![Item #3788 [CARTOGRAPHIC RACISM]. [AMOS 'N ANDY]. Eagle's-Eye View of Weber City (Inc.). i. e....](/pictures/thumb/3788.jpg?v=1666718044)
Chicago: Gwindell Printing Co. for Pepsodent, 1935. Together 3 items: large folding map (38.5 x 50 cm) folded three times as issued (EXCELLENT condition); accompanied by original printed letter (designed to look "handwritten") in Ebonics (a little smudged, otherwise GOOD); with the original mailing envelop with the faces of Amos..... More
![Item #3870 [AFRICAN-AMERICANA - VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS]. Small collection of 7 original...](/pictures/thumb/3870.jpg?v=1666718327)
s.l. (Pittsburgh?): 1940s (?). 7 glossy black and white prints on paper (3 3/16 x 4 1/2 inches), on versos the paper numbered M001, M220, and M349. Some general wear (creasing from handling, soiling on versos, one small tear). ODD, CLAUSTROPHOBIC INNER-CITY VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1940s. Depicted here are..... More
![Item #3905 ["THE VIRGINIA NEGRO" IN 1875]. 'A Rich Treat.' Dr. G.W. Bagby will deliver a lecture,...](/pictures/thumb/3905.jpg?v=1671827753)
Richmond, VA: Clemmitt & Jones, 1875 or 1876. Broadside (48 x 31 cm). Abrasions to outer edges in places, overall very good. STRIKING 1875 POSTER ANNOUNCING A "HUMOROUS" LECTURE ON VIRGINIA NEGROES, DELIVERED BY A POPULAR ANTI-NORTHERNER AND FORMER SLAVE-OWNER, GEORGE WILLIAM BAGBY (1828-1883). The editors of "Representative Men of..... More
![Item #3481 [SLAVERY IN MEXICO 1863]. Message of the President of the United States,...](/pictures/thumb/3481.jpg?v=1666717940)
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1863. First Edition. [3] pp. (final page blank). Extracted from a larger volume (the two leaves are separating). Little-known report to Congress, referencing the estimated 450 Negro Egyptians who were rounded up off the streets, beaten, and forced onto a French ship bound for Mexico..... More
![Item #3784 [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [DETROIT NURSERY SCHOOL]. Archive of 45 original photographs...](/pictures/thumb/3784.jpg?v=1673876536)
Detroit: early 1970s. Collection of 45 vintage borderless vernacular photographs, of which 41 photographs measure 5 x 4 inches, and four measure 3.5 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine., preserved in a modern black photo-album (PVC / acid emissions free). A significant collection of vernacular photographs documenting a Black-owned daycare in..... More
![Item #3878 [AFRICAN-AMERICANA - FILM]. Promotional Broadsheets for Owners of "Colored" Movie...](/pictures/thumb/3878.jpg?v=1666718345)
Arlington, Florida: Norman Studios, 1926-1928. First Edition. Together 4 large color-printed promotional broadsides of equal size. 4 pp. 22" x 14" (unfolded) and 11" x 3.4" (folded to create a multi-paneled mailing brochure). Trifle wear to unfolded specimens (evidence of horizontal fold to "The Flying Ace"), a few short tears..... More
![Item #3813 [AFRICAN AMERICANA]. [WHITE SUPREMACY]. [COMMUNISM]. "The Red-Tagging of Negro...](/pictures/thumb/3813.jpg?v=1666718095)
New York: NAACP, 1957. 8vo. [2], 325-333, [1] pp. Original self-wrappers, stapled as issued. Some toning around the edges but the paper stock is strong and crisp. Written 65 years ago, this little-known article is just as thought-provoking today, as Americans respond to the Black Lives Matter movement and related..... More
![Item #3797 [AFRICAN-AMERICANA]. Negro Makers of History. Carter Godwin Woodson](/pictures/thumb/3797.jpg?v=1666718058)
Washington DC: Associated Publishers, 1928. First Edition. 8vo. [2], vi, 362 pp. Faint tide-line along extreme outer fore-edge margins in the first half of the book, most pronounced in first 100 pages or so (SEE IMAGES), but the paper stock is strong and crisp. Original publisher's binding of light brown..... More
