May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 155

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BLACK PANTHERS.) The Angela Davis Committee Presents "A Family Affair" Dance . . . at Blue Horizon Ballroom. Poster, 22 x 14 inches, in black on rainbow background, printed on light board; minor wear including closed 1/2-inch puncture in text area, a few light scratches and printing flaws, minor soiling. [Philadelphia]: Lew Allen Printing Nook, 17 December 1971

Additional Details

This benefit was held a year into the imprisonment of Angela Davis. The venue, the Blue Horizon Ballroom in Philadelphia, was best known as a boxing arena, and this poster is reminiscent of boxing posters of the period. The musical entertainment was a band called "The Family."