Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(BLACK RADICALISM--GARVEY, MARCUS.) Group photograph of the Black Cross Nurses of the U.N.I.A. Albumen print 7-1/8x9-3/4 inches; with a hand-colored pan-African flag in the center of the group. (New York, circa 1921)

Additional Details

an evocative image of the Universal Negro Improvement Association's "Black Cross Nurses," seated on a cobble-stoned street in upper Harlem, probably observing a parade. We have placed the location of this photograph by a partial view of the sign on one of the buildings.