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(BUSINESS.) Collection of calendars produced for Black businesses and consumers. 32 items, ranging from 7 to 26 inches in height; a few worn, but condition generally strong. Various places, 1913-1999
Calendar titled "Thoroughbreds," 13 x 8¼ inches, featuring a Gatchel & Manning illustration of an elegant woman and her horse, and an A.J. Barton quotation about "the growing element of self-respecting, self-supporting, right-thinking, right-living Negroes." Philadelphia, 1915.
Calendar featuring photograph of unidentified baby, 7½ x 6½ inches. No place, 1913.
5 calendars produced for mid-20th century businesses, all 12 x 9 inches or larger:
Smith's Funeral Home, featuring a photograph of a Booker T. Washington sculpture. Gary, IN, 1946.
Ideal Shoe Repair Shop; worn and lacking January sheet. White Plains, NY, 1952
Stan's Grocery, featuring a photograph of the proprietor's baby. 1655 Third Street, [Richmond, CA?], 1958.
Provident Home Industrial Mutual Life Insurance Company, on 6 unbound double-sided sheets, 19 x 13 inches, with a biographical section for each month headed "Little Known History of the Negro"; moderate wear, several short repairs. Philadelphia, 1960.
Roberts Retail Wine and Liquor Store, featuring a glamorous portrait of the proprietors. 501 West 142nd St., New York, 1964.
6 calendars produced for businesses and organizations, 1970s and 1980s, including: Potter Pharmacy, Waukegan, IL, 1974; Father Divine, 1975; Lee's Funeral Home, White Plains, NY, 1975; Omega Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Philadelphia, 1984; Johnson Cosmetics & Hair Care, Lake Lawn, WI, 1987; Bruce Funeral Home, St. Louis, MO, lacking calendar leaves.
18 calendars commemorating Black history and culture, 1960s-1990s, including Negro Heritage Library Calendar, Yonkers, NY, 1965; Great American Negro Calendar, 1971; Carver Federal Savings & Loan, Blacks in the American Business Tradition, New York, 1973; Woodlawn Sketches, Washington, DC, 1977; Schlitz Calendar of Great Black American Athletes, 26 x 18 inches on 12 bound sheets, rolled, Milwaukee, 1978; Stroh Brewing Company, Afro-American Historical Calendar, Detroit, 1982; Arhoolie Blues Classics Calendar, 1985; America's Black Heritage Calendar, 1988; The Afro-American Historical Calendar, no place, for 1979, 1987, and 1988; The Time is Now (photos by Lee Abramson), 1986; Carver Federal Savings Bank, African Explorers, Navigators and Pioneers Calendar, 1993; Budweiser Great Kings & Queens of Africa, 1993; Coors Heritage Calendar, 1993; Miller Gallery of Greats: The Performers, 1995; Institutionalization of the Maafa Calendar, 1998; Black by Popular Demand's Negro Leagues Baseball Shops, Maryland, 1999.
"The Little Black Book 1980 to 1981." 70 pages including full calendar pages for each month. [New York], 1980.
