Two humorously illustrated letters sent to a schoolgirl in Pennsylvania from a young married couple in Salem, Oregon, Frank L. Willman, Sr. and Etta Willman... Read More about 1892 and 1893, Two Humorously Illustrated Letters by Frank and Etta Willman of Salem, Oregon, One...
A history of African-American physicians and their exclusion from white medical associations until well into the 20th century. Dr. William Montague Cobb (1904-1990) was the... Read More about The First Negro Medical Society. A History of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of...
Historical and thematic study of African American newspaper publishing with an emphasis on civil rights and issues of race. Discusses such newspapers as Samuel Cornish’s..... Read More about The Negro Press in the United States
![The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Inscribed Copy]. Francis Butler Simkins,...](/pictures/thumb/3728813_1.jpg?v=1561563387)
Study of white supremacist South Carolina politician and later Democratic governor and U.S. Senator, Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918), and the popular movement he championed. This copy..... Read More about The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Inscribed Copy
![Doctor Dillard of the Jeanes Fund. [Doubly Inscribed Copy]. Benjamin Brawley, Anson Phelps...](/pictures/thumb/3728812_1.jpg?v=1561563386)
Biography of James H. Dillard, educator and first president of the Negro Rural School Fund—also known as the Jeanes Foundation, established by Quaker philanthropist Anna..... Read More about Doctor Dillard of the Jeanes Fund. [Doubly Inscribed Copy
“American Negro Slavery (1918), the first systematic analysis of slavery in the entire South, made Phillips the unexcelled authority on the ‘peculiar institution.’ Its use..... Read More about American Negro Slavery. A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as...
Study of African American college educational opportunities and student preparatory requirements, signed by its author, J. Irving E. Scott, Ph.D., the Dean of Alcorn A.&M..... Read More about Negro Students & Their Colleges
First-hand account of the bloody Battle of San Juan Hill by Private John H. Everhart of the 71st Regiment, New York Volunteers. Everhart mentions encountering... Read More about 1898 ALS on the Battle of San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish American War and mentioning...
Scarce. Anti-abortion pamphlet by a prominent California physician and medical editor, Dr. Henry Gibbons, Sr.(1808–1884). Using the term feticide—the killing of a fetus, Gibbons decries..... Read More about On Feticide
![The Midwest Journal, A Magazine of Research and Creative Writing [First Issue Published]. Lois...](/pictures/thumb/3728790_1.jpg?v=1561563384)
Very first issue of this short-lived periodical (1948 to 1956) publishing a variety of African American luminaries such as Langston Hughes and Dudley F. Randall... Read More about The Midwest Journal, A Magazine of Research and Creative Writing [First Issue Published
Important non-fiction work by African American novelist Richard Wright (1908–1960), a sociological-psychological treatise tracing the history of blacks in America, “...those teeming black millions who..... Read More about 12 Million Black Voices, A Folk History of the Negro in the United States [Walker Evans, Dorothea...
Unrecorded c.1887 large-format, illustrated circus songster published in New York City by Henry J. Wehman, “Publisher of Penny Ballads, Song Sheets, Song Books, German Songs..... Read More about Clown’s Giant Circus Songster. Extra Edition. [opening lines of broadside/propsectus
![Worth Keeping. A Directory of Atlantic City, N.J. [caption title]. The Galbraith Apothecary](/pictures/thumb/3728783_1.jpg?v=1561563382)
Hotel and cottage directory of the popular Victorian summer resort town of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Includes a list of hotels and other prominent buildings... Read More about Worth Keeping. A Directory of Atlantic City, N.J. [caption title
“Du Bois accepted an appointment as chair of the sociology department at Atlanta University, where he had already been teaching as a visiting professor during..... Read More about Dusk of Dawn. An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept. [Romare Bearden, Illustrator
Small archive of correspondence, financial documents, and papers kept by the Lancaster Bicycle Club of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. All dating from 1889, the collection covers such... Read More about 1889 Lancaster Bicycle Club of Pennsylvania, Small Archive of Printed Matter, Correspondence,...
Publisher’s album of color illustrated dust jacket samples issued by Philadelphia publisher, John C. Winston and Company. The c.1947–1954 album likely served as a visual..... Read More about C.1947–1954 Philadelphia Publisher John C. Winston Co. Dust Jacket Album or Salesperson’s Dummy
Curious American religious notebook containing three sermons on verses from the Gospel of John—two in Welsh and one in English—and what appear to be financial..... Read More about Notebook with Welsh and English-Language Sermons and Financial Accounts of Welsh-Americans from...
Autobiographical memoir, apparently unpublished, concerning the beginnings of Methodism in Dorchester on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Discussing the progress of the Second Great Awakening... Read More about Handwritten Autobiographical Memoir of 18th Century Beginnings of Methodism in Dorchester on the...
Rare contemporary political cartoon depicting the dramatic discovery in October 1846 of George Kirk, an escaped slave from Savannah, Georgia. Kirk had been the subject... Read More about Arrest of the Slave George Kirk
![Frederick Douglass Autograph Sentiment]. Frederick Douglass](/pictures/thumb/3728361_1.jpg?v=1561565596)
Autograph sentiment by the great African American orator, author, and reformer. In this year, 1892, Douglass would revise his third autobiography, Life and Times of... Read More about Frederick Douglass Autograph Sentiment
![The Ordeal of Mansart. [Presentation Copy]. W E. B. Du Bois, 1868–1963](/pictures/thumb/3728324_1.jpg?v=1561563379)
A W.E.B. Du Bois novel, the first in The Black Flame trilogy, a story that follows one African-American family from Reconstruction Era up to the..... Read More about The Ordeal of Mansart. [Presentation Copy
Autographed by the author, a former slave, beneath his photographic portrait. Bruner was the slave of a cruel tanner, a man possibly his father, who... Read More about A Slave’s Adventures Toward Freedom: Not Fiction, but the True Story of a Struggle
Autobiographical vignettes from former slaves, many obscure individuals, who found freedom from slavery by escaping to Canada. These former slaves’s vignettes, numbering over one hundred..... Read More about The Refugee: or the Narratives of the Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by themselves, with an...
![Dark Companion. [Signed by African American Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson and the Author]....](/pictures/thumb/3728169_1.jpg?v=1561563376)
Biography of African American explorer Matthew A. Henson (1866–1955), credited as the first man to reach the North Pole. This copy signed by Henson and... Read More about Dark Companion. [Signed by African American Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson and the Author
First Edition of McCune Smith’s 1841 pamphlet, a carefully-documented history wherein he sought to clarify the importance of the Saint Domingue revolution, especially for black..... Read More about A Lecture on the Haytien Revolutions; with a sketch of the character of Toussaint L’Ouverture....
