Comprehensive history of the post-American Civil War Reconstruction era, from contemporary sources, by long-time Vanderbilt professor of history, Walter Lynwood Fleming (1874–1932). Fleming’s controversial approach..... Read More
Comprehensive history of elementary through college education for African Americans in Mississippi. The history was written by Prof. Charles H. Wilson, Sr., formerly of Mississippi’s..... Read More
1909 Souvenir program for the fifteenth annual Autumn parade of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, a philanthropic group founded to save the Nebraska State Fair from... Read More
Chapbook, likely reprinted from a circa 1830 Mahlon Day New York imprint, documenting 15 antebellum children’s games, sports, and pastimes. The text comprises a poetical... Read More
Panoramic photograph documenting the 15 finalists in the 1947 Miss America Pageant held at Convention Hall in the beach resort community of Atlantic City, New... Read More
Represented by a Baltimore agent, an early promotional color photo for this Washington. D.C. band founded in 1965. Known as “The Emperors of Go-Go” the..... Read More
Sensationally-titled, five-page lead article lead article in a popular inside-horse-racing magazine. Progressive, the author notes that there are black “hotwalkers, grooms and exercise boys” but..... Read More
Collection of 25 musical scores for American “Negro Spirituals” transcribed and arranged by American pianist, composer, arranger, and sheet music editor, Hugo Frey (1873–1952). The..... Read More
Single issue of the underground New York City newspaper, The East Village Other, featuring the headline article “Black Power in the Ghetto: two flags, a...... Read More
WWI-era poster calling on operators and workers “to assume the burden of producing an ample supply of coal” to win the war: “The existing scarcity..... Read More
The contribution of African-American men and women in the building of America. Du Bois dedicates chapters to black explorers, labor, soldiers, the “Freedom of Womanhood”..... Read More
“Henson, known as the ‘real Uncle Tom,’ was thought to be an imposter while he visited England before the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But..... Read More
Cash ledger book kept by two creditors of the Bank of New York from 1822 to 1827. In addition to containing about 10 pages of... Read More
First edition of this rare history of the first African Episcopal Church in America, St. Thomas Church in Philadelphia. Mounted opposite the title page is... Read More
Memoir of the first American abolition society; scarce to commerce and with no auction records found over the last thirty years. The compiler, Quaker Edward..... Read More
Scarce to commerce. Extreme, biting humor at the expense of presidential aspirant General Benjamin F. Butler (1818–1893), known as the “Beast” or “Beast Butler” whose..... Read More
Princeton College autograph album kept by Dr. Richard F. Sams (1838–1878), of Beaufort, South Carolina, Class of 1858. Sams’ album, kept from 1855 to 1858... Read More
1861 letter signed from Vermont Governor Erastus Fairbanks (1792–1864) to Assistant Secretary of War Col. Thomas A. Scott concerning uniforms, equipment, and rifles for the... Read More
Biography of this icon of the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s, made famous her refusal to give up her seat to a white... Read More
Photograph album documenting the steel mill and personnel of the Chicago-based Inland Steel Company, founded in 1893 by Jewish-American industrialists Joseph Block and his son... Read More
Post War of 1812 American political pamphlet on neutrality, foreign treaties, and laws “for preventing illegal outfits and piratical depredations” at sea. The work has..... Read More
Declaration of association signed by 51 Philadelphia merchants or firms against “Agents of European houses trading to this Country…” The merchants state plainly that these..... Read More
Antebellum bottle on indelible ink for marking textiles manufactured by A. Lyman Williston (b.1834) of Northampton, Massachusetts, a noted temperance and anti-slavery advocate and benefactor... Read More
Rare American Civil War-era pamphlet urging an alliance between France and the Confederate States of America by Louisiana-born, francophone physician and writer Alfred Mercier. Mercier’s..... Read More
1952 Segregation-era movie theater poster from the Schine Theatre in Milford, Delaware. Located near the coast of Southern Delaware, the poster bears the legend: “The... Read More
![Documentary History of Reconstruction. Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time. With facsimiles. [two volumes]. Walter L. Fleming, 1874–1932, 1906–1980 Bell Irvin Wiley, Walter Lynwood Fleming, Bell I. Wiley.](/pictures/thumb/3728438_1.jpg?v=1551136082)
![[Mardi Gras-like Parade Floats:] Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, The Drama, Omaha, September 29 to October 9. [cover title]. Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben.](/pictures/thumb/3728433_1.jpg?v=1551119227)
![Miss America Pageant Convention Hall, Atlantic City, N.J….1947 [caption title of panoramic photo]. photographers Central Studios, Barbara Jo Walker, 1926–2000, Miss America Pageant.](/pictures/thumb/3728430_1.jpg?v=1551121814)
![Young Senators [Promo Photo for Washington D.C. Funk and R&B Band]. Young Senators.](/pictures/thumb/3728429_1.jpg?v=1551121813)
![Are Negros Banned from Racing? [within:] Turf Confidential. Mark Millerick.](/pictures/thumb/3728428_1.jpg?v=1551119225)
![Ishmael Reed’s “Black Power in the Ghetto: two flags, a stepladder, and a megaphone” [within The East Village Other]. Ishmael Reed, John Wilcock, b.1938.](/pictures/thumb/3728425_1.jpg?v=1551121812)
![Mine More Coal, President Wilson Demands Coal to Win the War. [caption title]. Woodrow Wilson, United States Fuel Administration, 1856–1924.](/images/noimage-req.png)
![[Autograph Book Kept by South Carolinian Richard Fuller Sams, Princeton Class of 1858, Confederate Veteran]. Richard F. Sams, 1838–1878, Richard Fuller Sams.](/pictures/thumb/3728329_1.jpg?v=1551119222)
![[1861 Civil War LS from Vermont Governor Erastus Fairbanks concerning the 4th and 5th Vermont Regiments, to Assistant Secretary of War in charge of Railroad and Telegraph Lines, Col. Thomas A. Scott]. Erastus Fairbanks, 1792–1864, 1823–1881 Thomas Alexander Scott, Col. T. A. Scott.](/pictures/thumb/3728257_1.jpg?v=1551119222)
![Rosa Parks: My Story. [Signed by Rosa Parks]. Rosa Parks, with Jim Haskins.](/pictures/thumb/3727568_1.jpg?v=1552928941)
![[1790 Philadelphia Merchants’ and Importers’ Declaration of Association against European Agents].](/pictures/thumb/3725386_1.jpg?v=1550009145)
![[Segregation-era, rainbow-printed movie theater poster:] It’s Movie Time U.S.A. Beautiful New Milford, A Schine Theatre…Burlesque in Harlem…The Shore’s Most Comfortable Balcony Section for Colored Patrons. Schine Theatre.](/pictures/thumb/3728399_1.jpg?v=1548871662)