![Ephemera Collection for “Club 13,” a Private African-American Social Club in Philadelphia]....](/pictures/thumb/3731181_1.jpg?v=1634827881)
Nine ephemeral items for musical concerts and theme dances in Philadelphia sponsored by Club 13. The club appears to have included many women in active..... Read More about Ephemera Collection for “Club 13,” a Private African-American Social Club in Philadelphia
A rare survival, and rare Alpha Phi Alpha ephemeron; an invitation for the 21st Annual Relay prom. “In addition to just the frivolities, these latter..... Read More about 1941 Invitation Card from Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity to attend the Twenty-First Anniversary Relay...
![The Desperate Need for Black Teachers. A Special Appeal from John Hope Franklin. [caption title]....](/pictures/thumb/3731146_1.jpg?v=1634827879)
Separately issued circular reprinting historian and academic John Hope Franklin’s essay expressing alarm over the “decrease in minorities in the teaching profession…at a time when..... Read More about The Desperate Need for Black Teachers. A Special Appeal from John Hope Franklin. [caption title
Autobiography written by this important Black feminist preacher. Foote’s text “attacks racism and other social abuses, the subordination of women, especially in the spiritual realm..... Read More about A Brand Plucked from the Fire. An Autobiographical Sketch by Mrs. Julia A.J. Foote
![Free Soil Party] Addresses and Proceedings of the State Independent Free Territory Convention of...](/pictures/thumb/3731041_1.jpg?v=1634827875)
Proceedings and anti-slavery resolutions adopted by the 1848 Ohio Free Territory Convention of the newly formed “Free Soil” Party. The party met in Columbus to..... Read More about Free Soil Party] Addresses and Proceedings of the State Independent Free Territory Convention of...
Anti-slavery speech to a Whig convention by Josiah Quincy, Sr., former Federalist congressman, mayor of Boston, and president of Harvard College. Presented by Quincy to..... Read More about Speech delivered by Hon. Josiah Quincy, Senior, before the Whig State Convention, assembled at...
![Let My People Live. [Original 16mm film for 1938 WPA Tuskegee Institute Movie]. Director Edgar...](/pictures/thumb/3730998_1.jpg?v=1634827873)
Original 16mm public health film starring an all-Black cast and directed at young African American audiences to encourage tuberculosis testing and treatment. In this drama..... Read More about Let My People Live. [Original 16mm film for 1938 WPA Tuskegee Institute Movie
The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas protect its slaveholders and extinguish the rights of African Americans from its bill of rights. Here..... Read More about Proceedings of the Union Anti-Lecompton Mass Meeting of the Citizens of Erie County, N.Y. Opposed...
Scarce. Autobiography of Lewis Garnett Jordan (1853–1939) which describes his life of enslavement before the War and just after. Born in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Jordan’s..... Read More about On Two Hemispheres: Bits from the Life Story of Lewis G. Jordan, as Told by Himself
Frederick Douglass’s second of three autobiographies and “what is probably the best eyewitness account of American slavery. In addition to graphic descriptions of slavery and..... Read More about My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I-Life as a Slave. Part II-Life as a Freeman
Letter by a young Royal Air Force trainee, Kenneth, likely Kenneth Brian Boyd Cross (1911–2003) who trained at the RAF depot at Uxbridge in 1930..... Read More about 1931 Royal Air Force Letter by Future Air Chief Marshal Sir Kenneth Brian Boyd “Bing” Cross...
Victorian Female Journalist vs. Same. Elizabeth Bisland’s 1891 account of her “race around-the-world” to beat another “Elizabeth” —Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman— better known as Nelly Bly..... Read More about A Flying Trip Around the World ... In Seven Stages
War-date letters on the death of Wainwright A. Merrill, the first soldier to enlist from Cambridge, Massachusetts and one of the first Americans to die..... Read More about Two Letters on the Death of Underage WWI Soldier Wainwright A. Merrill, an American from...
An attack on President Andrew Jackson’s “spoils system” and his “Office Harpies” by Mary Chase Barney, an outspoken Baltimorean, and later magazine-founder and editor. After..... Read More about Mrs. Barney’s Letter, To Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, in reply to one from...
![Presentation copy in deluxe binding with author’s photograph] Jottings of a Year’s Sojourn in...](/pictures/thumb/3730925_1.jpg?v=1634220250)
Author’s presentation copy in a de luxe binding with his albumen portrait photograph (1¾ x 1½ inches) mounted on the leaf opposite title page. A...... Read More about Presentation copy in deluxe binding with author’s photograph] Jottings of a Year’s Sojourn in...
Unrecorded barber’s compendium of diseases with chapters on bathing and hygiene. Includes over 230 recipes for treating various ailments and skin conditions and the preparation..... Read More about The Barbers’ Compend. A Complete Compend of Diseases of the Scalp and Face, Their Appearance,...
Unrecorded and rare. A quite remarkable example given that this oversized 1933 trade catalog was sent folded through the mail to Metropolitan Billiards on Randolph..... Read More about Liquor Glassware for Whiskey-Wine and Cordial Service. Also Miscellaneous Bar Supplies [cover title
Summary view of Confederate foreign policy in 1863 by Henry St. Paul, a Mobile and New Orleans attorney and Confederate soldier. After the Union capture..... Read More about Our Home and Foreign Policy. November, 1863
![WWII Military Police (MP) Training Archive kept by a Soldier at Fort Custer, Michigan]. Pvt....](/pictures/thumb/3730737_1.jpg?v=1634220240)
A well-focused study collection on Second World War military police training, in preparation for the military occupation of Europe, with over 1000 pages of printed..... Read More about WWII Military Police (MP) Training Archive kept by a Soldier at Fort Custer, Michigan
![Perils in the Wilderness (or The Rescue of Two Lady Missionaries). [ephemera laid in]. G. Findlay...](/pictures/thumb/3730690_1.jpg?v=1634220239)
Harrowing account of the rescue of two women missionaries captured by Mongolian bandits in Gansu and Shaanxi Provinces, China, told by their rescuer. Helen Hayward..... Read More about Perils in the Wilderness (or The Rescue of Two Lady Missionaries). [ephemera laid in
Rare 1940 Omega Psi Phi Invitation with printed ticket for a costumed party held during the Second World War at the Mercantile Ballroom and sponsored..... Read More about 1940 Invitation Card from Omega Psi Phi Gay Nineties Ball
Christmas greeting to Phyllis Carr signed by her family and friends in England, many with connections to American expatriate painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) and..... Read More about Christmas Greeting Autographed by Members of the Circle of John Singer Sargent
“Free Trade, Free Labor, Free Soil, Free Speech and Free Men.” Albany pamphlet issued as a newspaper “Extra” of the Albany Atlas, publishing the anti-slavery..... Read More about Herkimer Convention. The Voice of New York! Proceedings of the Herkimer Mass Convention of Oct....
“Slavery was a social and an economic institution of such power that it sustained and extended an economic system whose demands went far to determine..... Read More about Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia
Biography of abolitionist Thomas Garrett (1789–1871) of Wilmington, Delaware, Underground Railroad Station Master and working colleague of celebrated Underground Railroad Conductor Harriet Tubman (c.1822–1913). Includes..... Read More about Station Master on the Underground Railroad. The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett
