(ART) 300 Years of Black History

Sale 2377 - Lot 172

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(ART.) 300 Years of Black History [supplied title]. Sepia toned poster, made from a photographic montage, 35 x 45-3/4 inches, some light wear and slight wrinkle along the edges; faint signs of early tape repair to the blank margin running along the edges of the piece. Wil Lai Enterprises, Menlo Park, California, 1972

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An unusually creative historical poster, including portraits and vignettes of virtually every important figure in black history for the last few centuries. Everyone from Reverend Richard Allen of the Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church to David Walker and his "Appeal"; with images of people one does not usually encounter on such historical posters. Long time Howard University librarian Dorothy Porter, for example; or publisher T. Thomas Fortune, naval hero Dorie Miller, and Thurgood Marshal. The first example of this we have seen.