![[New Orleans] 1925 Standard Specifications for Grades of Southern Pine Lumber. Southern Pine Association.](/images/noimage-req.png)
1925 Book of technical specifications for grading, cutting, and fabricating Southern pine lumber for construction and architectural use. The illustrated booklet was prepared by the... Read More
An excellent copy. Baltimore: J.H. Furst, 1931. First Edition. Frontis, 415pp., top-edge gilt. Publisher’s maroon and gilt-lettered cloth. Illustrated with numerous plates. A near fine... Read More
Cable addresses the issue of Southern African-Americans and the discrimination and disadvantages they faced in the early Jim Crow era. “Only this: To bring the... Read More
![White Man’s Burden. A Personal Testament. [Presentation Copy]. Ruth Smith.](/pictures/thumb/3727402_1.jpg?v=1538422348)
Kansas native, Ruth Smith, a white woman school teacher of Nordic descent, removes to Alabama to teach in an all black school for girls. In... Read More
First edition of this 1922 work describing Baptist missionaries and their efforts in the South to improve the lives of African Americans through education, religion... Read More
First Edition in the rare pictorial dust jacket, profusely illustrated from original photographs. Woodson, “Father of Black History,” authors an exhaustive study of social and... Read More
The book’s Preface succinctly distills the contents of this book: “A semi-autobiographical sketch of the writer [an African American], setting forth his early life in... Read More
Work: “This volume contains over 250 selections. Includes a chapter which gives special attention to the music for the songs, and a chapter on the... Read More
An important gathering of folk songs, often citing where from reported, and often with detailed scholarly and explanatory notes. The author was a Duke University... Read More
First Edition of this scholarly interpretation of black life in the South in the context of its indigenous music. Chapel Hill: The University of North... Read More
![Negro Slave Songs in the United States. [First Edition]. Miles Mark Fisher.](/pictures/thumb/3727285_1.jpg?v=1538433153)
First Edition, and a very pleasing copy, of Fisher’s study of the haunting melodies and swinging rhythms of African American slave songs and spirituals of... Read More
One of a series of academic studies of African Americans published by Atlanta University and edited by African-American sociologist and academic, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)... Read More
First Edition of a Ph.D. dissertation studying black farmers in the American South, including eastern Texas. Includes much on race, geographic distribution of black farmers... Read More
Preface: “This clerico-political study seeks to discover the mind of the Northern Clergy: their ideas, opinions, convictions and attitudes toward the South from 1860 through... Read More
![[Atlanta Exposition, 1895] Buffalo Greets the South. Richmond C. Hill.](/pictures/thumb/3727085_1.jpg?v=1536183478)
Illustrated pamphlet touting the “Commercial, Industrial, Shipping, Convention and Electrical Center” that was 1895 Buffalo, New York. The pamphlet was produced for distribution at The... Read More
From the publishers: “The average North Carolinian of 1860 had seen drastic changes during his lifetime. He had seen the large planter growing more and... Read More
![Ante-Bellum North Carolina. A Social History. [Presentation Copy]. Guion Griffis Johnson.](/pictures/thumb/3727238_1.jpg?v=1537471784)
First edition of this comprehensive and early look at antebellum North Carolina. Inscribed and autographed by the author, thus: “To Gerald W. Johnson. This is... Read More
Published after Mandingo and Drum, the continuing story of the plantation, Falconhurst, and the ruthless themes of slave-breeding and slavery in the antebellum South as... Read More
Fourth of July address delivered in the immediate aftermath of the Nullification Crisis by Thomas S. Grimké, South Carolina lawyer, education reformer, and peace advocate... Read More
Biingual, this 19th-century Texas trade card solicited German-speaking immigrants to stay at the Chicago House. The Chicago House was a hotel in Galveston, Texas. Emigrants... Read More
Membership Certificate blank for a duly elected “Active Member of Independent Perseverance Fire Company, No. 2, of the town of Natchitoches” in Louisiana. Fittingly, the... Read More
![[In Manuscript, Printed Circular Letter:] Macon, Georgia, 9th August, 1832. Gentlemen, The undersigned have been appointed a Committee of Correspondence to give effect to the subjoined resolutions. They avail themselves…to request your cordial co-operation at this interesting crisis…. Various.](/pictures/thumb/145341_1.jpg?v=1534362277)
This August 1832 Macon, Georgia circular letter calls on the legislature of Georgia to threaten to nullify or resist protective tariff laws of the United... Read More
