A psychological and sociological study of African Americans living in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The text discusses slavery, the “psychological environment” of..... Read More about St. Thomas Negroes — A Study of Personality and Culture. [Psychological Monographs, Vol. 55, No. 5
Sweeping novel of the post-Civil War history of African Americans told through the eyes of a fictional woman character, Beulah Jackson. Author, Dr. Charles H...... Read More about Historical Romance of the American Negro
An early 20th century survey of the state of African Americans in the United States written by seven leading African American intellectuals in the fields..... Read More about The Negro Problem. A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of To-Day
The critically-acclaimed, second autobiography of Booker T. Washington, African American educator, author, orator, and first principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, today Tuskegee University (HBCU)..... Read More about Up from Slavery. An Autobiography
Well-illustrated survey of African American business success and enterprise in the first decade of the 20th century by black educator, author, and orator, Booker T...... Read More about The Negro in Business
Anthology of poetry edited by William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), African American mixed race poet, literary critic, and some-time professor at Atlanta University. “Braithwaite’s perceptive and..... Read More about Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1958… and Anthology of Poems from the Seventeen Previously...
Unrecorded, illustrated catalog of churches and other public and private buildings with turret or tower clocks manufactured by J.B. Joyce & Co., Shropshire, England clockmakers..... Read More about Church & Turret Clocks Manufactured by J.B. Joyce & Co., Whitchurch, Shropshire. [cover...
Book-length exposition of the sources and facts underlying the fictional narrative of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s enormously influential anti-slavery novel first published in..... Read More about A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story Is...
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“[A] sympathetic account of freed slaves during the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War.” (ANB) Inscribed by the author. First published in 1944..... Read More about Freedom Road. [Inscribed by the Author; W.E.B. Du Bois Foreword
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Poetical and prose anthology of love, marriage and the married life, arranged and anthologized by a married woman. The slim volume, bound in nuptial white..... Read More about Married Life. A Blessing to the Truly Married. [Pre-WWI dust jacket
Important and long-lived abolitionist literary annual or gift book edited by Maria W. Chapman and published by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair sponsored by the Boston..... Read More about The Liberty Bell. By Friends of Freedom. [1856: Elizabeth Barrett Browning; William Lloyd...
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Collection of trade catalogs featuring silver, silverware, and jewelry designed by Danish silversmith, Georg Jensen (1866–1935). The silver objects are here marketed by the Danish..... Read More about Collection of Georg Jensen Silver Catalogs and Price Lists
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Gouache painting ca. 1898 showing Uncle Sam declaring War against Spain, i.e. The Spanish-American War. American war vessels with large gun emplacements, and tall smokestacks..... Read More about War I Say [caption title of Spanish-American War-Era Uncle Sam Painting
Well-illustrated history of African Americans in the First World War—96 pages of half tone illustrations and portraits—written by an African American. Includes Prefaces by General..... Read More about Scott’s Official History of The American Negro in the World War
An 1808 Bond and Articles of Agreement between Luke Prouty and his “natural mother,” Susanna Prouty, both of Salem, Washington County, in the upstate Hudson..... Read More about 1808 Washington County, New York Manuscript Bond and Articles of Agreement between a Son and His...
Important account of Reconstruction in Mississippi written by an African American participant there at the time, John R. Lynch, former U.S. Congressman, 1873–1877 and 1882–1883..... Read More about Facts of Reconstruction
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Sound and presentable copy of this adult adventure in which “Baum’s hero is a half-Persian, half-American Muslim who marries the Christian American heroine, with no..... Read More about Daughters of Destiny [L. Frank Baum Pseudonym
Portfolio of just over 225 original drawings of parlor furniture and furniture suites made for furniture frame makers Gottlieb Buehler & Co. of Allentown, Pennsylvania..... Read More about Gottlieb Buehler & Co., Allentown, Pennsylvania; Portfolio of Parlor Furniture Drawings,...
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Oversized studio portrait photograph of an African American man, hand-colored and signed with a flourish on the verso by the artist/photographer, “Klein.” This attractive image..... Read More about C. 1920s Hand Colored Large-Format Photograph of African American Gentleman in Bowler Hat
Two retained copies of letters from David Wolfe (1758–1836), former American Revolutionary Quartermaster Officer, to Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Wolfe accuses Hamilton’s then..... Read More about 1792–1793 Two Retained Copies of Autograph Letters Signed from David Wolfe to Alexander...
Manuscript copy of a major address on labor and capital by Wendell Phillips, celebrated American abolitionist, orator, and reformer. Phillips’ December 1865 address, “The Eight..... Read More about “The Eight Hour Movement,” an Address by Wendell Phillips, Tremont Temple. Dec 21, 1865...
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First nine volumes of the collected speeches and outgoing and incoming letters of Booker T. Washington (1856?–1915), educator, orator, African American civic leader, and author..... Read More about The Booker T. Washington Papers [9 volumes (of 14
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Collected letters of newspaper editor, reformer, and seminal American abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison from 1822, at age 17, to his death in 1879. “[M]ost historians..... Read More about The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison [6 volume set complete
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First two volumes—eight issues in all—of Phylon, a quarterly academic journal dedicated to issues of race and culture from an African American perspective, edited by..... Read More about Phylon, The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture [Volumes I and II
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
