1838.... Read More
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Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition; or, an Inquiry Into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery
by [Abolition]: [Philadelphia Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society]: [Heyrick, Elizabeth]
Philadelphia: Published by the Philadelphia Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. Printed by Merrihew and Gunn, 1836. Good.. 24pp. Disbound. Ex-Vermont State Library, with embossed blindstamp and remnants of shelf label on title page and small numbered ink stamp on first page of text. Remnants of original wrappers along outer gutters, mostly minor foxing throughout. A rare Philadelphia edition of an early abolitionist tract by Elizabeth Heyrick, an English Quaker. The work was first published in Great Britain in 1824 and... Read More
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![[Partially Printed Receipt, Completed in Manuscript, Printed at Redpath's Crusader of Freedom Office in Doniphan County, Kansas]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/008/959/1721959008.0.l.jpg)
[Partially Printed Receipt, Completed in Manuscript, Printed at Redpath's Crusader of Freedom Office in Doniphan County, Kansas]
by [Abolition]: [Bleeding Kansas]: [Redpath, James]
Doniphan, Ks: Printed at the Crusader of Freedom Office, 1858. Very good.. Single sheet, 3.5 x 7.5 inches. Minor foxing, light edge wear. An uncommon form, printed at James Redpath's Crusader of Freedom office in Doniphan, Kansas. The Scottish-born Redpath originally worked for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune where he published a series of articles compiling Facts of Slavery. In 1855, he moved to the Kansas-Missouri border and reported on the slavery disputes for the Free Soil newspaper, the... Read More
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The National Era
by [Abolitionist Press]: Whittier, John Greenleaf: Bailey, Gamaliel
Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard, 1858. Good.. Twelve issues, each 4pp., printed in seven columns. Large folio. Old folds, varying levels of chipping, fold separations, foxing, and edge wear. Occasional minor loss of text from wear at crossfolds and in one case a tobacco burn. Some issues with ink notations at top left or in the top margin. A dozen issues, published over the course of a decade in the mid-19th century, of the abolitionist newspaper The National... Read More
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![Rosa. A Slave Girl from New Orleans [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/160/959/1721959160.0.l.jpg)
Rosa. A Slave Girl from New Orleans [caption title]
by [Abolition]: [Photography]: [Downs, Rosina]
New York: S. Tackaberry, 1864. Very good.. Carte de visite photograph, 3.25 x 2 inches, on a slightly larger printed mount. Minor soiling and spotting, light edge wear. One of a series of CDVs featuring recently freed slaves produced in 1863-64 as part of a fundraising effort in the American South. This image is noted as "No. 10" at the top of the verso. According to a notice printed on the verso: "The nett proceeds from the sale... Read More
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Lectures of George Thompson... Also, a Brief History of His Connection with the Anti-Slavery Cause in England
by [Abolition]: Garrison, William Lloyd
Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1836. Good.. 190pp. 12mo. Contemporary brown publisher's cloth, cover gilt. Spine lightly repaired, covers scuffed and extremities lightly worn. Bookplate on front pastedown, a few institutional blindstamps throughout. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Light scattered foxing. Collected lectures of British abolitionist and politician George Thompson (1804-1878), assembled by his friend and compatriot, William Lloyd Garrison. Thompson was a sitting member of Parliament who toured the U.S. and Britain extensively, lecturing for the abolitionist cause.... Read More
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![Nieuwejaars Heil-En Zegenwensch, Eerbiedig Opgedragen Aan de Edel-Achtbare Heeren Burgomeester en Wethouderen en Verdere Ingezetenen van Utrecht, Door de Lantaarnopstekers Bij den Aanvang van het Jaar 1857 [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/818/088/1741088818.0.l.jpg)
Nieuwejaars Heil-En Zegenwensch, Eerbiedig Opgedragen Aan de Edel-Achtbare Heeren Burgomeester en Wethouderen en Verdere Ingezetenen van Utrecht, Door de Lantaarnopstekers Bij den Aanvang van het Jaar 1857 [caption title]
by [Netherlands]: [Lamplighters Address]
[Utrecht, 1857. Illustrated broadside, 17 x 13.75 inches, with large illustration at top printed in black, and title and body text printed in gold in three columns. Old folds, minor toning around edges, a few short closed tears, two small repairs on verso to short line separations, light surface wear and soiling. Overall very good. A rare lamplighters' address, akin to the American postal carrier's address, issued by the "Lantaarnopstekers" of Utrecht on New Year's Day, 1857. The illustration... Read More
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![Happy Bob Robinson's Medley Songster. A Collection of Very Popular Songs, Composed and Sung with Great Success, by Happy Bob Robinson [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/105/959/1721959105.0.l.jpg)
Happy Bob Robinson's Medley Songster. A Collection of Very Popular Songs, Composed and Sung with Great Success, by Happy Bob Robinson [caption title]
by [Minstrelsy]: [Book Advertising]
[N.p., n.d., likely late-19th century]. Very good.. Broadside, 13.25 x 12.5 inches, with title printed vertically at left and text printed in two columns. Old folds, some wrinkling, minor dust soiling. An unrecorded advertising broadside for an unrecorded (and perhaps unproduced) songster ostensibly written by Happy Bob Robinson, the leader of a traveling vaudeville company that traipsed all over the country in the last two decades of the 19th and into the early-20th century. The broadside prints the... Read More
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![Let's Go! To Washington! In Support of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Our Congressman and Chairman... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/024/959/1721959024.0.l.jpg)
Let's Go! To Washington! In Support of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Our Congressman and Chairman... [caption title]
by [African Americana]: [Civil Rights]: [Powell, Adam Clayton]
New York, 1961. Very good.. Broadside, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Remnants of old tape at top and bottom edges, minor soiling and wear. Handbill advertising a "bus brigade" to Washington for the opening of Congress in 1961 in support of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. Powell would be seated as chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor starting in 1961, after fifteen years as a Congressman. This flyer continues, "Don't let them unseat Adam! Join the bus... Read More
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History of the Mosaic Templars of America - Its Founders and Officials
by [African Americana]: Bush, A.E. and P.L. Dorman, editors
Little Rock: Central Printing Company, 1924. Good.. 291pp., plus thirty-one photographic portrait plates. Publisher's green cloth with titles stamped in black. Considerable wear and staining to boards, edges worn. Hinges partially separated but holding by mull cloth. Latter portion of text dampstained. A well-worn copy of a rather scarce book. An uncommon work detailing the history, activities, and prominent early members of the Mosaic Templars of America. According to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, the Mosaic Templars was "an... Read More
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![1901 1941 Fortieth Anniversary Afro-American Life Insurance Co. [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/117/959/1721959117.0.l.jpg)
1901 1941 Fortieth Anniversary Afro-American Life Insurance Co. [wrapper title]
by [African Americana]: [Florida]: [Afro-American Life Insurance Co.]
[N.p., likely Jacksonville, Fl., 1941. [4],61,[2]pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Substantial creasing, rubbing, dust-soiling, and overall wear to wrappers. Faint foxing and spotting to initial and terminal leaves, but mostly clean internally. Very good. A rare pamphlet celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company, an important African-American-owned-and-operated insurance company in Florida. The work includes reproductions of congratulatory letters to the company from Florida governor Spessard Holland and others, portraits and information on the company’s founders, passages on... Read More
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![The Killing of William Milton [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/991/958/1721958991.0.l.jpg)
The Killing of William Milton [wrapper title]
by [African Americana]: Shields, Art
New York: The Daily Worker, 1948. Near fine.. 16pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Mild toning and light wear. A scarce account of the events surrounding the death of William Milton, described as "a useful, hard-working, law-abiding citizen...a devoted husband and loving father...sympathetic to his neighbors' problems...what people call a good man" who was also "a Negro and so marked out for that special torture that American society visits upon men and women who are colored." On... Read More
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![[Archive of Documents and Related Material Involving the National Ideal Benefit Society]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/645/958/1721958645.0.l.jpg)
[Archive of Documents and Related Material Involving the National Ideal Benefit Society]
by [African Americana]: [Virginia]: [Holmes, A.W.]
[Mainly Richmond and Norfolk, Va, 1932. Very good.. Fifteen documents, two printed publications, one 8-x-10-inch photograph, and a handful of ephemeral items. Varying levels of toning and wear, old folds, minor occasional chipping. An informative archive of over thirty items providing a snapshot into the activities of the National Ideal Benefit Society (NIBS) in Richmond, Virginia. The NIBS was a prominent African-American insurance cooperative founded in Richmond in 1912 and very active in the state in the first... Read More
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![Challenge to Young Americans [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/070/959/1721959070.0.l.jpg)
Challenge to Young Americans [caption title]
by [African Americana]: Rustin, Bayard
New York: Youth Committee for Peace and Democracy in the Middle East, 1970. Very good.. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minor discoloration to inner two pages, otherwise very nice. A very rare, if not unrecorded, offprint of an interesting article by notable African-American social activist Bayard Rustin, focused on support for Israel within the Black community. The article was here reprinted from the November 1970 issue of Keeping Posted by the Youth Committee for Peace and Democracy... Read More
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![The Frame-Up of Benjamin Lowell Careathers: Opening Statement to the Court and Jury by Benjamin Lowell Careathers, Defendant in the Thought Control Smith Act Trial... [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/988/720/1737720988.0.l.jpg)
The Frame-Up of Benjamin Lowell Careathers: Opening Statement to the Court and Jury by Benjamin Lowell Careathers, Defendant in the Thought Control Smith Act Trial... [wrapper title]
by [African Americana]: Careathers, Benjamin Lowell
Pittsburgh: Committee to Defend the Pittsburgh Five, 1953. 24pp. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Minor toning and handling wear. Very good. A scarce pamphlet pertaining to the controversial legal battle pertaining to one of the Pittsburgh defendants in a notable Smith Act case. Careathers, a longtime Communist activist, was accused by an informant of plotting violence with other Communists, collectively known as the Pittsburgh Five. Here, Careathers provides a passionate defense by detailing his life struggles, his positive history with... Read More
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Out of Crime Into Christ
by [African Americana]: Roberts, Billy
[New York, 1940. Near fine.. 32pp. Original dark gray wrappers stamped in blue. Very minor toning. A very rare autobiographical pamphlet in which Billy Roberts, an African American minister, recounts his life of addiction, alcoholism, and crime and his redemption in 1932 when he opens his "heart's door" to Jesus Christ while living down and out in Seattle. Roberts apparently hosted a weekly radio show on Saturday nights on station WOV 1280 in New York City. In addition... Read More
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![Help Him to Expand His Radio Ministry. Bishop E. Nero of Landmark Spiritual Temple, 317 Divisidero, San Francisco, California. Don't Forget to Listen Each Sunday... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/804/322/1728322804.0.l.jpg)
Help Him to Expand His Radio Ministry. Bishop E. Nero of Landmark Spiritual Temple, 317 Divisidero, San Francisco, California. Don't Forget to Listen Each Sunday... [caption title]
by [African Americana]: [California]: Nero, Bishop Ezra
[San Francisco, 1940. Printed handbill, 8.5 x 6 inches, illustrated. Minor handling wear, horizontal crease. Very good. An unrecorded handbill advertising the Bay-Area radio broadcasts by Bishop Ezra Nero, leader of the Landmark Spiritual Temple in San Francisco. The work includes a photographic portrait of Bishop Nero in his ecclesiastical garb. We could locate no other copies of this ephemeral broadside.
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![The Progress of the Negro Race. Address of Hon. Boies Penrose [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/201/959/1721959201.0.l.jpg)
The Progress of the Negro Race. Address of Hon. Boies Penrose [wrapper title]
by [African Americana]: Penrose, Boies
Washington, D.C.: National Capitol Press, Inc, 1914. Very good.. 28pp. Original printed self wrappers, stapled. Minor wear, soft diagonal crease throughout. A rare address by long-serving Pennsylvania Senator Boies Penrose before the attendees of a "Patriotic Race Service" in Philadelphia on March 1, 1914. The title at the head of the address reads, "Address of Hon. Boies Penrose at a Patriotic Race Service, Held by the Negroes of Philadelphia, Under the Direction of One Hundred Representative Citizens and... Read More
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Some Reports of a Trip Made by Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute Through the State of Tennessee November 18-28, 1909. Reprinted from the New York Evening Post
by [African Americana]: Washington, Booker T.
[N.p., 1909. About very good.. 31pp. Original brown printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear, top edge bumped, soft vertical crease throughout. Short closed horizontal tear to Preface leaf. A rare collection of articles pertaining to a series of visits made by Booker T. Washington throughout Tennessee (and briefly in Kentucky) in 1909. According to the Preface: "The articles and editorial expressions reprinted herewith from the New York Evening Post, and several other publications describe the effectiveness and value of... Read More
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![[Letter, Signed, from Booker T. Washington to Professor C.E. Norton]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/828/958/1721958828.0.l.jpg)
[Letter, Signed, from Booker T. Washington to Professor C.E. Norton]
by [African Americana]: Washington, Booker T.
Tuskegee, Al, 1908. Very good.. [1]p., written on Tuskegee Institute letterhead. Original mailing folds, minor toning. A short correspondence from Booker T. Washington to noted educator Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard. Norton was a progressive social reformer who lectured on fine arts at Harvard, and was one of the most popular teachers in Cambridge in his day. Here, Washington writes to Norton, transmitting the latest Tuskegee annual report. Washington's message reads, in full: "Kind Friend, Enclosed, I... Read More
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![[Large Advertising Display for Pearl Beer Featuring Legendary Swing Band Leader, Cab Calloway]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/114/959/1721959114.0.l.jpg)
[Large Advertising Display for Pearl Beer Featuring Legendary Swing Band Leader, Cab Calloway]
by [African Americana]: [Pearl Beer]: Calloway, Cab
San Antonio: San Antonio Brewers Association, 1950. Seven-color lithograph including reproduced photographs of Calloway and a bottle of Pearl Beer, measuring 19.25 x 23.75 inches. Minor edge wear, faint dampstain along bottom edge, else a really nice example. Very good. An evocative piece of midcentury advertising art featuring Swing Band leader Cab Calloway pitching Pearl Beer of San Antonio, Texas. The text of the advertising piece reads: "Join the Swing to Pearl. Xtra Dry. Xtra Light. Xtra Mellow. The... Read More
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![[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Belonging to a Young African American Woman in Missouri]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/063/959/1721959063.0.l.jpg)
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Belonging to a Young African American Woman in Missouri]
by [African-American Photographica]: [Johnson, Cassie]
Columbia, Mo, 1935. Very good.. [10] leaves, illustrated with thirty-one mounted photographs. Contemporary black cloth photograph album, string tied. Minor wear to edges. Some photographs missing. A nice album. A nicely-captioned vernacular photograph album assembled by Cassie Johnson of Columbia, Missouri. Johnson and a few friends have signed the front cover of the album, which is also captioned with "Columbia Mo" and "June 4, 1935." The photographs are also captioned in the same white ink and feature four... Read More
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![The Colored Boy [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/352/283/1768283352.0.l.jpg)
The Colored Boy [wrapper title]
by [African Americana]: Somerville, C.C.
[N.p., likely Portsmouth, Va, 1929. [5],25pp. Original pictorial wrappers with photographic portrait of the author as a young man on front wrapper, stapled. Substantial toning and some dust-soiling and pencil math markings to wrappers, moderate chip to bottom corner of rear wrapper. Internally quite clean. Overall about very good. An exceedingly rare work of African American uplift published at the outset of the Great Depression by a notable Virginia preacher. Dr. C.C. Somerville was an active and in-demand traveling... Read More
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Our Stake in the South
by [African Americana]: Johnson, Charles S.
New York: Sidney Hillman Foundation, 1956. Very good.. 11,[1]pp. Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Mild creasing. Minor toning and dust soiling. An address by Charles S. Johnson, the first Black president of Fisk University, before a convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in 1956 on subject of education and desegregation in the South, two years after the decision in Brown vs. Board of Education. He denounces the "little men of less noble designs and foreshortened vision" who have appeared... Read More
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![To the Colored People. A Few Plain Words on the Square Deal [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/910/958/1721958910.0.l.jpg)
To the Colored People. A Few Plain Words on the Square Deal [wrapper title]
by [African Americana]: [Progressive Party]: [Bird, Charles Sumner]
Boston: Washington Press, 1912. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minor wear and soiling, a few short closed tears to edges, corners creased. About very good. A rather rare political campaign leaflet published by the Progressive Party's candidate for the 1912 gubernatorial election, Charles Sumner Bird. The interior includes a photographic portrait of Bird, claiming him as "The Man for You...Colored Men and Women..." and thereafter listing the reasons Bird is the right candidate for African-American voters. The first... Read More
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