![[Collection of Charles L. Blockson Black History Publishing Ephemera]. Inc Portfolio Associates,...](/images/noimage-req.png)
[Collection of Charles L. Blockson Black History Publishing Ephemera].
Small group of advertising ephemera for noted African-Americana book collector and author Charles L. Blockson’s book Pennsylvania’s Black History (1975) and a copy of an.....
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![[Ray Charles Promotional Music Concert Program]. Elaine Jesmer, 1930–2004, Tangerine Record...](/pictures/thumb/3728536_1.jpg?v=1554831534)
[Ray Charles Promotional Music Concert Program].
Promotional music concert program for blind African-American singer, songwriter, composer, and pianist Ray Charles (1930–2004), issued by his record publisher, Tangerine Record Corp. and distributor...
[Set of 12 Racist Chromolithographic Die Cuts:] Ten Little N****r Boys went out to dine, One choked his little self, and then there were Nine. ...
Complete set of 12 chromolithographic die-cuts depicting hapless African Americans, each die-cut reproducing a poetical verse from or based on the racist poem “Ten Little...
![[Depression-Era Tuskegee Institute Circular, TLS, Tuition Leaflet]. Herbert F. Smith, Tuskegee...](/pictures/thumb/3728527_1.jpg?v=1554822729)
[Depression-Era Tuskegee Institute Circular, TLS, Tuition Leaflet].
Depression-era correspondence from officers of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute addressed to Herbert F. Smith, a former student there. Here, a 1933 circular letter from...
![A.W. Scott, Magnetic Healer and Test Medium ... Boston ... [trade card]. A W. Scott.](/pictures/thumb/3728520_1.jpg?v=1554937770)
A.W. Scott, Magnetic Healer and Test Medium ... Boston ... [trade card].
Trade card for Mr. A.W. Scott of Boston, spiritualist and “magnetic healer.” From his Washington Street establishment, Scott offered “Hot Salt Baths for Cure of.....
[Mutual Relief Society of Rochester, N.Y. Archive].
Archive of notices of assessment issued by The Mutual Relief Society of Rochester, N.Y. Founded in 1879, the society was what was termed an “assessment.....
[L.G. Grund Co. Botanic Medicine Group].
A 20-page pamphlet with a small group of ephemera issued by L.G. Grund Co. of Philadelphia, wholesale buyers of medicinal roots, barks, herbs, leaves, seeds.....
![[C. 1930s Cairo, Egypt Tourist Map and Perfume Shop Ephemera]. Ahmed Soliman, Abou Taleb El-Helw,...](/pictures/thumb/3727756_1.jpg?v=1537910631)
[C. 1930s Cairo, Egypt Tourist Map and Perfume Shop Ephemera].
English-language tourist ephemera from 1930s Cairo, Egypt with a focus on exotic Middle-Eastern goods and all the amenities of home in a foreign city. Of...
![[M.I.T., Cross-Dressing:] Tech Show 1927 “West is East.”. Philip K. Bates, G. Elbern Hopkins.](/pictures/thumb/3727733_1.jpg?v=1538508662)
[M.I.T., Cross-Dressing:] Tech Show 1927 “West is East.”
Theater program for West is East, a two-act musical comedy produced in 1927 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and featuring an all-male cast including...
The Negro Poets by Truda Weil. Thursday Afternoon ... 1932 ... The Literature Division of the Woman’s Club.
Advertising card for a public reading of African American poetry, given by Truda T. Weil at the Woman’s Club of Reading, Pennsylvania. The program consisted.....
The Reel Smith College.
From “Freshman” to “Sophomore”—a prospectus for Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, cleverly designed to imitate a strip of movie film with each “cell” depicting a......
![[Envelope with Inset Miniature Tintype Portrait of Isabella Jane Hawthorn]. Isabella Jane Hawthorn.](/pictures/thumb/3727513_1.jpg?v=1535409018)
[Envelope with Inset Miniature Tintype Portrait of Isabella Jane Hawthorn].
Here, a “gem” tintype portrait of young Isabella Jane Hawthorn, with her hand-tinted rosy cheeks, is conjoined with another Victorian custom of calling cards and.....
![[Victorian Calling Card for Mrs. John Mowle with Inset Miniature Tintype or “Gem” Portrait]....](/pictures/thumb/3727109_1.jpg?v=1535409018)
[Victorian Calling Card for Mrs. John Mowle with Inset Miniature Tintype or “Gem” Portrait].
Miniature tintype photographs, also called “gem” photos for their diminutive size, were a popular and inexpensive photographic format in the Victorian era. Here a portrait.....
![[World Expositions: Pocket Watches, Watchmakers:] Enrique Grandjean y Ca. Henri Grandjean, Cie,...](/pictures/thumb/3726731_1.jpg?v=1534362451)
[World Expositions: Pocket Watches, Watchmakers:] Enrique Grandjean y Ca.
Colorful and beautifully printed ephemera from Swiss luxury watchmakers Henri Grandjean & Cie.—here Enrique Grandjean y Ca.—of Le Locle in the Canton of Neuchâtel. The.....
![[African-Americana:] Class Day ’95. Lincoln University. Lincoln University.](/pictures/thumb/3726691_1.jpg?v=1534362442)
[African-Americana:] Class Day ’95. Lincoln University.
1895 Class Day program of music and oratory from Lincoln University, an historically black university in Pennsylvania founded in 1854. The day’s activities included morning...
Women of Fiction. Life’s Gilbert Calendar for 1906.
Oversized calendar with tipped on color plates depicting women literary characters by American illustrator and poster artist C. Allan Gilbert. The suite of plates depict...
[C.1880 Uncle Sam Satirical “Greenback” Political Bank Note].
Political memorabilia satirizing the “Greenback” Party likely issued during the U.S. Presidential election of 1880. The small, printed leaf imitates the shape and design of.....
[1885–1910 YMCA Manuscript Minute Books from Auburn, New York with Related Letters, Manuscripts and Ephemera].
Two large ledger books containing handwritten minutes and reports from the Young Men’s Christian Association or YMCA of Auburn, New York, 1885–1910. These two separate.....
Revolutionary Calendar Dedicated to the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution… [caption title].
Chromolithographic calendar commemorating the American Revolution printed by Boston lithographers, L. Prang & Co. The calendar was designed at the New York School of Applied...
Puffs of Wisdom.
Advertising pamphlet for P. Lorrilard & Co. tobacco in the form of a vade mecum or pocket reference book with practical business information and sound...
![[The Texas Terrors:] American Football ... Souvenir Programme. Merchant Navy Day Appeal Committee.](/pictures/thumb/3724997_1.jpg?v=1534362297)
[The Texas Terrors:] American Football ... Souvenir Programme.
Colorful, illustrated World War II program for a U. S. Army demonstration game of American-rules football, played “Somewhere in Australia.” The game was played between.....
[The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873 Promotional Ephemera].
An ephemeral record of the brief, exploited lives of the Fairy Sisters, two diminutive performers often touted as the smallest persons in the world. The...
1897–1901 German and Austrian Belle Époque Musical Concert Programs; with related Ephemera; 72 items.
Classical music and opera concerts and popular musical and singing performances were favorite leisure pursuits in Belle Époque Germany and Austria. These 61 almost all...
International Exhibition of 1876. Opening Ceremonies. Order of Exercises, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, May 10th, 1876 [with:] United States Centennial Commission Invitation [with ticket:] Admit to the Opening Ceremonies of the International Exhibition 1876. [with two tickets:] United States International Exhibition…Package Ticket.
Almost like being there —not souvenirs or recollections— but five primary and immediate artifacts from the United States’ first world’s fair and its celebration of.....
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