![Rare 1922 Souvenir Program for:] The Cosmopolitan Corporation presents Marion Davies in “When...](/images/noimage-req.png)
Rare cinema theater program for the 1922 silent film, When Knighthood Was in Flower, directed by Robert G. Vignola and starring Marion Davies in the..... Read More about Rare 1922 Souvenir Program for:] The Cosmopolitan Corporation presents Marion Davies in “When...
Very rare. Genealogy of seven branches of the Tyson Family, 1683 Quaker emigrants from England via Germany to William Penn’s Province of Pennsylvania. The Tysons..... Read More about Genealogy of the Maryland Branch of the Tyson Family. [bound, printed typescript
Journal with 14 handwritten pages. Short entries on each page record mortgage bonds, capital stock, and interest payments of the Canal Railroad Company of Elmira..... Read More about 1882–1889 manuscript journal of the Canal Railroad Company of Elmira, New York
First and sole edition. Jacob Tileston Brown (1863–1947) was among the first Black American ministers to write Sunday school literature. (Houston Bryan Roberson) Pages 1–13..... Read More about Theological Kernels: A Question-Book of Bible Doctrines and Baptist Church Polity, with Scripture...
First edition of this autobiography of this Alabamian and influential Southern educator and “planter” considered the “Mother of Black Lutheranism in Central Alabama.” Young is..... Read More about Light in the Dark Belt. The Story of Rosa Young as Told by Herself
Single issue of the New-York Tribune giving extensive front-page coverage of the Fenian Rising in Ireland in February and March 1867, rebelling against British rule..... Read More about New York City St. Patrick’s Day Riot; Fenian Uprising of 1867 in Ireland; Black Suffrage in:]...
First edition. Collection of poems by New Jersey resident Bertha (née) Vreeland DeLazier. Most of DeLazier’s poems were written during the 1920s and 1930s. This..... Read More about Poems — by Bertha DeLazier. (Association copy
Early issue of an important political and cultural journal focused on civil rights, published from 1961 to 1985. Freedomways was founded by Louis Burnham, Edward..... Read More about Freedomways, a Quarterly Review of the Negro Freedom Movement. Vol. 2, No. 3
An unusually fine copy of Du Bois’s landmark work in which his prophecy is presented: that the problem of the 20th century is that of..... Read More about The Souls of Black Folk. Essays and Sketches. Printed music within text
File of correspondence to and from Cash Papworth Premium Company, importers, perfumers, and chemists of Syracuse, New York. The letters and related enclosures discuss the..... Read More about 1909 - 1910 Correspondence involving Cash Papworth Premium Company, Perfumers and Chemists;...
The front page reprints “an eloquent production” — a lengthy “Address to Females” from the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Muskingham County, Ohio: Nor are we..... Read More about Antislavery Newspaper with an “Address to Females” from the Female Anti-Slavery Society of...
A pencil inscription reads: “My great uncle Gus Herkenham Captain on the Hudson R. [River] for over 50 years.” This is Augustus “Gus” Herkenham (1830/31-1905)..... Read More about Carte-de-visite of Hudson River Ship Captain Augustus “Gus” Herkenham
Scarce religious text printed as a memorial upon the death of Garrat Noel Bleecker (1815–1853) and written by the then-pastor of Amity Street Baptist Church..... Read More about Worship At Work. A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of the Late Garrat Noel Bleecker of New York
Well-illustrated history of the Golden Age of American carousel horses, from the 1890s to the 1920s, including both historical images and over 600 color photographs..... Read More about Painted Ponies. American Carousel Art
First edition. Collection of black and white art photographs by Lithuanian-American Algimantas Kezys (1928–2015). A Jesuit priest, Kezys studied at Loyola University and was the..... Read More about Foto Kompozicijos. [Published in America as Form and Content
First edition. The anthropologist Margaret Mead described this photo documentary and essay as an “astute staccato comment on present and needed changes in sensory modes..... Read More about They Became What They Beheld
After Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), the Czech painter and decorative artist. A lovely color lithographic poster hand reproduced in 1969 by Henri Deschamps, the Mourlot Studio’s..... Read More about Lorenzaccio. Piece en V Actes et un Epilogue D’ Alfred de Musset. Adaptation de M. Armand...
After Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), the Czech painter and decorative artist. A lovely color lithographic poster hand reproduced in 1969 by Henri Deschamps, the Mourlot Studio’s..... Read More about Tragique Histoire D’Hamlet Prince of Danemark. Sarah Bernhardt. (After) Alphonse Mucha, 1969
The “story of a young boy, who in his quest for bravery brought the first horse to his people, the Antelope Band, a Plains Indian..... Read More about Bringer of the Mystery Dog
Written by two white composers, this ragtime song first appeared in an illustrated newspaper supplement. For this supplement, a grotesque cover art illustration was used..... Read More about Ambolena Snow. An Afro-American Military Band Ballad [cover title
First edition of this first collection of the “Simple” short stories written about the everyday lives of Harlemites. Given by Hughes, in the year of..... Read More about Simple Speaks His Mind. (Inscribed
Signed publicity photograph of Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993), showing him holding his iconic trumpet with its bell bent upward. Gillespie is noted for his bebop style..... Read More about Dizzy Gillespie Signed Photograph, Jazz Trumpeter and Composer
First edition. From the collection of Anna and Thomas O. Johnson with their bookplate. Thomas O. Johnson was a Harlem dentist and a friend to..... Read More about The Gift of Black Folk. Negroes in the Making of America. (Presentation Copy?
This 1874 speech in support of the Civil Rights Act was the “defining moment” in the career of Robert Brown Elliott (1842–1884), a two-term Black..... Read More about Civil Rights. Speech of Hon. Robert B. Elliott, of South Carolina, in the House of...
Early twentieth century wall map of Baltimore and its environs including parts of Baltimore, Howard, and Anne Arundel Counties, Maryland. Baltimore City, its harbor, and..... Read More about Flamm’s New Map of Baltimore and Vicinity Compiled from Latest Records and Official Surveys
