![Rosa Parks et al.] West Chester Area School District & Community Presents Past, Present and...](/pictures/thumb/3732001_1.jpg?v=1655066045)
Black History Month school program celebrating civil rights and with the event’s guests of honor being activists, Rosa L. Parks, Fred D. Gray, and Martin..... Read More about Rosa Parks et al.] West Chester Area School District & Community Presents Past, Present and...
![Blacks on John Brown. [Inscribed and signed by Benjamin Quarles]. Benjamin Quarles](/pictures/thumb/3731999_1.jpg?v=1655066045)
Inscribed and signed by Benjamin Quarles, editor and a noted authority on African American history. With a 7-page introduction and single-page commentary by Quarles at..... Read More about Blacks on John Brown. [Inscribed and signed by Benjamin Quarles
This 54th Street Theatre Broadway flop was set in a Western African nation as it was about the gain independence from Britain. While the dances..... Read More about Kwamina. The New Musical
The New York Times described the event thus: “Women will be whooping it up tonight at 9 in the Manhattan Theater Club, 321 East 73d..... Read More about A Circle of Sound. An Evening of Songs Composed and Sung by Women
A charming and fairly-accomplished drawing of the main residence at Thorpland, Upper Marlboro, Prince George’s County, Maryland. Whimsically, the artist (“E.C.J.” – signing lower left)..... Read More about Thorpland Plantation, Prince George’s County, Maryland. (1910 Original Pencil Drawing
A Lancaster, native, John Wilkes Kittera (1752–1801, was a Princeton graduate, Philadelphia lawyer, district attorney for eastern Pennsylvania, and Congressman. Kittera’s letter notes that he..... Read More about 1799 Autograph Letter Signed by John Wilkes Kittera mentioning his role in the impeachment trial...
Ephemeral program featuring performances by the Banjo Club and the Mandolin Club of the University of Pennsylvania. Twelve pieces were performed, the last being “Hail!..... Read More about University of Pennsylvania. Combined Musical Clubs
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Salesman’s sample book offering two versions of this popular P.T. Barnum biography: a de luxe version in “Full Morocco” and a less expensive alternative in..... Read More about Canvassing Book:] Life of Barnum the World-Renowned Showman. ... Written by Himself. To which is...
An interesting question is raised, was a song performed by the Mask and Wig the origin for a soon-after national hit? That Bobby Troup wrote..... Read More about Out of This World. 54th Annual Production. The Mask and Wig Club. University of Pennsylvania...
Bookmark-sized handbill for patent medicine headache and dyspepsia pills manufactured by the Brown Chemical Co. of Baltimore. The company’s snappy catch phrase “Ihr konnt kurirt..... Read More about Dr. Mettaur’s Kopfweh - und Dyspepsia - Pillen
Sole edition. Predecessor to a landmark Antitrust decision. In 1902, President Roosevelt ordered Attorney General Philander C. Knox to challenge the merger between Northern Pacific..... Read More about The Decision in the “Merger Case” being A Review of the Decision of the United States Circuit...
Rather scarce illustrated text aimed at those interested in joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation or knowing more of it. Illustrations show agents-in-training throwing one..... Read More about Personnel Selection and Training in the FBI
Hunter’s book is notable for defining urban Black communities as an environment for potential success rather than one endemic to failure. Winner the Council on..... Read More about The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou
One of a series of studies of “so-called Negro problems” co-edited by sociologist and academic W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) and his student, Augustus Granville Dill..... Read More about The Negro American Artisan
First edition? (A 14-page ed. was issued the same year in Boston by Rand & Avery, no priority known). Less than six months after the..... Read More about The National Security and the National Faith. Guarantees for the National Freedman and National...
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Rare. According to Arndt and Eck, printed in German and English by Conrad Zentler of Philadelphia. The English caption title reads: “Professorship of German literature..... Read More about Professorstelle der Deutschen Literatur [and] Professorship of German Literature and Science
First edition? (A 21-page ed. was issued the same year in Boston by Wright & Potter). Less than six months after the Civil War had..... Read More about The National Security and the National Faith. Guaranties [sic] for the National Freedman and...
Autographed by Major Allen Washington, Cadet Commander, this certificate appoints Algernon Cooper as a 2nd lieutenant in the Cadet Battalion of Hampton Normal and Agricultural..... Read More about The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. Hampton, Virginia. Battalion of Cadets…
A handsome example of this scarce Depression-era California phone book. Printed in three columns, names, addresses, and phone numbers for residential and commercial entities, some..... Read More about Telephone Directory. Sacramento. Amador, Butte, El Dorado, Nevada Placer, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba...
![Sea Legs. [Flappers-era ABC’s Book]. Oliver Herford](/pictures/thumb/3731974_1.jpg?v=1654297605)
First edition after publication in The Delineator, also issued in wrappers. A charmingly-illustrated ABC’s of Flappers-era life and leisure on the high seas. “A is..... Read More about Sea Legs. [Flappers-era ABC’s Book
![$100 Prize Essays. How and What to Grow in the South for Northern Markets… [opening lines]....](/pictures/thumb/3731962_1.jpg?v=1654369618)
Four prize essays written by J.E. Rue of Littleton, North Carolina, James Moss of Westminster, Orange County, California (2), and George F. Roessler of Philadelphia..... Read More about $100 Prize Essays. How and What to Grow in the South for Northern Markets… [opening lines
Profusely illustrated, an important exhibition catalog on Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first Black American artist to attain international distinction. Born in Pennsylvania, Tanner is known..... Read More about Henry Ossawa Tanner
Widely-known as a prominent landscape architect, and the designer of New York’s Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted also wrote three books on his impressions of..... Read More about A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy
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Scarce first edition of Jack Donovan’s autobiography, issued simultaneously in cloth. Donovan’s autobiography begins with a stark catalog of vice: (1) A thief from earliest..... Read More about Cons and Cheats:] Out of the Depths. The Redemption of Jack Donovan. The Boy Thief, the...
Biography of Robert Russa Moton (1867–1940) who worked at Hampton Institute and then became the long-time Tuskegee Institute principal and successor to Booker T. Washington..... Read More about Robert Russa Moton of Hampton and Tuskegee
