![3729343] The Negro in Sports. [Revised Edition]. Edwin Bancroft Henderson](/pictures/thumb/3729343.jpg?v=1593543972)
Survey of African American athletes in the sports of boxing, track and field, football, basketball, baseball, tennis, golf, etc. Includes chapters on “Negro Girls in..... Read More about The Negro in Sports. [Revised Edition
![3730418] Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Gouverneur High School, for the Year ending...](/pictures/thumb/3730418_1.jpg?v=1620785301)
Gouverneur High School was incorporated in 1828 in St. Lawrence County, New York. Out of it grew Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, conducted by the Black River..... Read More about Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Gouverneur High School, for the Year ending July 10th,...
![3724812] The Government of the Edwin Forrest Home, Comprising the List of Officers, Will Of Edwin...](/pictures/thumb/3724812_1.jpg?v=1646712318)
Unrecorded 1902 sewn pamphlet describing the function and purpose of the Edwin Forrest Home in Philadelphia located at 4849 Parkside avenue. The Home was established..... Read More about The Government of the Edwin Forrest Home, Comprising the List of Officers, Will Of Edwin Forrest,...
![3727294] Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains under the Command of...](/pictures/thumb/3727294_1.jpg?v=1595965820)
[Title continues:] From the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other Gentlemen of the Expedition Party Compiled by Edwin James, Botanist and Geologist..... Read More about Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains under the Command of Major...
![3731236] The Union League During The War. Paper prepared for the United Service Club…February...](/pictures/thumb/3731236_1.jpg?v=1638428735)
The Union League was founded in 1862 during the Civil War to support President Abraham Lincoln and Republican government and to champion the Union cause..... Read More about The Union League During The War. Paper prepared for the United Service Club…February 22d, 1888
![3731476] Our Country, The United States of America, Our People, Americans All. [cover title]....](/pictures/thumb/3731476_1.jpg?v=1643483526)
1960s Middle and Junior High School social studies unit guide promoting the values of diversity. The guide was prepared for teachers to promote geographical knowledge..... Read More about Our Country, The United States of America, Our People, Americans All. [cover title
![3731916] Here Then is that Helpful as well as Ennobling Discourse Entitled The Essay on...](/images/noimage-req.png)
One of an unknown quantity of tall copies of this appealing presentation of Henry David Thoreau’s essay on friendship. Two initials and the signed colophon..... Read More about Here Then is that Helpful as well as Ennobling Discourse Entitled The Essay on Friendship
![3730710] Memoir of Philip and Rachel Price [inscribed by their son and the book’s co-publisher,...](/pictures/thumb/3730710_1.jpg?v=1628131388)
Memorial biography of Quaker educators and abolitionists Philip and Rachel Price, written and co-published by their son, Eli K. Price. Price inscribed, signed, and presented..... Read More about Memoir of Philip and Rachel Price [inscribed by their son and the book’s co-publisher, Eli K....
![145905] To the Young Gentlemen under the Patronage of the American Education Society… [opening...](/pictures/thumb/145905_1.jpg?v=1643054730)
This printed letter addressed to the “Beloved Youth” enrolled in American theological academies in 1830 served as an injunction for “the favored sons of the..... Read More about To the Young Gentlemen under the Patronage of the American Education Society… [opening lines
![3731103] Man in the Shadows [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]. Elias Lieberman](/pictures/thumb/3731103_1.jpg?v=1642471488)
Lieberman was a Russian Jew who emigrated to America as a young man. he is noted for his 1916 poem “I Am an American.” In..... Read More about Man in the Shadows [Inscribed and Signed by the Author
![3729270] “Let Freemen Read!” Joshua R. Giddings’ Falsehoods Repelled! [opening lines of...](/pictures/thumb/3729270_1.jpg?v=1586375044)
Ohio newspaper extra attacking noted anti-slavery, Free Soil Party Congressman Joshua R. Giddings (1795–1864) of Ohio for abusing his Congressional travel mileage allowance. Cleverly using..... Read More about “Let Freemen Read!” Joshua R. Giddings’ Falsehoods Repelled! [opening lines of broadside...
![3726200] Died Jan. 17th, 1837 — Mrs. Elizabeth Coolidge, Aged 60 Years. [Elizabeth Bulfinch...](/pictures/thumb/3726200_1.jpg?v=1534362341)
An apparently unrecorded funeral memorial to Elizabeth Bulfinch Coolidge (1777–1837), sister to American architect, Charles Bulfinch. Elizabeth Coolidge was the daughter of Thomas Bulfinch and..... Read More about Died Jan. 17th, 1837 — Mrs. Elizabeth Coolidge, Aged 60 Years. [Elizabeth Bulfinch Coolidge,...
![3731919] Golden Pomegranates of Eden. Elizabeth Marney Conner, pseud. Paul Veronique](/pictures/thumb/3731919_1.jpg?v=1652910752)
Unrecorded and sole(?) edition of the feminist musings and declarations by this little-known author, with highly-spiritual and unusual beliefs. Elizabeth Marney Conner (pseud. Paul Veronique)..... Read More about Golden Pomegranates of Eden
![3733030] When Dallas became a City, Letters of John Milton McCoy, 1870-1881. (Signed, with...](/pictures/thumb/3733030_1.jpg?v=1679605655)
First trade edition. The transformation of Dallas “from a Southern country market town into a boom town” as revealed in the letters of attorney John..... Read More about When Dallas became a City, Letters of John Milton McCoy, 1870-1881. (Signed, with Prospectus
Limited to 100 copies in special binding with slipcase, signed by the editor and by Millicent Hume McCoy, who wrote the book’s foreword, and by..... Read More about When Dallas became a City, Letters of John Milton McCoy, 1870-1881. [Signed Limited Edition
![3728203] The Loyal Blacks. Ellen Gibson Wilson](/pictures/thumb/3728203_1.jpg?v=1544633438)
“The definitive account of the first American blacks emancipated in the Revolution, their return to Africa, and their creation of a new society there.” (dust..... Read More about The Loyal Blacks
![3729872] W.E.B. Du Bois: A Study in Minority Group Leadership. Elliott M. Rudwick](/pictures/thumb/3729872_1.jpg?v=1608257650)
First edition of Rudwick’s book explaining the difficult, often contentious, battle fought by W.E.B. Du Bois to seek racial equality and racial integration across all..... Read More about W.E.B. Du Bois: A Study in Minority Group Leadership
![3727324] W.E.B. Du Bois: Propagandist of the Negro Protest. Elliott M. Rudwick](/pictures/thumb/3727324_1.jpg?v=1542657644)
With a new Preface by Louis Harlan and an Epilogue by the author. The difficult, often contentious, battle fought by W.E.B. Du Bois to seek..... Read More about W.E.B. Du Bois: Propagandist of the Negro Protest
![3730299] [1950 Alfred A. Knopf Typed Letter Signed within:] Alfred A. Knopf. Quarter Century....](/pictures/thumb/3730299_1.jpg?v=1619039031)
With a 1950 TLS on Knopf’s lettehead writing to Earl E. Fisk writing of The Bedside Barsetshire, Trollope, booksellers and of “type [that is] difficult..... Read More about 1950 Alfred A. Knopf Typed Letter Signed within:] Alfred A. Knopf. Quarter Century
![3733106] Bathers. [Wood engraving by Emil Ganso]. Emil Ganso](/pictures/thumb/3733106_1.jpg?v=1675728442)
Large wood engraving of the “Bathers” by Emil Ganso (1895-1941), the German expatriate painter and printmaker who was part of the Woodstock, New York School..... Read More about Bathers. [Wood engraving by Emil Ganso
![3727862] Mary McLeod Bethune. Emma Gelders Sterne](/pictures/thumb/3727862_1.jpg?v=1542302139)
Juvenile biography of Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955), educator, organizer of African American women, and civil rights activist. “This is the challenging and inspired true story..... Read More about Mary McLeod Bethune
![3730649] T. Thomas Fortune: Militant Journalist. Emma Lou Thornbrough](/pictures/thumb/3730649_1.jpg?v=1625944808)
Inscribed and signed by John Hope Franklin, the noted historian and editor of this series. The biography of Timothy Thomas Fortune who was enslaved at..... Read More about T. Thomas Fortune: Militant Journalist
![3730574] Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization. Emmett J. Scott, Lyman Beecher Stowe](/pictures/thumb/3730574_1.jpg?v=1624502588)
Biography of educator, orator, U.S. presidential advisor, and race leader, Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), the founder of the Tuskegee Institute (HBCU) in Alabama. The biography..... Read More about Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization
![3733096] A Sermon, on the Divinity of Christ, Delivered August 13, 1815. To the Church and...](/pictures/thumb/3733096_1.jpg?v=1677280049)
First and sole edition of the very first literary production of this prolific author, clergyman, exponent of New England Theology and professor in Bangor Theological..... Read More about A Sermon, on the Divinity of Christ, Delivered August 13, 1815. To the Church and Congregation in...
![3726731] [World Expositions: Pocket Watches, Watchmakers:] Enrique Grandjean y Ca. Henri...](/pictures/thumb/3726731_1.jpg?v=1534362451)
Colorful and beautifully printed ephemera from Swiss luxury watchmakers Henri Grandjean & Cie.—here Enrique Grandjean y Ca.—of Le Locle in the Canton of Neuchâtel. The..... Read More about World Expositions: Pocket Watches, Watchmakers:] Enrique Grandjean y Ca
