Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace.
Thoughts on post-war peace by this noted African American sociologist, historian, and Pan-Africanist, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963), published in what were the waning months of..... Read More
Recent Acquisitions
Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Conference. Cairo, December 26, 1957-January 1, 1958.
Proceedings of an international conference held in Cairo of political leaders from 45 Afro-Asian countries. Includes reports from Egypt, Soviet Russia, India, Syria, Japan, communist... Read More
President Lincoln’s Attitude toward Slavery and Emancipation. With a Review of Events Before and Since the Civil War.
Assessment of Abraham Lincoln’s mind on the questions of slavery and the emancipation of 3.5 million enslaved African Americans, published just over 50 years after... Read More
![Lincoln and the Negro. [Inscribed by Author]. Benjamin Quarles, 1904–1996.](/pictures/thumb/3728030_1.jpg?v=1545088713)
Lincoln and the Negro. [Inscribed by Author]
“Lincoln became Lincoln because of the Negro, and it was the latter who first reflected the image of the Lincoln that was to live.” (Author’s..... Read More
Lincoln in the Telegraph Office. Recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps During the Civil War.
The author, who formerly had worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, served as a cipher-operator and was the Manager of the War Department Telegraph Office, 1861–1866... Read More
![The Emancipation Proclamation. [Inscribed by Author]. John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009.](/pictures/thumb/3728026_1.jpg?v=1546963424)
The Emancipation Proclamation. [Inscribed by Author]
Centennial history of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation which freed 3.5 million enslaved African Americans. The “evolution of the document in the mind of Lincoln..... Read More
Lincoln & The Politics of Slavery.
Study of Abraham Lincoln’s pre-presidency and his evolving political positions on the issue of slavery. With a handy “Political Calendar” providing a digest of Lincoln’s..... Read More
![Lincoln’s Preparation for Greatness. The Illinois Legislative Years. [Inscribed by Author]. Paul Simon, 1928–2003.](/pictures/thumb/3728023_1.jpg?v=1544633427)
Lincoln’s Preparation for Greatness. The Illinois Legislative Years. [Inscribed by Author]
A study of Abraham Lincoln’s four terms in the Illinois legislature, 1834–1842. With bookplate of Lincoln enthusiast, Robert J. Sommerfield of East Peoria, Illinois.¹ Inscribed..... Read More
![[Standard Abraham Lincoln Bibliography:] Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library…Lincoln Bibliography 1839–1939. [Two Volume Set]. Jay Monaghan, 1891–1980.](/pictures/thumb/3728022_1.jpg?v=1544633426)
[Standard Abraham Lincoln Bibliography:] Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library…Lincoln Bibliography 1839–1939. [Two Volume Set]
The standard bibliography on Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth U.S. President, “Great Emancipator” of slaves, and hero-martyr of the American Civil War. “Five major bibliographies have appeared..... Read More
The Human Way. Addresses on Race Problems at the Southern Sociological Congress Atlanta, 1913.
Quite scarce. Compilation of addresses on contemporary economic, political, educational, and social issues affecting African Americans. These 17 talks were delivered at the second Southern... Read More
![Denver Fun Map [cover title]. Entertainment Advertising Company.](/pictures/thumb/3727772_1.jpg?v=1544633425)
Denver Fun Map [cover title].
Exuberant 1950s promotional brochure for the restaurants, supper clubs, cocktail bars and night clubs of Denver, Colorado. A pictorial, stylized map of Denver indicates the... Read More
![[Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Japan. Imperial Government Railways Travelers’ Handy Guide 1915. Imperial Government Railways.](/pictures/thumb/3727620_1.jpg?v=1544633423)
[Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Japan. Imperial Government Railways Travelers’ Handy Guide 1915.
English-language travel guide to early Taishō-era Japan, issued by the Japanese Imperial Government Railways and specially published for distribution to visitors to the Panama-Pacific International..... Read More
![TAOS—-worth a trip across a continent! The Don Fernando Hotel. Taos, New Mexico. [cover title]. The Don Fernando Hotel.](/pictures/thumb/3727610_1.jpg?v=1544633422)
TAOS—-worth a trip across a continent! The Don Fernando Hotel. Taos, New Mexico. [cover title]
C.1930s travel brochure for Taos, New Mexico issued by The Don Fernando Hotel, named for late 17th and early 18th century Spanish Conquistador, Don Fernando..... Read More
The Church of Saint Peter in the Great Valley, 1700-1940. The Story of a Colonial Country Parish in Pennsylvania.
Authoritative 240-year history of this Pennsylvania church. Richmond: August Dietz, 91944]. 165pp. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with plates. Publisher’s red cloth, without dust jacket. Spine..... Read More
![[1928 Woodcut Bookplate by J.J. Lankes for the Library of William Sloane Kinney.]. Lankes, 1884–1960, Julius John Lankes, William Sloane Kinney.](/pictures/thumb/3726728_1.jpg?v=1544633421)
[1928 Woodcut Bookplate by J.J. Lankes for the Library of William Sloane Kinney.]
Bookplate of William Sloane Kinney designed and executed by noted illustrator, woodcut artist, and bookplate designer J.J. Lankes (1884–1960). The bookplate depicts a colossal man..... Read More
![[17th Century Pennsylvania Indenture of Richard Halliwell of Newcastle and Hannah Blake of Philadelphia conveying Land in Chester County, Pennsylvania to Thomas Cartwrite]. Richard Halliwell, Hannah Blake.](/pictures/thumb/3724844_1.jpg?v=1544633418)
[17th Century Pennsylvania Indenture of Richard Halliwell of Newcastle and Hannah Blake of Philadelphia conveying Land in Chester County, Pennsylvania to Thomas Cartwrite].
Seventeenth-century Pennsylvania indenture conveying 250 acres of land on Chester Creek in Chester County originally deeded to Edward Blake by William Penn, Propriatary and Governor... Read More
![[African American Prisoners] Eighth Annual Report of William J. Mullen, Prison Agent, to The Philadelphia Society, for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons…January 1, 1862. Prison Agent William J. Mullen, 1805–1882.](/pictures/thumb/3724800_1.jpg?v=1546963420)
[African American Prisoners] Eighth Annual Report of William J. Mullen, Prison Agent, to The Philadelphia Society, for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons…January 1, 1862.
Report to The Philadelphia Society, for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons by its Prison Agent, William J. Mullen. It discusses the insane in prison... Read More
![Education in the Early Navy. A Dissertation… [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]. Henry L. Burr.](/pictures/thumb/3728164_1.jpg?v=1544054958)
Education in the Early Navy. A Dissertation… [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]
History of the education of U.S. Navy officers from 1775 to 1845, before the founding of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Chapter headings... Read More
Through Afro-America. An English Reading of the Race Problem.
Clark, New South (t.p. illustrated) II:6 — “[Archer] seemed unable to divest himself of certain English attitudes. His position on race is indicated by his..... Read More
Slavery in Kentucky 1792-1865.
“This study is an attempt to give a connected and concise account of the institution of slavery as it existed in the State of Kentucky..... Read More
A Side-Light on Anglo-American Relations, 1839-1858: Furnished by the Correspondence of Lewis Tappan and Others with the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
The Tappan Papers; correspondence between noted New York abolitionist Lewis Tappan and other important figures from the 19th-century anti-slavery movement. The present work is described... Read More
![Pioneers of Long Ago. [Lois Mailou Jones, Illustrator]. Jessie Hailstalk Roy, Geneva Calcier Turner.](/pictures/thumb/3728182_1.jpg?v=1545174819)
Pioneers of Long Ago. [Lois Mailou Jones, Illustrator]
With compelling illustrations by Lois Mailou Jones, an American history book for African American youth, written by two African American women from Washington, D.C. Each..... Read More
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839.
Pierce Butler was a Georgia-born Philadelphian whose marriage to British actress Fanny Kemble was in discord as his ownership of Southern slaves clashed with her... Read More
![Centennial Celebration of Lincoln’s Birthday at Lincoln University, Pa ... February 12, 1909. [opening lines of small broadside]. Various.](/pictures/thumb/3728174_1.jpg?v=1546963428)
Centennial Celebration of Lincoln’s Birthday at Lincoln University, Pa ... February 12, 1909. [opening lines of small broadside]
Unrecorded and modestly illustrated broadside celebrating Lincoln’s birthday at 100 years. Lincoln was born near Hodgenville, Kentucky in 1809. Here, at Lincoln University, the activities... Read More
Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition.
From slavery to emancipation, popular Civil War era fiction written by this Gloucester, Massachusetts native about the emancipated male African American slave “Peculiar Institution”, a.k.a...... Read More